January 13, 2010 • 27 Teves 5770Mishpacha Issue 292

10Point of View: Partisanship That Leads to Unity Rabbi Moshe Grylak

Yaakov Avinu taught them that in true religious life there is no room for rigid dogmas, for forcing the human spirit into a standard mold without considering the person’s unique qualities, his emotional makeup and personal psychology

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16Jewish Geography: This Week Binyamin Rose

CONGRESSIONAL RETIREMENT WAVE A DROP IN THE BUCKET - New faces unlikely to dilute Jewish interests in Washington

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22Cover: Williamsburg’s Diplomat — A Close-Up View Of Rabbi Moishe Duvid Niederman Yisroel Besser

With no formal diplomatic training, he has engineered complex international agreements. With no university degrees, he has found a common language with the elites of Capitol Hill. Rabbi Moishe Duvid Niederman is, without doubt, one of the most effective diplomats of the Orthodox Jewish community.

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32Feature Article 1: A Stuborn People in a Stuborn Province Chaim Revier

Friesland’s history of stubborn refusal to bow to outside authorities is perhaps what made it so well-suited for the Jews who called it home. On a visit to Friesland, Chaim Revier found shuls, monuments, and a vast library that still pay tribute to Jewish community.

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42Feature Article 3: No Problem 's Too Small for Big Mike Gavriel Horan

Big Mike has gone through more in his thirty-two years in This World than most people will go through in a lifetime. He’s literally been there, done that. And that’s precisely why he relates so well to kids at risk.…

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48Feature Article 2: Heirs Still Digging for their Buried Treasure Estee Rieder

Do the diamonds in Queen Victoria’s Small Diamond Crown actually belong to the Israeli descendants of Iraq’s Zechariah and Elazar Levy, who allegedly loaned the jewels to the nineteenth-century monarch?

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63Concentric Circles: Siamese Souls Esther Sender

As with conjoined twins, if one veers sharply to one side without warning, against the rules of the framework that binds them, the other will suffer.

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