Rabb's Blog - A Note from Netanya
08/09/2023 01:10:44 PM
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FROM THE RABBI'S DESK
Dear OZ family,
Greetings from Netanya!
After a week in Netanya, we have seen a microcosm of this great city in the bustling nighttime activity of Independence Square, the phenomenally busy Ir Yamim mall the Mediterranean shore as well as the Sanz- Klausenberg complex. Every imaginable type of Israeli is here and they all get along swimmingly.
The beach is shared wonderfully without...Read more...
Rabb's Blog - Eikev: Eat, Pray, Love
08/04/2023 11:30:18 AM
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FROM THE RABBI'S DESK
Greetings from Netanya,
This week’s Torah reading contains two of our most common daily Mitzvot, to pray and to bless God after eating. The essence of prayer is to recognize God’s majesty and to acknowledge God as the source of the fulfillment of all our needs.
Benching after food is an expression of gratitude for what we just ate, as well as for everything we have. God certainly...Read more...
Rebbetzin's Blog - For August 4
08/04/2023 10:58:57 AM
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FROM THE REBBETZIN'S DESK
Dear OZ Family,
Today's date, August 4th has great significance for me. It marks two years since I finished treatment for breast cancer. I am extremely grateful to Hashem for restoring me back to good health, and to the entire OZ community for your prayers, kindness and good wishes during that difficult time. I feel very blessed to be part of such a loving and supportive community.
To...Read more...
Rabbi’s Blog - Greetings from Israel
08/01/2023 04:30:43 PM
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Dear OZ family,
Greetings from Ben Gurion airport. Our trip to Israel began with a 5 hour delay and we left at the ungodly hour of 4:30 am. As I showed my boarding pass at the gate, I was flagged and asked to wait on the side as others were being boarded. Alisa joined me and we felt like unruly students sent to the principal’s office as everyone was...Read more...
Rabbi’s Blog - Trip to Netanya
07/31/2023 05:48:47 PM
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Dear OZ family,
Alisa and I are leaving this evening for Israel. We’ll be staying at Beit Elazraki in Netanya, a place that always fills us with inspiration and joy. Beit Elazraki is an Emunah facility that has grown recently by leaps and bounds, and has over the years, helped thousands of disadvantaged youth not...Read more...
Rebbetzin’s Blog - The Annual 5K Shlep
07/24/2023 05:10:18 PM
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FROM THE REBBETZIN'S DESK
Dear OZ Family,
By now many of you may have received an email from Rabin Medical Center asking you to participate in the NYC 5K Schlep 2023. This is a walk that the Rabbi and I have been participating in for over a decade. Two years ago, however, this event took on special significance to me because I had just finished treatment for...Read more...
Rabbi's Blog: 29 Tammuz - Rashi's Yahrzeit
07/18/2023 03:24:55 PM
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Dear OZ family,
Today, Tammuz 29, is Rashi’s 918th Yahrzeit. He left this world, according to tradition, while writing the word, “Tahor”, “Pure” in a revised Talmud commentary. Rashi revolutionized the study of Talmud and Bible in his straightforward and P’shat...Read more...
Rabbi's Blog: The #98
07/17/2023 02:24:23 PM
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Dear OZ family,
A few words about the # 98. That number comes up in Jewish sources in exactly opposite contexts, in blessings and curses. There are altogether, 98 curses in the Tochecha of Parshat Ki Tavo (Devarim 28), and they are all offset in the first week of marriage in...Read more...
Rabbi's Blog: Flattery of the Land
07/14/2023 09:49:43 AM
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Dear OZ family,
The fourth book of the Torah draws to a close with instructions for preparations to enter the promised land. Prominently listed among these instructions, are the laws of the inadvertent taking of life, and the cities of refuge.
The Torah warns not to allow murder to go unpunished. The murderer may not buy off the family of the...Read more...
Rabbi's Blog: Remembering Rene Slotkin z'l
06/29/2023 01:50:48 PM
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Dear OZ family,
Today. The 10th of Tammuz, is the first yahrzeit of Rene Slotkin, who was a fixture at Ohab Zedek for over 50 years. Rene had a significant impact on anyone he met. His life was suffused with Yirat Shamayim, and Ahavat Hashem, to the point of profound...Read more...
Rabbi's Blog: Sunrise, Sunset - Remembering Yossele Rosenblatt z'l
06/14/2023 11:31:22 AM
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Dear OZ family,
Today, the 25th of Sivan, is the 90th Yahrzeit of the most famous Chazan of all time, Yossele Rosenblatt, who served Ohab Zedek in the 116th Street location as well as at its current location on 95th Street. The Bimah at the center of our sanctuary has a place...Read more...
Rabbi's Blog: Chesed Continues Unabated...
06/08/2023 01:52:57 PM
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FROM THE DESK OF RABBI ALLEN SCHWARTZ
Dear OZ family,
In close to 40 years on the West Side I have experienced many different reasons to rally volunteers to help neighbors in need. I remember Hurricane Gloria on Sept. 27th 1985 (I didn’t have to look up that date, it was the day Chani was born). I...Read more...
Rabbi's Blog: Battery Park & Baseball
05/23/2023 12:11:56 PM
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FROM THE DESK OF RABBI ALLEN SCHWARTZ
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Dear OZ family,
I express profound gratitude on behalf of the shul for the beautiful dinner we had last evening at the Museum for Jewish Heritage in Battery Park. Every aspect of the evening was so well crafted and prepared by a large group of staff, committee chairs,...Read more...
Rabbi's Blog: Yom Yerushalayim Sameach!
05/18/2023 02:19:15 PM
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FROM THE DESK OF RABBI ALLEN SCHWARTZ
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Dear OZ family,
When David was a step away from death at the hands of the jealous King Saul, he fled to Nayot to hide with the prophet, Samuel. Chazal say that at that time, the two prepared all the plans for the Temple that would be soon be built. Even at a time of an extreme threat to his life David...Read more...
Rabbi's Blog: Notes from NORPAC
05/10/2023 04:23:26 PM
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FROM THE DESK OF RABBI ALLEN SCHWARTZ
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Dear OZ family,
I have a brief recess from meetings on Capitol Hill, and my next meeting is with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.
NORPAC has sent 600 people to lobby on behalf of Israel. Everyone we saw today has been very sympathetic with Israel’s...Read more...
Rabbi's Blog: Community, Calling, and Congress
04/28/2023 11:50:43 AM
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FROM THE DESK OF RABBI ALLEN SCHWARTZ
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Dear OZ family,
I have written recently about the profound Kiddush Hashem of the Dee family in Efrat. 5 lives were saved in Israel from organ donations, in the immediate aftermath of Lucy Dee’s murder, and Rabbi Leo...Read more...
Rabbi's Blog: Yom Ha'Atzmaut
04/26/2023 12:01:17 PM
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Dear OZ family,
The prophet, Yirmiyahu predicted that when the exiles finally make their way back to Israel, that the miracle of such a return would eclipse the miracles of the redemption from Egypt. It is on the basis of...Read more...
Rabbi's Blog: Yom HaZikaron & Ha'Atzmaut
04/24/2023 11:05:24 AM
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Dear OZ family,
Tomorrow is one of the saddest days on the Jewish calendar in Israel. Yom Hazikaron is the day that the country mourns the loss of its brave soldiers who made the supreme sacrifice to help Israel gain and keep its independence. It is amazing how quickly...Read more...
Rabbi's Blog: Yom HaShoah + Film Link
04/18/2023 03:40:02 PM
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FROM THE DESK OF RABBI ALLEN SCHWARTZ
Dear OZ family,
I’d like to thank all of the members of our community who attended last night’s Yom HaShoah program. Mark Englander told the story of the Pentcho, a ship that saved over 500 souls from certain death in the Holocaust. I told a story in my...Read more...
Rabbi's Blog: Yom HaShoah & The Stories We Should Tell
04/17/2023 02:59:16 PM
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Dear OZ family,
In the immediate aftermath of Yetziat Mitzrayim, we were told to have ready answers for the questions children would ask about our experiences. Millennia of such experiences has taught us that the best way to impart such memories is through the...Read more...
Rabbi's Blog: Spring into Shabbos!
04/14/2023 11:30:46 AM
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FROM THE DESK OF RABBI ALLEN SCHWARTZ
Dear OZ family,
After so much Yom Tov, I hope we all have the energy to prepare for Shabbos. Spring and summer are in the air, the buds look beautiful and there are 3 pear trees on the Northeast corner of 93rd and Amsterdam. There is also a pear tree on the Southeast corner of Riverside and 75th St. We can recite one of the once-a-year blossom...Read more...
Rabbi’s Reminder: ‘Plag’ Minyan returns Friday
04/10/2023 10:56:38 AM
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Shalom friends,
This coming Friday we will commence our additional early Mincha/Maariv Minyan, known as 'Plag HaMincha.' This Friday the early Minyan will be at 6:00pm, and the Zman minyan at 7:25pm. You can check times at www.OZNY.org or download the OZ App at www.OZNY.org/GetApp. The Plag Minyan will meet Monday to Friday (the Zman all week) until the end of August.
Our sages connect our 3 daily prayers either...Read more...
Rabbi's Blog: Seder, Simcha, Sadness, Sefira
04/04/2023 10:44:53 AM
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FROM THE DESK OF RABBI ALLEN SCHWARTZ
Dear OZ family,
The Seder immediately bids us to put our money where our mouths are. When we spend a night glorifying in the pleasures of going from slavery to freedom, we begin the story-telling with invitations for those who are hungry and for those in need. This...Read more...
Rabbi's Blog: Spring Sentiments
03/16/2023 10:42:03 AM
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Join us for Shabbat HaGadol: www.OZNY.org/Luncheon
Dear OZ family,
Two weeks ago, an Israeli family of 9 children had their entire world overturned when a murderous terrorist rammed and killed two brothers at a bus stop, and seriously wounded their father, Avraham Paley.
We can’t imagine the...Read more...
Rabbi's Blog: Coin & Completion
03/10/2023 01:02:21 PM
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Dear OZ family,
The Parsha this week begins with a call for the donations of a half-shekel to the Mishkan fund. This was a coin almost exactly the size of a US nickel, and by way of comparison, we see a worker’s salary of room, board and clothing for a year together with a salary of ten shekels, at the end...Read more...
Rabbi's Blog: Cursed is Haman, Blessed is Mordechai
03/03/2023 01:27:21 PM
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Dear OZ family,
On Friday, I call dozens of Israelis early in the morning. I speak with many OZ olim, bestow Shabbos blessings on children and grandchildren, hear words of Torah from students, share birthday and anniversary wishes, and more. Some of the people I spoke to today are profoundly concerned with Israel’s immediate future, but for most...Read more...
Rabbi's Blog: Perseverance & Petition
03/01/2023 07:09:29 PM
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OZ PURIM PAGE: WWW.OZNY.ORG/PURIM
Dear OZ family,
A few days ago I wrote about Miriam Feig who was hidden as a child in a monastery during World War II. Remembrance of such upheaval in her early years moved Miriam...Read more...
Rabbi's Blog: Remembering Miriam Feig z'l
02/27/2023 12:04:10 PM
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OZ PURIM PAGE: WWW.OZNY.ORG/PURIM
Dear OZ family,
This past Shabbos was Miriam Feig’s 8th Yahrzeit. I have written about her often, and it was quite appropriate that we connect her to this past Shabbos. As you...Read more...
Rabbi's Blog: Jury Duty, Israel, Mazel Tov, and Bina
02/22/2023 03:51:26 PM
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OZ PURIM PAGE: WWW.OZNY.ORG/PURIM
Dear OZ family,
I was drafted this week for Federal jury duty. After 25 dafim of Gemara, I was pleased to learn that the defendant in my case settled and we were all sent home....Read more...
Rabbi's Blog: Refuah for Bina + Israel Forum
02/20/2023 12:11:51 PM
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Dear OZ family,
You may recall that during Covid, the Wall Street Journal printed a story about a woman named Bina, who takes a daily stroll in in Central Park, reads Torah and recites Tehillim on the park benches, and squeezes every bit of goodness and joy out of daily activity. Bina was on the kindertransport as a child, that spared her the fate shared by so many of her family members....Read more...
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