Phone and Learn
THE iGENERATION - iPOD, iPAD, iPHONE - FROM SELF-INVOLVEMENT TO SELF-IMPROVEMENT (SEPTEMBER 2011)
Over 1000 people streamed into Finchley United Synagogue a week before Rosh Hashanah, to hear the inspiring words of Rabbi Paysach Krohn at the annual PaL, Phone and Learn, pre-Rosh Hashanah lecture. The title of Rabbi Krohn’s shiur this year was ‘the iGeneration – iPod, iPad, iPhone; From Self-Involvement to Self-Improvement’, and focused on how we can work on turning the ‘lower case i’ of ‘I want’ or ‘I need’ to the more ‘upper case’ type of I – ‘I care, I help and I do’.
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VISIONS OF UNITY: WORDS BUILDING WORLDS (SEPTEMBER 2010)
When it comes to fostering unity among Klal Yisrael, it’s our words that make the difference – that was the message delivered by Rabbi Paysach Krohn at the annual PaL Pre-Rosh Hashanah lecture on September 5th 2010. Speaking to a full house at the Finchley United Synagogue just three nights before Yom Tov, Rabbi Krohn kept the 1000-strong audience spellbound for close to two hours with his trademark mix of heart-warming stories and inspiring anecdotes.
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MAGGID'S WHIRLWIND TOUR FOR PaL (SEPTEMBER 2009)
Rabbi Paysach Krohn, the charismatic "American Maggid", made a whirlwind trip to the UK last week as the now annual guest of Phone and Learn (PaL) the innovative telephone learning programme he helped to found. Arriving early on Monday morning, he visited two schools straightaway, addressing 100 children at Noam Primary School on one of his favourite topics - Meah Brochos, the importance of making 100 brachos a day, followed by a trip to JFS, where he captivated 300 secondary school pupils, who participate in JFS’s texts programme, with a talk on friendship and the need for a lev tov. In the afternoon, Rabbi Krohn spoke to the junior pupils at Beis Yaakov Primary School, about good middos and friendship, explaining that the difference between “united” and “untied” is “where you put the ‘I’.”
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PAL DRAWS THE CROWDS FOR AN EVENING OF ASPIRATION AND INSPIRATION (SEPTEMBER 2008)
Telephone learning organisation PaL, Phone and Learn, attracted a crowd of over 1200 people to its pre-Rosh Hashanah lecture at the Hasmonean Boys School last week. The huge number of attendees meant that the audience had to be divided between two halls, with a live audio-visual link up provided in the second auditorium. PaL chairman Dov Harris introduced the guest speaker, Rabbi Paysach Krohn, by outlining the theme for the evening - 'Aspire Today, Inspire Tomorrow': taking the message of Ellul, aspiring to achieve one's goals and using that aspiration to become an inspiration to others.
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PHONE AND LEARN TUTOR TRAINING SEMINAR (MAY 2008)
PaL held a Tutor Training Seminar last Sunday evening, in the aesthetically pleasing surroundings of the Chai Centre in Hendon. The event, which featured two keynote speakers and an 'Ask The Expert' panel session, was billed as being an evening of inspiration, practical advice and confidence building tips for one-to-one tutors.
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PHONE AND LEARN RABBI KROHN INSPIRES THE UK FOR PaL (SEPTEMBER 2007)
Almost 1,000 people came to be inspired by the international speaker, renowned author and storyteller, Rabbi Paysach Krohn when he spoke at the Hasmonean High School for Boys in Hendon, London two nights before Rosh Hashono.
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PHONE AND LEARN DRAWS THE CROWDS ONCE AGAIN (SEPTEMBER 2006)
THE innovative UK kiruv organisation Phone and Learn (PaL) held its second annual pre-Rosh Hashonoh lecture on Tuesday evening. The prospect of hearing Dayan Yonasan Abraham of the London Beth Din speak on the subject of "The Heart of Communication" drew a large crowd to the Menorah Primary School in Golders Green, where the idea for PaL was originally mooted back in December 2004.
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PHONE AND LEARN HOLDS FIRST TRAINING SEMINAR (FEBRUARY 2006)
How 'yearning' can be translated into 'learning' was one of the questions posed at Phone and Learn's first tutor training seminar on Sunday evening. The event, which saw seed's Rabbi Yosef Grunfeld and a host of other speakers address an audience of approximately 50 men and women at the Ner Yisrael Beis Hamedrash in Hendon, was geared towards both current and potential PaL tutors.
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PHONE AND LEARN - AN EVENING OF INSPIRATION (SEPTEMBER 2005)
Some 700 men and women attended a pre-Rosh Hashanah lecture given by the acclaimed American storyteller Rabbi Paysach Krohn last Monday evening. The event, which was held at the Menorah Primary School in Golders Green, was organised by a new UK outreach organisation, Phone and Learn.
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