Yes New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is a Jew. He is a member of the Orthodox community on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and a graduate of Yeshiva University, class of 1965.William Rapfogel, the longtime CEO of New York’s Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, was arrested in September 2013 for involvement in a kickbacks scheme. He pleaded guilty to helping fleece more than $9 million from the charity, including $1 million that he pocketed himself, and was sentenced last July to 3 ½ years in prison and ordered to pay $3 million in restitution.
Rapfogel’s wife, Judy Rapfogel, is Silver’s chief of staff. After her husband’s arrest, Judy Rapfogel claimed she had no knowledge of her husband’s criminal malfeasance, and she remained on Silver’s staff.
Silver and William Rapfogel lived in the same neighborhood and went to the same shul, the Bialystoker Synagogue on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. The two men often sat together in the sanctuary on Shabbat morning, though in recent years Silver began going to the early minyan on Saturday mornings, a neighborhood insider who declined to be identified told JTA.
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| January 21, there was a devastating fire in Edgewater. • 240 of the 408 units in the Avalon community were destroyed, permanently displacing more than 500 residents. • Over 500 residents from the Avalon complex's adjacent building were displaced. • Hundreds of our neighbors lost what they own. • Hundreds of the town's children are without necessities and need your help. The Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey in coordination with the Jewish Family Service of Bergen and North Hudson are collecting school supplies, toys, games, small houseware appliances, new socks, new underwear (in original package), toiletries, diapers, feminine hygiene products, and pet food for our neighbors displaced by the horrific fire. We are also collecting Gift Cards- Visa/ Amex, Target, Pathmark, Home Goods, Trader Joe's, Bed Bath and Beyond, Pet Valu). There will be two collection sites with donations being accepted during the following hours: Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey 50 Eisenhower Drive Paramus, NJ 07652 Monday-Thursday 9am-5pm; Friday 9am-2pm For more information contact 201-820-3947 or email bethf@jfnnj.org Jewish Family Service of Bergen and North Hudson 1485 Teaneck Road Teaneck, NJ 07666 Tuesday, Thursday 9am-5pm Monday, Wednesday 9am-8pm Friday 9am-2:30pm For more information contact 201-837-9090 or email info@jfsbergen.org For those in need, Jewish Family Service of Bergen and North Hudson is serving as a distribution center. |
Soul Doctor is the story of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach’s life as interpreted in a musical play. It's soon closing a run at the Actor's Temple Theatre. Go see it if you can. It is a wonderful play. [(212) 239-6200. ACTORS TEMPLE THEATRE, 339 W 47th Street, New York, NY 10036 (between 8th and 9th Avenues)]For anyone who has ever been affected by having encountered Shlomo Carlebach in person or has been deeply moved by his music, this is a performance that you surely will enjoy. For everyone else, “Soul Doctor” is a story about a complicated man who changed Jewish life by doing Jewish outreach in a most unusual way...I add a few comments to these excellent reviews. Carlebach's music is often played at Jewish weddings and sung in synagogue services. Professional musicians and cantors that I know have mixed feelings about his contributions. Many ordinary religious Jews today admire his tunes and are drawn to his work, years after his death in 1994.
“Soul Doctor” is a play with strong performances, incredible melody, and a moving story about a man whose music continues to revolutionize Jewish life and culture to this day.
“Soul Doctor” is playing at the Circle in the Square Theatre in New York.
No, yoga is not Jewish, it is Hindu in origin.Hindu Group Stirs a Debate Over Yoga’s Soul
By PAUL VITELLO
Yoga is practiced by about 15 million people in the United States, for reasons almost as numerous — from the physical benefits mapped in brain scans to the less tangible rewards that New Age journals call spiritual centering. Religion, for the most part, has nothing to do with it.
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