Want to share this special moment with you…

The mezuza presentation was given in Russian in Moscow by Sara Katz AND in Hebrew by Shmuel Rind to elementary school boys – both on the same day!

 Sara Katz sent me the following note via Skype:

I took the kids to Yad Eliezer to pack food packages for people in need. As you see from the pictures we all had a really great time and can’t wait to do it again.This got me thinking….

Wouldn’t it be wonderful to make a presentation on the mitzvah of chesed and loving your fellow Jew? We need it now more than ever!

It could include video interviews with people who have excelled in this field, as well as inspiring stories, fascinating sources, and ideas of how we can all do more.

Our team of highly talented animators, 3d artists, cinematographers, special effects artists, and script writers have a track record of producing original and very creative material.

Of course we need funds to make this happen and so I am turning to you for help. The cost of a Torah Live presentation is £18,000. You can see what other people have pledged and keep a tab of our fund raising thermometer here. Minimum pledge is $100.

The Sages tell us that those who cause others to do kindness are greater in some ways than those who do kindness themselves. Your contribution will inspire the 50,000 people who have benefited from our material to do more kindness.

Please let me know how much you can pledge towards this important project by clicking here or using the donate buttons on this page.

Warm regards,
Dan Roth
Founder, Torah Live

Rabbi Roth gave a presentation to Rabbi Nachum Zakon’s teacher training group and the feedback was astounding.

18 out of the 18 people present rated it terrific and as you can see from the smiles in the attached picture it was a huge success.

The guys said they got a lot of inspiration from seeing what one can achieve in the world of education and are excited to use the material themselves.

Terrific – it was really captivating very clear and visual. It was presented very professionally. Thank you!
- Yitzhok Weiss

Personal anecdote at the end was very inspiring and encouraging for young men in our situation. What hard work, creativity and help from Above can do in paving a career and making a difference.
- Yehuda Markovits

Highly interesting and entertaining, Very Geshmak
- Yisroel Meir Englard

Never seen anything like it!
- Avrohom Ebbing

Terrific – I really loved it, and was really intrigued! Where were you 20 years ago when I was a kid!?
- Rabbi Menachem Schwartz

Thanks for a great presentation!
-Baruch Rosen

Terrific, Amazing! captivating!
-Shragi Chafetz

Fantastic job. Thanks for exposing me to this.
- Yitzchok Kirzner

Terrific – Very interested in learning how
- Shmuel Mordechai Horowitz

Rabbi Mayer Friedman, principal of the Rabbi Jacob Joseph School of Staten Island, was visiting Israel this week and popped into the Torah Live headquarters (pictured above) to check out the material he has heard so much about. He enjoyed what he saw so much that he purchased 6 presentations: Blessings, Charity, Anger, Materialism, Mezuzah, and Pirkei Avos. To find out about licensing material for your school, write to info@torahlive.com.

The Financial Times praised him. Magazines called him ‘revolutionary.’ The BBC aired a 30 minute documentary about him. The Prime Minister invited him to dinner…

 But to me he was, and always will be – Zeide.

With gratitude to the Almighty, it gives me great pleasure to share with you the exciting news that the Schreiber Charitable Trust is sponsoring a multimedia Torah Live presentation in memory Mr. Chaim Schreiber – my late grandfather.

As the newspaper quotes below attest to (a small sampling from the scores of articles that appeared about him in the media), my grandfather was a master of treating workers properly. He had absolute trust in his 8,500 workers and the feeling was reciprocated. “I’ll be sick when he goes,”  said one hard-bitten union negotiator, “but they tell me his grandfather lived to 110, so there’s hope for us yet!’ Not exactly the usual tribute from an employee to his boss!

“The latest Schreiber scheme is one in which workers get extra pay when they have holidays. ‘He said we need more money to spend then,’ said a union official.

- Electrical & Trading, April 1979 

“It’s called the sick committee and it’s certainly Schreiber’s oddest innovation. It meets every Wednesday morning and it alone decides who will get sick pay and who won’t…”

- The Risk Business, BBC, October 1981

“In 1970 clocking-in was abolished. It was the kind of policing system that was highly unsatisfactory in Schreiber’s eyes. Apart from anything else it is, to him, a control that implies mistrust. ‘Now time keeping is better than ever before,’ says production director Fred Noyes.”

- Business Administration, May 1973

“When he decided in 1971 to make Schreiber public, he wanted all employees to become shareholders, and therefore partners in the company. But the government ruled that the share scheme he had developed would be considered a backhanded pay increase during a pay freeze. They said he could go ahead with the flotation but not with the share-scheme. As the banker explained, ‘A very small matter, a small detail- the flotation will be going through but you won’t be able to apply the share-scheme for your employees’.

But to Zeide this was the ultimate deal breaker: “If there are no shares for my employees there is no flotation.” He cancelled the whole thing. They were flabbergasted at how progressive he was, they couldn’t believe he wouldn’t go public because of employee benefits.

Source: Chaim Schreiber’s Way by Avital Schreiber Levy. (Thank you Avital!)

The presentation will be called, The Jewish Contribution to Industrial Relations, and will deal with such subjects as: paying workers on time, strikes, fixing executives salaries and other employer employee related issues.

The presentation will also include a short biographical video about his life legacy.

A big thank you to Mrs. Sara Schreiber (my grandmother), Ms. Judy Schreiber, (my mother), Graham and Ruthie Morris and David and Ruthie Schreiber (my uncles and aunts) for commissioning the project.

To dedicate a Torah Live presentation in memory of a loved one and leave your mark on the Jewish world, write to: sponsorthefuture@torahlive.com

Meet the faces in our new ‘behind the scenes’ video…

I’m amused and somewhat embarrassed at the sheer number of doughnuts that disappeared yesterday at the first ever Torah Live staff get-together. Below are some photos you might want to check out….

But first, with 50,899 views so far and counting, view Torah Live’s “Against All Odds” video which will help you experience Chanukah in a new light. (There are seven more when you finish watching that one!)

Wishing you a beautiful and meaningful Chanukah, Rabbi Dan Roth.

View the rest of our Chanukah series here.

 

 

Miguel Abadi enjoying a private viewing of Torah Live presentations in his house in London with his children. Miguel, originally from Argentina, is helping spread Torah Live material to the Spanish speaking world. We look forward to keeping you informed of exciting developments soon.

Torah Live is delighted to announce that Rabbi Akiva Gilbert has joined our team of lecturers. Rabbi Gilbert completed the The Jerusalem Kollel three-year Rabbinics and Jewish Outreach Program in 2004, and currently resides and teaches in Johannesburg, South Africa where he co-founded the Outdoor Jewish Experience, the “OJE,” to help Jewish college students enhance their Jewish identity.

A big thank you to Mr. and Mrs. Calvert for opening their home and hosting the mezuza presentation to a small group of friends in the their home in Netanya. Graham has supported Torah Live from the very beginning, offering sage advice and opening all kinds of doors and it was therefore a real pleasure to be able to speak in his home. He remembers growing up near my grandparents in Edgware (London) and recalls how my uncle David Schreiber was his madrich in Sinai-Hebron.

Here’s what Mrs. Calvert had to say about the evening: “The shiur was incredible and the graphics were truly amazing. It was a privilege to host the shiur and if we lived in Israel we would want the whole series!”

“Fancy-shmancy presentation!”
“Eye-opening. Amazing!”

Torah Live is privileged to expand its team of presenters with the recent addition of  the talented Rabbi Rashi Simon, Founder and Director of Kesher, an outreach organization in Finchley, who licensed the mezuza presentation this past week. Rabbi Simon says “We are looking forward to utilising the lucid and informative—not to mention hi tech—educational material expertly assembled by Rabbi Roth and his team at Torah Live.”

Rabbi Yosef Tropper of Baltimore joins the team of Torah Live presenters.  Here’s a bit more about him, in his own words:

Born, raised and currently living in Baltimore, I am developing my skills as a Rabbinical counselor and leader, under the tutelage of great Torah leaders. I studied in Eretz Yisrael for over five years at Yeshivas Toras Simcha and Mir and then at Ner Yisrael in Baltimore. I am currently a Rebbe at Yeshivas Ohr Yaakov, a school geared towards maximizing the student’s learning experience by providing small classes and interactive learning. I am also involved with outreach, mentoring and tutoring.

Many yeshivas and seminaries in Israel have hosted Torah Live presentations over the course of the school year as part of an enriched curriculum.  A popular arrangement has been to offer Torah Live lectures as a special Rosh Chodesh event.  With 8 presentations currently available and more coming soon, there’s enough for a different one each month of the school year.  Click here for a sample schedule (pdf).  Here’s the list of yeshivas and seminaries in Israel that have benefited from  Torah Live presentations:

Afikei Torah
Be’er Miriam
Chochmas Lev
Darchei Bina
EYAHT
JEWEL
Michlala
Midreshet Lindenbaum
Midreshet Rachel
Neve Yerushalayim
Ohr Penina
Peninim
Sharfman’s
Sha’alvim for Women
Tomer Devorah
Young Judaea / FZY

 

Torah Live is pleased and privileged to announce that Rabbi Yitzchak Berkovits Shlit”a has accepted the position of President of Torah Live. To view a video message from Rabbi Berkovits, click here.