chabadnik.com brings this story today
COL also ran the story
The good Rabbi "farhering" a class (You gotta love the Tcheiles on the Tallis Koton of the melamed)
Koristin is near Vilednik, where a large group visits in Teves for the Yohrtzeit of the Shearis Yisroel zt"l.
Rabbi Aron Leib Berger,(left)("chief Rabbi"?) of Koristin greeting Chief Rabbi HaRav Ezriel Chaikin of THE Ukraine, (right.)
Wasn't Rabbi Bleich the Chief Rabbi?
ReplyDeleteI dont know who the chief Rabbi is, but this is certainly a BIG Rabbi.
ReplyDeletethe Chief Rabbi is on the right.
ReplyDeleteThe 'self appointed' chief rabbi.
ReplyDeleteOnly Chabad are 'allowed to appoint rabbis in the former Soviet Union, even if someone else was already there
Malach
ReplyDeleteI assume you mean Rabbi Bleich? was he appointed for life?
The Rabbonim from Kehillos in Ukraine voted for Rabbi Chaikin.
For a real mess, check out the matzav in the Mahara"l and Noda B'Yehuda's home town.
ReplyDeletesnags
ReplyDeletewhy the glee in your post?
are you excited to see disarray?
Hirshey,
ReplyDeleteIt's not glee - its cynicism.
Actually I come from a Lubavitcher family, but I have given up on that scene and joined the ranks of the great undefined. It's the cynicism has led me to the moniker "Go Snags."