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Tuesday, December 07, 2021

V Is for (Rabbi) Vorhand

He possessed an ability to “get things done” 

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Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Home Sweet Home

"These are now our children, the children of the entire Jewish nation"

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Tuesday, November 23, 2021

Raising Rav Aharon Leib

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Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Remembering Reb Dovid

He did not believe that American yeshivah youth were any less yirei Shomayim than their Eastern European counterparts

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Tuesday, November 09, 2021

Draining the Swamp

Though the city of Chadera eventually developed a secular character, in the 1960s a branch of the Novardok yeshivah opened in Chadera

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Tuesday, November 02, 2021

Son of the Ramaz

Ramaz expressed gratitude to Hashem for giving him his son for an additional 32 years

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Tuesday, October 26, 2021

The Boston Torah Party

Brisk in Boston

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Tuesday, October 19, 2021

Rav Leizer Yudel’s Stamps and Letterheads

The interwar period was marked by constant traveling on behalf of the yeshivah, which necessitated stamps in no less than four languages

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Tuesday, October 12, 2021

Captain Jacob Joseph: Rabbinic Scion, American Hero

Following the death of his son, Lazarus Joseph initiated the first regular minyan in the State Capitol building in Albany to recite Kaddish

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Tuesday, October 05, 2021

Rushing Out of Russia

The outbreak of World War I on August 1 stymied his plans, stranding him in Europe for the better part of a year

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Wednesday, September 29, 2021

Sabbathville, USA

The idyllic shtetl life that made observance possible seemed a distant memory