Great Videos from the CER in Berlin

November 24, 2013

English64px-John_E_Fry_Steadicam_Operator_UKA video from the Guardian and more.

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Berichte über die CER-Konferenz in Berlin

November 13, 2013

Deutsch64px-John_E_Fry_Steadicam_Operator_UKIch komme soeben zurück von der 28. Konferenz der CER (Conference of European Rabbis). Anbei einige Medienberichte.

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Media Reports from the Latest CER Conference

November 13, 2013

English64px-John_E_Fry_Steadicam_Operator_UKI just came back from the Berlin meeting of the Conference of European Rabbis, the twenty-eighth conference of the CER, marked ‘family, rabbi and community’, and marking a decade to the founding of the Conference of Orthodox Rabbis of Germany. At the top of the conference discussions are: the topic of Jewish rights in the continent – with an emphasis on ritual slaughter and circumcision, and practical ways to relieve the problem of agunos (abandoned wives). Read the rest of this entry »


Interview in the CER Newsletter

April 2, 2012

EnglishCER logoThe Conference of European Rabbis included an interview with me in their most recent newsletter.

Choice quote:

“While attending a logistics class toward my MBA, the professor asked a simple question: when might it be more appropriate for a clothing company to have a single distribution centre for the entire USA, and when might it be more appropriate to have several distribution centres? The upshot is that to reach your customers, and in our case those are the Jews in our city, you can draw some of them to a central location, while others need to be sought out, you need to go where they are.

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