I used to think that the Milchig restaurants and dairy producers were making...
And let's not forget the newspapers, magazines and websites that enable them.... With their fancy ads and recipes. Cheese dripping and melting ice cream. But then I started paying attention to the...
View ArticleTopics we didn't cover here in the not-so-distant past. Not necessarily in...
1) The Crown Heights Eruv.Is it about the eruv, really? Or is it a generation of young people who in general want life/Yiddishkeit to be easy. They say they follow the Rebbe's directives, but that the...
View Articleדי קארלינער און סלאנימער אין טבריא - היו ימים
A little piece of history about the Stolin-Slonim cold war in pre-State Tiberias and how Rav Kook and Reb Moshe Kliers, darling of the zealots, got together to help end - albeit temporarily - an...
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מקדש מלך עיר מלוכהטאטע שענק אונז אביסל מנוחהס׳מיר דארט מער ניחאא דירה סרוחה אונטער דיין שויס מידך הפתוחהקומו צאו מתוך ההפיכהאוי! די דאלאר-געטשקע, דער עגל מסיכהלאמיר קערן א וועלט, לאמיר מאכן א...
View Articleחינוך עצמאי דינער - 1956-תשט"ז
Via MatzavHighlights include: Irving Bunim "twists" Reb Yoshe Ber's arm and gets him to speak despite telling him beforehand that he wouldn't. Reb Yosher Ber speaks of the extremists who tried to keep...
View ArticleWhen the holy Brezhner Ruv R' Shulem Neuschloss met the holy Skverer Rebbe...
And told him His uncle Reb Moshe the Ruv of New Square gave cake and spirits in Shul the day he turned 70. The holy Rebbe acts shocked. I wonder why he's so shocked. He doesn't know what his zeide did,...
View ArticleReb Chaim Ayzer af Datshe and interesting links
היי-יאר, איכה אויף יידישAnother Holocaust Museum in Boro Park?Look! A shiksa!Move Outside the city and they'll write an article about you
View ArticleThank G-d! We have people like this to show us how G-d's Torah is correct....
And it make such perfect sense too, right? I mean droves of two and three year olds left Yiddishkeit due to the Haskoloh and Zionism, right? They had a million and a half members of children in those...
View ArticleHaRav Reb Chaim Sofer gives his blessing for expansion
In this sefer'l - compliments of the $1 table at Pinter's in BP - they have an article that was printed in the Belzer periodical אור הצפון about Reb Yitzchok Tzvi Ratzersdorfer, a talmid of the כתב...
View Article!!ראו זה דבר חדש
NEW! לשמע אוזן available again! Available after being out of print for over 20 years. Over 500 authentic Chassidishe stories as recorded by Reb Zalman Duchman a”h. Translated into a clear Hebrew from...
View Articleחנוכת הבית - בנין ישיבת פוניבז' - תשי"ג
בנוכחותו האדיבה של כבוד נשיא המדינה מר יצחק בן-צבי ורעיתו יחיו
View Articleסאטמאר און חינוך עצמאי: א מאדנער שידוך
See Hereרבינו סר מן הדרךMeeting at the Ruby Schron officesאלף ילדים צרפתים נרשמו למוסדות חינוך חרדייםFirst there's this strange interest in French Jewry. They're not authentic-looking like the תימנים,...
View ArticleTzedokoh and מאדעס - a brotherly conversation
It's a bit out of character that of all people davka the Gorlitzer Ruv was ready to emigrate to the USA to bring back the masses to Yiddishkiet. It's almost unbelievable that he should feel such a deep...
View ArticleThe Belzers and their own accounts of history
Received via email:Hirshel: Have you seen this? They have a long article on a Rabbonim convention against the Pilsudski decree. They claim that the Belzer Ruv Reb Aron was behind the whole אסיפה even...
View ArticleHow did RYY of Skver know about Shakespeare?!
Received via e-mail:Hirshel: Someone told me that in this week's ami Mayer Schiller eulogizes his friend the Hollywood actor Steven Hill. Not before he retells his own life's story....They were both...
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