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[Apr 19, 2018] Fora the Rav and Guest Speakers 2 upcoming Shabbos fora with the Rabbi and guest speakers April 28 with Dr Barry Pakes: Halachic and Ethical Dilemmas in Public Health Outbreaks 6:50 pm (one hour before 2nd Minchah) Please see flyer. May 5 with Mr John (Shlomo) Anhang: Saving a Life Through Kidney Donations in Halacha and in Practice 6:55 pm (one hour before 2nd Minchah) Please see flyer.

[Apr 19, 2018] Shul Acquired Alcoholism Amudim, one of the leading Jewish organizations in the fight against alcoholism, released the following video, indicating how shul kiddush clubs can lead our youth into alcoholism. Please see video. Our community has taken many steps to stymie these clubs. Jewish Addiction Community Services (JACS) addressed our community and demonstrated how these clubs, which in our shul meets within sight of children, can affect children’s sensitive, developing templates and trigger alcoholism. Toronto's Vaad HaRabbanim declared, many times, that these clubs violate Halachah. The Vaad also published statements from prominent professors of Pediatrics and from the Orthodox Union detailing how these clubs contribute to our community’s surging rate of alcohol abuse. I wrote an article describing some of the damage that these clubs cause. For all these reasons and more, I issued P’sak that these clubs violate Halachah and our executive voted to ban this practice. Despite P’sak, executive vote, much education and many discussions and appeals to reason, our illicit Kiddush Club continues to contravene my P’sak and our executive ruling. The club still meets during Davening and it still actively recruits attendance from both regular Mispallelim and Shul visitors. If not stopped, our Kiddush Club will only grow more problematic with time; Shuls that have not uprooted these clubs when they were still small, are now saddled with monstrous clubs that are almost impossible to dislodge. We will therefore take additional steps to protect our children and our shul from this scourge. It is important that our community understand why these steps will be taken. My article and letters and articles from the Vaad, the Orthodox Union and the professors are attached. Please see Rav's article, Vaad statement, Professors' statement, OU statement Rabbi Yehoshua Weber

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