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Yeshivat Har Etzion 2007 Trip to
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To
all who organized and led the trip to More
than that, you were even prepared to divert the group to visit It
was a privilege for the group to be led by Rosh Hayeshiva Rav Baruch Gigi
and Rav Yair Kahn. Their divrei Torah and insights were
highly pertinent and meaningful. They are rightly held in deep
respect by the talmidim with whom they interact with modesty and
warmth. The
group was fortunate to have Rav Shalom Berger to lead its educational
program and convey the many significant historical episodes and messages
with great skill, a lightness of touch and a knack of making history
meaningful and relevant. I am indebted to Rav Berger for undertaking
his own additional research into the kehilla of Thank
you also to Craig Lubner, who was so helpful in making my arrangements in
advance and to the madrichim, Mark Herman and Aharon Herskovitz. The
talmidim themselves were as ever an inspiration. They undertook
the trip with a sense of great responsibility and sensitivity. I
shall always remember with pleasure the outstanding Shabbat we spent
together in As
a parent, I can only feel gratitude that the Yeshiva is building on the
firm foundations that are the eternal legacy of those pre-war generations
in Jonathan Arkush 25 March 2007
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