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The opinions expressed on this webpage represent those of the individual authors and, unless clearly labeled as such, do not represent the opinions or policies of TBS. Two weeks ago I came back from Miami from the reunion of my chaverim of Hanoar Hatzioni B'Cuba, this Zionist youth movement's branch in Havana. For the first time I saw people I spent my teen age years and haven't seen since 1957. Soon after Fidel Castro replaced the previous Batista capitalist dictatorship with a communist dictatorship, all but three of us have left the island. Those of us from TBS who went last March on the charitable mission saw the perpetuation and the crumbling of this Cuban communism. The picture below is of some of the Hanoar Hatzioni leadership in the late 1950s. I, George Alexander, am the leftmost in the first row.More pictures and my narrative are available from those years…

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The opinions expressed on this webpage represent those of the individual authors and, unless clearly labeled as such, do not represent the opinions or policies of TBS. Skyping the Minyan Posted on Nov 8, 2011By David Lerner, Temple Emunah, Lexington, MA The Project: Avram Reisner's 2001 CJLS teshuvah, "Wired to the Kadosh Barukh Hu: Minyan via Internet," (See below the full text less the Hebrew) explains that should the technology arise (since Skype had not yet been invented), it would be permissible for someone to join in a daily minyan, and to recite the kaddish (although they would not be counted in the minyan). Maxine Marcus is a new participant in our minyan. She lives in Amsterdam and works in The Hague, where she serves as a prosecutor of war criminals from the wars in the former Yugoslavia. In recent years, Max has been dealing with the aging of her parents and the…