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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
How do you raise children? What does Jewish Philosophy. On Shabbat itself, the Midrasha, a high-level women’s
it mean to get a job? Am I a liberal or as Assistant Rabbi at Borehamwood learning program, catering primarily to
a conservative? Being there for them Shul, Moshe would give a high-level those who have returned from learning
during these turbulent years was a shiur before the Torah reading. Then in seminaries in Israel with also high
huge zechut. as Borehamwood Youth rabbinic cou- level women’s shiurim for the broader
ple, we would host 30 teenagers in our
“We never told anybody what to be house for Seudah Shlishit. We were community.
or how to behave. We gently tried to not done yet! Moshe would lead the The Glicksbergs, through these mul-
push them out of their comfort zone most amazing discussions for adults in tiple roles, touched the lives of many
and make them think about their a shiur on “Tzurba M’Rabanan” (prac- hundreds of families during the course
choices. It might be easy to convince tical Halacha). On Sundays, we ended of their multifaceted shlichut in building
some students to stay religious (and the weekend playing foosball, football the community, Beit Midrash learning
push off intermarriage for one more or tennis with the community kids, piz-
generation), but their children will grow za in one hand and a tennis racket in and the Beth Din.
in a strongly Jewish environment only the other! Over the course of the entire The Glicksbergs recently returned after
if their parents themselves actually weekend, Moria also gave classes to six years in South Africa, and Rabbi
become passionate Jews. the women of the community making Glicksberg has been recently appoint-

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

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