A Message of Unity from Rabbi Hauer, zt"l

We want to uphold our way, gezunterheyt, let's  uphold our way. Let's go and promote our way.   But why does upholding our way mean that we have  to say that the other way has no place and has   no room? At a time when we so need each other,  and we so need to be connected to each other,   may it bring us together so that the peace that  we bring amongst ourselves also be reflected in   a peace, a true peace, that surrounds Klal  Yisrael. It does not say in anybody's Torah,   in anybody's siddur, "Torah tziva lanu morashah  kehillat New Jersey," but sometimes we hear   it that way. Torah belongs to every member  of the Jewish community. Everything we do,   we need to be thinking about how we make the  experience of Yiddishkeit, of Jewish life,   of Jewish learning more embracing, more compelling  for the type of Torah that will allow every member   of that Jewish community to find its place in that  critical and invaluable heritage. Our purpose,   our primary mission is to elevate the Torah  u'Mitzvot, the Torah, the religious, the Jewish   engagement of our community. We will overcome the  tendency of tension, of division, of competition   that stands so much in the way of the growth  and strength of Klal Yisrael, of our community.