Dear Rabbis,

Please mark your calendars for the Igud HaRabbonim/Rabbinical Alliance of America’s Rosh Chodesh Shevat Conference and Seudah which is scheduled to take place on Monday, January 19, 2026, 2 Shevat 5786, 6:00PM at Yeshivas Bris Avram, located at 113 Remsen Avenue, Monsey, New York 10952, where our chaver Rabbi Aharon Mandel serves as Rosh Yeshiva. (For Waze, use 113 Remsen Ave. For all other GPS, use 120 Remsen Ave.)

The Rosh Chodesh Shevat Seudah is L’iluy Nishmas:

HaChasid Reb Pinchas Ben HaChasid Reb Zev Kehos Moshe Mandel, ZT’l, father of Rabbi Tzvi Mandel, Rabbi of Khal Bnai Yisroel and grandfather of our host, Rabbi Aharon Mandel. Reb. Pinchas Mandel, ZT’L is well known as the innovator who made it possible after the establishment of Israel to have the eternal rest and Kevurah in Eretz Yisroel for Jews from the Diaspora.

Ha’isha Hatznuah Chanah Bas Rav Yoshua Mordechai (Sperling), ZT’L, wife of Reb Pinchas Mandel, ZT’L.

Reb Michael ben HaRav HaGaon Dovid Donnenberg, ZT’L, father-in-law of Rabbi Tzvi Mandel and Grandfather of Rabbi Aharon Mandel. Rav Dovid Donnenberg, ZT’L father of Reb. Michael Donnenberg, ZT’L served as Rav in Newark, New Jersey and founded the Shochtim Union in the United States and he was from the early Masmichim at the Rabbinical College of New Jersey.

Ha’isha Hatznuah Sorah Malka Bas Habal Tzedakah Reb Chaim Tuvia (H. Jerome Sisselman), ZT’L, Mrs. Donnenberg, ZT’L, mother-in-law of Rabbi Tzvi Mandel and grandmother of Rabbi Aharon Mandel.

At the seudah, Rabbi Aharon Mandel; Rabbi Tzvi Mandel; Rabbi Efraim Mordechai Friedman, Posek, Stolin Monsey, and for A-Time; Rabbi Shlomo Nissan, Rosh Kollel Emek HaChochma Tcherkas; Rabbi Gil Student, Director Vaad Halacha, Igud HaRabbonim; and Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Serebryanski, Rosh Kollel, Ayshel Avraham Zichron Yaakov Rabbinical Seminary, will address us. Rabbi Yaakov Klass, our Presidium Chairman, will deliver the Administrative Report.

Please make every effort to attend this important Rosh Chodesh Shevat Igud/RAA Conference, as is our custom important topics will be discussed.

Please remember to complete the Gemara you have chosen to learn for our Chai Elul Annual Siyum HaShas.

On behalf of the Igud/RAA Presidium and of the Bais Din, I extend greetings of Torah.

Sincerely,

Rabbi Mendy Mirocznik
Executive Vice-President, Rabbinical Alliance of America