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• RM Taragin – The Other Confession – calls for collective Yom Kippur teshuvah, urging greater emunah, historical awareness, gratitude for sacrifice, humility, restrained speech and recognition of Jewish shared destiny
• ‘Nobody can replace him,’ Jewish leaders say, marking year since death of OU executive Rabbi Moshe Hauer – in advance of Rabbi Moshe Hauer’s first yahrzeit, Jewish leaders remembered the late OU executive as a humble mentor, Torah teacher and unifying communal presence
• ‘I can hit my wife in my sleep’: rabbi who identified Oct. 7 victims reveals his battle with PTSD – Rabbi Menachem Perl describes developing PTSD after identifying October 7 victims at Camp Shura, seeking psychiatric treatment and using a service dog
• Strange but maybe good for the kosher industry – Antisemites are eating kosher now — to avoid goyslop – antisemitic conspiracy influencers increasingly portray kosher certification as evidence of secret healthier Jewish food, sometimes using the claim to market dubious supplements
• Modern Orthodox Jewish day schools planning to pray outside NYC mayor’s residence on Friday – SAR, Ramaz and Kehilath Jeshurun planned Friday morning prayers outside Gracie Mansion to express Jewish identity, Zionism and concerns about safety in New York
• Rabbi Sacks’s vision for Immanuel College is now more relevant than ever – Immanuel College plans to revive Rabbi Jonathan Sacks’s educational vision: developing globally minded Jewish students prepared for leadership, responsibility and engagement with contemporary challenges
• TorahWeb Expands: Now Includes Seforim by Rav Schachter and Shiurim By Rav Twersky – TorahWeb added downloadable PDFs of 13 seforim by Rabbi Hershel Schachter and more than 1,300 Rabbi Mayer Twersky schmoozes dating to 1993