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Who's On Furst? - March 24 (Listen)

Tune into YU’s Weekly Internet Radio Show, Thursdays at 2PM When your children ask you what you did when there was a call for help, what will you answer? This week on “Who’s on Furst?” (Thursdays at 2 p.m. EST, on www.nachumsegal.com and www.yu.edu/radio) meet two men with extraordinary stories about how they have answered that call and helped those in need. Dr. Ruben Cohen was part of the IDF’s mobile hospital unit that went to Haiti to aid in the recovery efforts there after last summer’s devastating earthquake.  He has recently been contacted again by the Israeli Army to meet them in Japan as the Israeli government has, once more, stepped up and sent humanitarian aid to those in need. Dr. Cohen will share some of what he saw in Haiti, what he expects to see in Japan and how this is not what he signed up for when he went to medical school. Alexander Rapaport was only 25 years old when he and his partner founded Masbia, Brooklyn’s first and only kosher free soup kitchen. Years later, over 250,000 meals have already been served and Masbia runs four soup kitchens throughout New York City and is open five days a week. Listen as he explains how it all came about, the challenges Masbia faced when it opened and the daily struggles it faces today. You’ll hear about upcoming community events and a roundup of interesting stories from the weekly Jewish newspapers along with a dvar torah from Rabbi Yona Reiss, Max and Marion Grill Dean of YU's Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS). Tune in Thursdays at 2 p.m. EST at www.yu.edu/radio.