STAYING CONNECTED: LA ALUMNI REUNION

Check out the video on ourYoutube Channel At a recent Mayanot Alumni BBQ in Los Angeles, there was an incredible turn out, over 175 guests came to reconnect with friends from their time as students at the Mayanot Institute of Jewish Studies, in Jerusalem. Several students who had gone to Mayanot when it first began, over 15 years ago, came. “It was a pleasure seeing everyone I knew, and meeting new people that had connected to Mayanot in the same way I had”, said Jacob Huberman , Mayanot Alumni from 2005. Mayanot Alumni in the Los Angeles region have been very active Jewishly. Rabbi Moishe Silver , Alumni relations in the US remarked, “We think it’s important to keep our alumni engaged and be there for them, even after they have left Mayanot”. Rabbi Kasriel Shemtov , Executive Director and Rabbi Shlomo Gestetner , Dean of the Mayanot Institute were both in attendance for this momentous event, the first of its kind in this area of the country. Rabbi Shemtov remar