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Fwd: News From Agudas Yisroel 16 Teves 5782/December 20, 2021


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Subject: News From Agudas Yisroel 16 Teves 5782/December 20, 2021
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December 20, 2021 - 16 Teves 5782
News from the Agudah:

  • Agudah's Conference of Synagogue Rabbanim joined the call to Israeli Prime Minister Bennet to preserve the kedushas hamakom of the Kosel. See below to read the letter.

  • It was graduation season this week at COPE, and we have a full report from the men's and women's course tracks below. Much hatzlachah to the graduates!

  • Reminder for Lawrence, NY: Yahalom New York's Mother's Night Out for mothers of children with special needs is tonight! Details and RSVP info below.

  • Yarchei Kallah will continue this week on Iyunim B'hilchos Shabbos. See below for next week's schedule and how to join. 
Agudah's Conference of Synagogue Rabbonim Urges Prime Minister Bennett to Preserve the Sanctity of the Kotel
100 Rabbonim from the Agudath Israel Conference of Synagogue Rabbonim, have signed on to a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, imploring him to protect the sanctity of the Kotel by rejecting the "Kotel Compromise."
 
The letter can be viewed by clicking here
Ready to Hit the Business World, COPE CPA-Track Students Honored at Graduation
Rabbi Daniel Baumann, COPE Director
by Sandy Eller
 
Nearly 70 students celebrated their graduations from the separate men's and women's cohorts of Agudath Israel of America's COPE CPA accounting program last week, completing a nearly two year-long intensive program that has them entering a market where jobs are both plentiful and lucrative.
 
While this year marked the 27th men's and 26th women's graduations, the program was vastly different than in previous years, with all classes given remotely because of the pandemic. COPE director Rabbi Daniel Baumann noted that many of the students met in person for the first time at their graduations, held on December 12th for the women's group, and December 13th for the men.
 
The CPA track follows COPE's Junior Accounting program, a shorter course on business essentials that prepares even students without prior business background for entry level accounting and business management positions. Many students who complete the Junior Accounting program decide to further their careers by following through to COPE's optional CPA track.
 
While learning on Zoom involved certain limitations, it offered benefits as well. With nearly all of the students holding down full-time jobs as they made their way through the 22 month long program, not having to travel to classes afforded them extra time for their studies. Additionally, learning remotely made it possible for students from beyond the greater New York-New Jersey area to participate in the program, a phenomenon that never could have happened had classes been held in person.
 
Among those in attendance to congratulate the students on their academic achievements were Agudath Israel of America executive vice president Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel and author and lecturer Rabbi Paysach Krohn, with State Senator Diane Savino joining the women's commencement and State Senator Simcha Felder taking part in the men's graduation.
 
As always, the highlight of the graduation was hearing from the student representatives of each group. Miri Bojman, an accountant at FM Home Loans, was one of thirteen students who benefitted from an accelerated junior accounting program that was created in 2020 for seminary girls whose year in Israel was cut short by the pandemic, giving them the ability to enter the CPA track just a few months later. She praised COPE and its dedicated team of educators for providing the entire group with the necessary skills to take their places in the world of accounting as confident professionals and, in the future, as licensed CPAs.
 
Also addressing participants was Shaina Morozow, a bookkeeper at Up Realty LLC. She spoke about how she had no doubt that she would one day be recommending COPE graduates for employment positions, knowing that each one had been well prepared to enter the professional world and urged her classmates to dream big about their futures.
 
Yossi Rubin, an accountant at Balanced Accounts & Tax Services Ltd., discussed the well-rounded education he received as a COPE student in both the Junior Accounting and CPA programs, one that went far beyond balance sheets and tax law and included English skills as well as honesty and business ethics. Citing his 20 years of workplace experience, Elimelech Schonfeld, currently the controller at Allways Forwarding of NY, shared that he has been so impressed with the caliber of the COPE graduates he has personally hired, that he decided to enhance his knowledge by enrolling in the program.
 
"Having now gone through the COPE junior accounting program and CES-CPA track program myself, I can attest to its rigor and value," said Mr. Schonfeld, adding, "I would strongly advise anyone, at any stage of their career, to go through the COPE junior accounting program and CPA track CES program."
 
COPE has been providing well-regarded educational courses in keeping with the highest communal standards since it first opened its doors in 1977. Having seen some 700 students graduating from the CPA program and approximately 3,000 taking the junior accounting course, Rabbi Baumann found it gratifying to see multiple COPE families at this year's graduations. Among the graduates was the son of COPE graduate who completed the program along with his wife, as well as a woman whose father took a COPE programming course in the eighties and a man whose brother graduated the advanced class last year.
 
Rabbi Krohn shared that he is the proud grandfather and the father in law of three COPE graduates as well.
 
"We have had a lot of really loyal families passing through our doors which we take as the highest compliment," said Rabbi Baumann. "I truly believe that one of the overarching realities that sets us apart is the fact that we offer a Torah-true program, without compromising at all on quality. COPE has earned a great reputation and nothing makes us prouder than having happy employers calling us to rave about our former students."
A Mothers Night Out: Yahalom New York Inaugural Event 
Yahalom New York is excited to invite the mothers of children with special needs to its inaugural event, an evening of connection, support, and inspiration.  

Rabbi Moshe Plutchok, Mara D'asra of Kehillas Ahavas Yisrael and Rosh HaYeshiva of Yeshiva Derech Chaim, will be the guest speaker, and refreshments will be served.  

The event will be held in Lawrence, New York, this Monday, December 20, at 8:00 PM EST. To RSVP, please contact Miss Tova Wacholder, director of Yahalom New York, at twacholder@agudah.org/ 212.747.8763; or, click here.  
Iyunim B'hilchos Shabbos
The shiurim will continue next week with the access information as follows:
The Zoom access link is https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83528677424 and the call in number is 1-646-558-8656, access code: 835-286-77424.
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