Sunday, September 16, 2007

Dei'ah veDibur - Information & Insight - NEWS

Dei'ah veDibur - Information & Insight - NEWS: " diverse crowd: bnei Torah, baalei battim, and baalei teshuva alike live and daven together in harmony. Rabbi Menachem Zupnick, one of the rabbonim in town, noted that both Rabbi Nachman Bulman and Rabbi Dovid Gottleib of Ohr Somayach, were amazed at the homogeneous community that exists in Passaic. 'Rabbi Bulman said that at Ohr Somayach they didn't believe such a community could exist in chutz la'aretz, with baalei teshuva and other frum people living together so harmoniously,' said Rabbi Zupnick. 'He was very impressed with what he saw here in Passaic.' Rabbi Mordechai Becher, formerly of Ohr Somayach and a current Gateways lecturer, who resides in Passaic, noted, 'At one table in the shul, at a shiur or in a chavrusa, one can find graduates of Brisk, Mir and Telz diverse crowd: bnei Torah, baalei battim, and baalei teshuva alike live and daven together in harmony. Rabbi Menachem Zupnick, one of the rabbonim in town, noted that both Rabbi Nachman Bulman and Rabbi Dovid Gottleib of Ohr Somayach, were amazed at the homogeneous community that exists in Passaic. 'Rabbi Bulman said that at Ohr Somayach they didn't believe such a community could exist in chutz la'aretz, with baalei teshuva and other frum people living together so harmoniously,' said Rabbi Zupnick. 'He was very impressed with what he saw here in Passaic.' Rabbi Mordechai Becher, formerly of Ohr Somayach and a current Gateways lecturer, who resides in Passaic, noted, 'At one table in the shul, at a shiur or in a chavrusa, one can find graduates of Brisk, Mir and Telz"

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