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My Favorite Stories to Inspire

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Dr. Jack Cohen

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to be able to support this wonderful organization just a little bit of background here's an organization that's got over 2 000 stories in their archives they have well over 650 000 downloads and over 2 000 people a day receive their stories and I want to tell you my background and to tell you why I'm so passionate about this organization I grew up in the Syrian community in Brooklyn I had the pleasure to be a Founder to one of the great khalilim of the area called ketursion it's a call out that we found in my myself with my friends about close to 30 years ago because our dream was to years ago because our dream was to develop the next group of dianim and rabbis that would service the sephotic world many of our graduates turned out to be Stars Elementor was one of our first Ali Dayan many others great wonderful people I took it upon myself when we initiated this call out to run the kids division so for 20 years I was one of the people who directed the kids programs on Shabbat teaching them giving them stories giving them inspirational uh presentations so telling stories became

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  1. 0:30to be able to support this wonderful organization just a little bit of background here's an
  2. 2:03its impact is really felt in terms of what it means to have proper Jewish Education
  3. 4:04office to Father Kelly Father Kelly was the high school principal and they were elected the
  4. 6:06eat you launch quickly you're going to race up the second floor to my office and
  5. 8:10Jason in his ignorance said no father Kelly's how could you be so ignorant not to
  6. 10:14as a Jew and I feel you don't belong in Saint path only this is not
  7. 11:47Saint Bartholomew parked the car in the parking lot they went through the lobby went upstairs
  8. 13:49Jewish Sabbath and I stood there in awe at the kotal plaza as I watched people
  9. 15:51United States you've got to ask permission from the dean from the roshishiva of Noah Weinberg
  10. 17:56religion his legacy his traditions and you know what you're going to do the Torah that

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