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• Special-Needs Bar Mitzvahs Bring Joy to a Long Island Synagogue - Rabbi in Dix Hills, N.Y., eager to meet the boys’ touching requests for a ceremony November 27, 2019
  For parents of children with special needs, day-to-day activities come with a host of challenges. Balancing various therapies can eat up hours and energy. When it comes time for the traditional Jewish rite of passage for boys, a bar mitzvah, it sometimes seems like an insurmountable challenge. “I had assumed that all my children would […]
• Stranded by California Wildfires, Rabbi, Yeshivah Boys, Learn Torah and Offer Tefillin - Stuck in wildfires, they find an opportunity to help others November 1, 2019
  Rabbi Chaim Bryski was carpooling a group of yeshivah boys, his son among them, from Thousand Oaks, Calif., to their school in Los Angeles this week when he found road after road closed because of the raging Getty Fire. They spent six hours on the highway before being forced to turn off the road. The […]
• As California Fires Rage, Postponed Funeral, Support for Firefighters and Residents - Rabbis reach out as tragedy and loss spread across the state October 31, 2019
  As the Kincade Fire in Northern California continues to grow to 76,000 acres, Rabbi Mendel Wolvovsky attempted to bring some relief to weary residents and emergency personnel on Tuesday morning, offering homemade breakfast and conversation even as he had to reschedule a congregant’s funeral because the local cemetery could not accommodate them with fires raging […]