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MESSAGE
 RABBI
AVROHOM KAHN
Rabbi Kahn has been teaching and inspiring Jews of
all backgrounds for close to three decades. He studied under
the renowned talmudic genius, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveichik
for over 6 years. Rabbi Kahn received his Rabbincal Ordination
in 1972 from the sage and halachic authority of the generation,
Rabbi Moshe Feinstein. Rabbi Kahn graduated from NYU with
an MBA after receiving his B.A. from CCNY.
In 1981, he founded the Center for Return in order
to bring Jewish college students closer to Judaism. Author
of numerous scholarly articles on Torah topics, Rabbi Kahn
also published an original commentary on the Passover Hagaddah.
The greatest challenge facing American Jewry today is neither
economic nor political; it is a question of identity.
Jews in America continue to disappear in every census
because they don’t know what it means to be Jewish
– so why bother. The average American Jew has no conception
of: what is written in the Bible; what the holidays are
all about; what the basic philosophy and theology of Judaism
teaches nor even a conception of the depth and breadth of
3300 years of Jewish learning. In short, we are functionally
illiterate about our own religion.
Jews in America are not leaving Judaism; most have never
had the pleasure of being part of it. Judaism has been hidden
from American Jewry.
The definition of Judaism is the relationship between
God and the Jewish nation. At Mount Sinai, God gave the
Jewish nation a manual encompassing the covenant between
them. That manual was the Torah. A Jew without the Torah
has no way to relate to God and in short order, will find
himself assimilating into the prevailing culture.
Center for Return attempts to educate our fellow Jews
about God and the Torah, giving them the basic foundation
of Judaism, thereby allowing them to develop their relationship
with the Creator.
Over the past two and a half decades, Center For Return
has educated thousands of young men and women both on the
college campus and in the workplace. In the coming years
we hope, with the help of the Almighty, to do much more.
Welcome to Center for Return. It will be a pleasure studying
Torah together.
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