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ARRIVALS

Rav Yonaton & Avital Hirschhorn Rav Moshe & Moria Gold Rav Dr. Shlomo and
Maryland, Baltimore Borehamwood, England Rabbanit Amira Glicksberg
Johannesburg, South Africa

“We were educators with Mizrachi/ “We have just returned from two years
OU-JLIC at the University of Maryland. of shlichut, where we wore so many Rav Glicksberg served as a Dayan on
The opportunity to affect Jews during ‘hats’. Over the course of a weekend, the Johannesburg Beth Din, the Senior
their transformative years as young we would first meet with students at Rabbi of the Mizrachi Yeshiva College
adults – after high school and after Finchley Synagogue where Moshe Shul and as the Rosh Kollel of the Beit
their Gap Year – was incredible. This helped run the Night Seder. The next Mordechai Campus Kollel.
is when they are shaping their views day we would meet with high school
on life: What does marriage look like? teens, teaching them Prophets and Rabbanit Amira founded and built
Jewish Philosophy. On Shabbat itself,
How do you raise children? What does as Assistant Rabbi at Borehamwood the Midrasha, a high-level women’s
it mean to get a job? Am I a liberal or Shul, Moshe would give a high-level learning program, catering primarily to
a conservative? Being there for them shiur before the Torah reading. Then as those who have returned from learning
during these turbulent years was a Borehamwood Youth rabbinic couple, in seminaries in Israel with also high
huge zechut. we would host 30 teenagers in our level women’s shiurim for the broader

“We never told anybody what to be or house for Seudah Shlishit. We were not community.
how to behave. We gently tried to push done yet! Moshe would lead the most The Glicksbergs, through these mul-
them out of their comfort zone and amazing discussions for adults in a tiple roles, touched the lives of many
make them think about their choices. shiur on “Tzurba M’Rabanan” (practical hundreds of families during the course
It might be easy to convince some Halacha). On Sundays, we ended the of their multifaceted shlichut in building
students to stay religious (and push off weekend playing foosball, football or the community, Beit Midrash learning
tennis with the community kids, pizza
intermarriage for one more generation), in one hand and a tennis racket in the and the Beth Din.
but their children will grow in a strongly other! Over the course of the entire The Glicksbergs recently returned after
Jewish environment only if their parents weekend, Moria also gave classes to six years in South Africa, and Rabbi
themselves actually become passion- the women of the community making Glicksberg has been recently appoint-
ate Jews. our experience truly holistic in nature. ed as the Rosh Beit Midrash of the

“It was all about building relationships “These roles helped us make an impact prestigious Machon Ariel/Harry Fisch-
and being their friends. So as you can on a far wider circle. We got to expe- el Institute which trains some of the
imagine, leaving the campus was not rience and influence the community in leading dayanim – rabbinic judges and
easy for us, as we had 400 children we all its beauty; the young children, the rabbis – fulfilling such roles in Israel and
felt so close to and so connected to.” students, and their parents.” around the world.

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