First place I saw it was on the Yiddish Forverts site... Ironic.
What I mean to say is that despite it happening on Shabbos it went largely unnoticed till Tuesday in the frum press. The press that he was so prominent a member of. On Monday the Forverts reported it first.
Ah Tayereh Yeed, a great "Ridaktir" (IMO Dos Yiddish Vort was of consistently higher quality than the Jewish Observer)and an incredibly interesting shmoozer.
ReplyDeleteWill the magazine die with him?
I once heard him speak. Ah emese gishmake yid.
ReplyDeleteThe last agudist @ the agudah.
Fishof and werdiger still visit, but aren't party learders / staff members.
BDE!
ReplyDeleteI will miss him
Efsher ken men shreiben "Geshtorben" in quotation marks, Dokh Mehr Ba'Kovod'ig.
ReplyDeleteIkh mein oif ayer site, Ikh mein nisht Forwards
Reb Charles
ReplyDeleteאיר זעהט דאך אז איך האב עס "קאפיערט" פון די פארווערטס וועבזייטל
sorry for nitpicking but matzav had it on Motzei Shabbos. http://matzav.com/reb-yosef-friedenson-zl
ReplyDeleteyou should imbed the interview he gave to boris sandler.not everybody reading the blog will click a title
ReplyDeletehttp://moshemoshel72.blogspot.com/2013/02/chatzkele-lekovod-shabbos-unmasked.html?m=1
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ReplyDeletesorry, I forgot about Matzav