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foreign I'd like to say thank you to our weisenberger for giving me a warm welcome and and Grant me the opportunity to speak here it's a delight I've only heard great things about the place I've read about in mishpaka was a really beautiful article thank you Yoli we started this idea by the way I challenged you early June I said I'll come remember and I wrote it down and I said at the end of the summer when I come back from Toms River we're going to make this happen so I cracked open my scheduler and bingo there's the note for Thursday night and I said are we on and he said give me a moment let me see if the guys are going to be in town and Hashem he was a real nakshman but I mean we did it says thank you okay so I think before I just delve into the subject matter you may want to know a little bit about me how did I get into this work and was it my primary vocation okay here we go born in Cairo Egypt to a father who's from originally from Syria virus my mother's family came from Odessa after the Bolshevik Revolution to Cairo interestingly when I was at NYU as an undergraduate student I came I I did a thesis paper called was Christopher Columbus Jewish was trying to determine if he was Jewish or not along the way I came to discover there were 50 000 ashkenazim in Cairo after the Communists you know came in and he ran people were running for their lives anyway so my father and my uncles his first settle after he finished his studies at yeshivat Pura Joseph which is
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