The following are edited extracts from letters received from this month’s Montefiore semicha graduates. I am moved nearly to tears as I think of the opportunity we have been afforded through the generosity of the Montefiore Endowment. The four years spent in the kollel enabled me to learn Torah to… Continue reading
The Montefiore Endowment is pleased to announce that the following three students have recently graduated and received semicha Yore-Yore. Aaron Lovat, Sam Millunchik and Jeremy Meyer. The Endowment congratulates the three new rabbis on their achievement and wishes them every success in the future. Continue reading
The Montefiore Endowment congratulates two of its semicha graduates on their recent appointment to responsible positions in the community and wishes them every success. Rabbi Steven Dansky will shortly be taking up an appointment as Senior Minister of the Redbridge United Hebrew Congregation; and Rabbi Yecheskel Mandlebaum will shortly be… Continue reading
At last, firm documentary evidence has become readily available in English as well as in Hebrew of a substantial Jewish presence in the land that eventually became the modern state of Israel, dating from the century before the Balfour Declaration. Will this finally silence those who deny the age-old attachment… Continue reading
The following extract is from an email recently received from one of the UK students on completion of the first year of the Course. . . . I can truly say that we, the participants, have gained far beyond my initial expectations. We have covered some extremely important, delicate and… Continue reading
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