Showing posts with label Yossele Shumacher. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yossele Shumacher. Show all posts

Monday, January 4, 2016

ציוניסטישער סטרעטינער רבי - דעמאלט אין פראווידענס ר"א - באקלאגט זיך צו הרב הענקין אז די פארכאפונג פון יוסעלע שוכמאכער מאכט אהן א חורבן אין ארץ ישראל פאר פרומע אידן

We wrote about him and his Etzel connections back in 2012. I guess you might say that he sold out to the Zionists he so loved. But he saw what was happening as destroying what frum Jews had succeeded in building in the Holy Land over the previous decade or so. [ He goes on to tell him how Yidden in EY are good and want to be close to the Eybershter, we just need to be mekarev them, not like the Jews from Meah Shearim who sow division, etc. ] The thousands of Lomdei Torah. The fact that every town, city and village had a Rov with a beard and peyos. That the kitchens in the IDF are kosher and closed on fast days! All this would be destroyed for one child. You can use a microscope to look at the bad, but that wouldn't be the real story, he says. He then pleads with Rav Henkin to use his influence to return Yosselle to his parents. His zeide would then be released from prison, the family would reconcile, and Yossele would eventually get a Torah education.

Source: Take the time to read these 2 pages.



Monday, December 28, 2015

2 recent articles about the Yosselle Schuchmacher saga and the Lubavitch connection

Sholom Shtroks, son of Nachman and uncle of Yosselle Schumacher, recently passed away. He was directly involved in the saga of not returning Yosselle to his parents and even sat in jail for what seems like almost three years, until he was pardoned by the newly elected President Shazar. The following are two articles recently published about Sholom and about the meetings that took place between the Rebbe and a delegation of Satmarer Rabbonim in 770.