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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

Gil Student

Rabbi Gil Student is the Editor of TorahMusings.com, a leading website on Orthodox Jewish scholarly subjects, and Director of the Halacha Commission of the Rabbinical Alliance of America. He writes a popular column on issues of Jewish law and thought featured in newspapers and magazines, including the Orthodox Union’s Jewish Action magazine, The Jewish Link, The Jewish Echo and The Jewish Vues. In the past, he has served as the President of the small Jewish publisher Yashar Books and as the Managing Editor of OU Press. Rabbi Student currently is serving his third term on the Executive Committee of the Rabbinical Council of America. He serves on the Editorial Board of Jewish Action magazine and the Board of OU Press. He has published five English books, the most recent titled Articles of Faith: Traditional Jewish Belief in the Internet Era, previously served as the Book Editor of Jewish Action magazine, and served as the American editor for Morasha Kehillat Yaakov: Essays in Honour of Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks.

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