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Rabbi Hayyim Angel to give Shabbat morning talk July 19 in Teaneck, NJ

On Shabbat morning, July 19, Rabbi Hayyim Angel will give a class at Congregation Netivot Shalom in Teaneck, New Jersey. 

The talk is entitled, "Yirmiyahu 1:1-2:3:  Insights into the Haftarah We Just Read."

Free and open to the public. Services begin at 9:00 am, and the talk will be at the conclusion of services.

Congregation Netivot Shalom is located at 811 Palisade Avenue, Teaneck, New Jersey.

 

Galut, Self-Defense, and Political Zionism in the Halakhic Thought of Rabbi Ya’akov Moshe Toledano

In this article, Dr. Zvi Zohar presents and analyzes concepts of Galut and of the modern Return to Zion found in a seminal responsum composed by Rabbi Ya’akov Moshe Toledano (1880–1960). Born in Tiberias, scion of an illustrious Sephardic family in Meknès, Rabbi Toledano served as Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv from 1942 until his death.