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Decentralizing the authority for conversion to local rabbinic courts means potentially contradictory standards that we in the US are glad to be rid of.

“We wrote the letter not as an attack but as a policy disagreement and a concern about the law as written," said OU vice president Rabbi Moshe Hauer.

Decentralizing the authority for conversion to local rabbinic courts means potentially contradictory standards that we in the US are glad to be rid of

At Congregation Zichron Mordechai in Teaneck, a line starts to form every Shabbat after the minyanim with people who want to greet Rabbi Michael Taubes and ask him a question. “When you ask him a shaila, he is gentle in his message,” said shul president Joe Berkowitz. “He presents it very carefully, thoughtfully and kindly.

MTA is proud of sophomore Basil Edelstein, who was honored at the Jewish Learning Experience of Bergen County Dinner on Motzei Shabbos, November 13. “JLE is a wonderful organization that provides spiritual educational support for those wishing for a deeper connection to Judaism,” shared Basil. “I have worked with JLE since 2017, helping to run their important programming, which includes Megilla reading, Tu B’Shvat sedarim and model Pesach sedarim, both in-person and on Zoom during the pa...

By Pearl Markovitz | January 28, 2021 Sam Kaplan and wife, Marsha, have been Teaneck residents for the past 42 years. Between davening at Beth Aaron, Shaare Tefila and Chabad, and this year, the Trafalgar Minyan, they have come to know a great many Teaneckers. In 1985, the Kaplans and two friends now residing in Israel, Jeff Glazer and Aaron Mandelbaum, realized there was a “need and a niche” for bringing local Jews closer to Judaism. Thus the Jewish Learning Experience (JLE)...