Shmorg 2: Who Cares What Oorah Does

[Music] Shambala come my name is Joshua Weinstein and I'm involved over here but we are working together with Rabbi mints on the various different to work you of programs and projects of Obama throughout the year Baruch Hashem today is involved with working with over 2,000 families from a very wide background and these families are coming from throughout the country and really today from throughout the world that we are involved with servicing what I would like to share with you as particularly in how we were it takes a personal interest in the families that were involved with an interest in making sure that these families have the tools that are needed to celebrate the Jewish holidays that we have throughout the years the waiver amendments began years ago was is that a minister took a child and put him for the first time in Jewish day school when he put this child into Jewish day school by meant wanted to make sure that only other children at his school would have when that first big jumped of the year would come along they would have that Luminess road to use for the first time by Mintz was concerned this family this boy was now going to yeshiva for the first time is not gonna have a live in us so if his parents don't know about this survey minutes when he bought a new oven Esther for his own families he went ahead and additionally picked up another set for this child who sent me to yeshiva and as things have grown over 35 years now thank God Baruch Hashem we are sending out FedEx Mauer offers two thousand sets of love manners argument to families from throughout the country and just imagine that feeling that there is for the first time their family you know opens up their front door and you see that FedEx package that comes Christmas from rabbi medicine from their friends at Murrah with that rule of an escrow that they'd never seen before in their lives and they say no one is this myth child explains to them we learned about little Vanessa movie in school by mints aura has sent us a love and asked her to be able to appreciate this the holiday even though like you mean real I gotta summer you don't mean like leave them your still eyes like during the Arab ugly sample I shall call you guys a little over like it [Music] no matter what your solo is part of you and they send us packages for every holiday persons circus they sent us in lieu of enough to include the entire family element select wait a minute you know all the other children have circus at home where is this you know child gonna get a sticker from so what I meant did was this that when he would go ahead and he builds took us for you know his own family no children does only a grand children they would have suckers right so he would go ahead and he would you know buy and build it would send some of the not from some of the volunteers to go ahead and build circus Bharatha sham at this point years later is a tremendous army of people that are involved in going throughout in the New York tri-state area but really there we have you know sequester we shift throughout the country and we're sending out circus to you know many many families and everyone would have had a super before those had to be able to have to ourselves a sucker for the first time that they're able to use and they use it two years to come Horace I wanted us with the sukkah so we we got to experience our very first Sukkot in a Sukkah I think we were the only suka in 40 square miles so it was really exciting and my son's got a lot out of it when it comes to Purim poem is a young tough of course the we all enjoy everybody gets dressed up in from everybody enjoys porn but you know what if you're a child mushiya for the first time or if your family is not too familiar with her employments just not the same as it is for those who are part of our communities already and so therefore what were other means we do is is you make a pursue that a beautiful celebration with singing and dancing and and entertainment and things that for for the families of his involvement I mean a mystery area I've been in his little over seven years working a lot with the tuitions in the past some years things have changed greatly confinements first started hora he knew every student and he kept up with every student and the family now your luck bigger but we tried very hard to give the same personal attention to every student ugly happy but we have to do in a little different way the first thing is where you have to be involved in encouraging parents to send the children to a Jewish school but most were fears we'll have people there speak into the parents not to feel like the parents to see if they'll be interested in some indicative Jewish schools to see what the reservations are but why they don't want to send the kid to Jewish calls and we try to address the reservations the other thing is unfortunately today to the assimilation rate that takes a lot of time sometimes to check out as a child really Jewish or not the third thing we have to do is we have to find the right school we have to find the school that the child would do well in we have to find a school that the child will have friends that shut the child will be happy we have to find a school that the parents will be happy with and that takes a lot of time we had one fam that we worked on to the to three years to find them the right school Varsham visited we found them the rights will not do a law the parents went down to the school they were very impressed by the principal the center kids there the kids are doing great the kids love the skills the parents love the school and [Music] now in order to give the same special attention that our agreements gave to every student when it was a small organization we started two camps boys on and girls on encourage all the students to go to the camp every kid in camp gets what's full iturra mate Big Brother Big Sister to keep up with them and that is how we know what's going on with every child and we can give them the same personal attention that red mints always give the children years ago manure first started who has a bunch of camps appeared to be retiring kids we have boys own girls own teams own discover you all to encourage kids to become more in touch with their heritage hi my name is de val de pasión I went to girls over the past three years since summer 2007 and girls on is there so you're one of the biggest parts of my life it's always a struggle what do we do to get these kids to come to our camps but we have a tremendous amount of things that we offer them we have beautiful grounds we have a tremendous amount of activities that a lot of other camps don't have and we're able to give them as horseback riding bumper bolts zipline and major water slides indoor outdoor heated pools Xbox room game room and a lot of our program is outstanding our staff is warm caring and it's an unbelievable campus of tremendous amount of opportunity for these kids the headset there's like amazing Robert the Benowitz like I stink dried going to like cher was a whole big drags like it's really not he's so amazing and miss in the DA she always puts so much effort into girls own like all her spirit that's so like really makes girls on and the best camp ever you can't ask for more it's like its home sit home so we need they really ever have that opportunity of seeing what a real venue Shiva Ventura where Abbas Easter all is really all about and here for four weeks they live in a bunk together with them they sit with them and they sit with them and Avenue and they sit with them in a dining room they dive in with them and they just spend time with them and they have a tremendous a good time and an exciting time together with the true Bonterra true basis well they see what it means living a Jewish life but our goal is to follow up throughout the year we have a tor amay program we have trips that we do every color mode we take them on a trip and they get together with their staff again we have a Chaba tonin in the middle of the year both to the boys and for the girls it's not just for summer we have Shepperton in hotel and can we have fun uncle parties to cut chips tents of strips we go to Six Flags in the record study and or we have amazing shower tones we just finished in the hanukkah telephone actually it was so fun we saw our friends we ate amazing food we did so much we have the Shabbat zone which is house for the girls whenever they want to keep Shabbos and they want to get away from their surroundings they could come and spend time with the staff and keep the shops throughout the year also the extra bars on every two Shabbat so as a month and Shabbat morning when you wake up you feel different you feel like you feel it's Shabbat and you get all dressed up and it's all fancy and dancing and singing together is amazing and on top of that we have the Torme program which they could they learn with them and they actually get miles and they get rewards for the amount they learn and that is a tremendous tool for these kids that are there are very little exposed or unexposed at all to learn about Torah and mitzvot and learn about you describe it's a wonderful program where you learn play rock with your caboose up and it is amazing we Stiga way had the opportunity to have a summer with Europe and my son's walked away with with so much that they learned throughout the summer they've taught me a lot of things myself after I went to girls on I start buying more skirts and wear skirts and it just I realized that it could look nice and lift positive like full of red blue and it's just because of browser my son Brian was awarded to fill in a Torah he was so committed to it and so dedicated to that and Ora my son's potential hi my name is Marta hi beer I meet our mates coordinator for us and I'd like to tell you a little bit about the turbinates program determines program we set up a caboose a shop or a study partnership between the third inaudible person together with the less connect individual someone who hasn't had the privilege to learn para Sean was less connected to a Jewish heritage and the goal of the program is of course to bring that person closer to Jewish heritage to experience torah learning we wanted our daughter to learn about her Jewish heritage and we had heard about Ora and they had picked they sent someone a young lady who comes every week to her house and Natalie and she tell stories and they work together and do crafts and my daughter absolutely loves that she looks forward for her to come every week and which was wonderful for my husband and I to say it's great that she was coming this kind of new background but she never really was exposed to the fork and since then we have been learning for over a year I'd like to tell you a little story about one of our tour mates LaRussa's we'll call him Robert Robert originally wasn't interested in learning it actually was his wife that Preston to contact us and she did and we set up a study prompt with Robert and one of our volunteers it turned out that Robert hit it off tremendously with with our volunteer and Robert just loved learning to the extent that each week he just would easily await the next week I hid for a short time of this I approached him is Robert perhaps are interested in sending your children to a Jewish school again Robert was hesitant once again and he says kind of is for me I want my kids have a good secular education but if they're a little trotting I was successful but Hashem and today his kids are in a Jewish school and to tell you the truth he can't stop thanking me for that little prodding the little encouragement that I gave him he tells me that that there's nothing like hearing his children say over the lessons to him and --is-- and now they even have a Shabbos table to boot but the circles further last year by our leader Shabbos reward that means what we have actually a retreat a weekend retreat in hotel in which all the tour mates gather together Robert got up in front of the audience and the audience was to both 100 some people and it got up and he said I'd like you all to know that I lost my job this past week I remember the audience was stunned by such a proclamation but he went on to say normally I would have gone into a total panic after all how am I going to provide for my children where are we gonna get our next meal how we gonna live but through aura and two tournaments I learned that there's nothing to worry about I learned that is gonna take care of everything I realize that I don't have control I realized that this comes from our head it really does come from our high LeBonheur I truly believe that and after I made that decision to say it is what it is I don't write the law you know I don't have any stress anymore hi my name is Avram Biederman and I've been helping hora wrong Torah spot since we started just over a year ago we view this as a place that's going to be a home away from home for Jews try to learn more about Yiddish guy right now we have the program every Tuesday night it's a lecture it's formal than a lecture begins with people coming together there are refreshments it's a very nice welcoming environment and who is philosophy in general has been to help people at every stage of observance and every stage of education with people that are just starting to learn about we connect with the others guys people that have been from for many years to enhance their your knowledge of you this Trident her and tourist spot was designed to help further that people we have anywhere from 30 to nearly 50 people every Tuesday night coming together we spit we schmoes it's one on one before people talk with each other people speak with my wife with myself but the other were volunteers that come all sorts of issues all sorts of questions about Judaism about Torah redundance gives it a beautiful wonderful lecture every week and then they could ask questions on any topic that anything about the other Skype that they'd like to ask Torah spot is a unique opportunity for wives range of Jews from people who are looking to reattach themselves to Judaism to people need some reinforcement or even people who have been Patrol observant Jews it's it's a well mixed group of people who interact very nicely with lobotomy rabbi Mintz has been an inspiration to all of us sees his style is low-key but he's firm in his beliefs he's not trying to beat anybody over over the head like he says he's not trying to make anybody religious but he does give you the facts and the facts are according to the Torah way and he's he's informative he's interesting interesting and each week he picks up from the week before so you're not in a big void and he also started something several weeks ago which i think is nice before he gives his prepared share he because over a few calacas and and of course at the end of the session and it's wide open for discussion and it's inspiring because for myself I see people reattaching themselves I see people even when I'm on the street I hear people talking to other people about becoming kosher or how do i Kashar those things that we hear is that how wonderful and warm environment that is it's not threatening it's very casual comfortable chairs very modern decor it's welcoming I think another major factor is the approach it's an attractive location they did a beautiful job meeting Laura and setting up the young Israel health and girls simcha Hall which is now hers place will learn this besides being clean and stylish and bright there's wonderful opening smorgasbord sometimes wood hot food sometimes you know always with cold food sometimes with hot food people smoothes before after it's it's an enticing atmosphere and the nicest part about it is it's always welcome you're always welcome and you always feel that you're part of the cloud [Music] we're all [Music] [Applause] [Music]