מוצ"ש לינקס

Chaim Weiss murder case still open
Yair Hoffman schools Yitzchok Frankfurter
The Jewish Bernie Sanders only Vermonters know...
Your job is literally killing you!
חיים וולדר מזועזע

מאמר כי ידעתיו מכ"ק אדמו"ר המהר"ש, מכ"ק אדמו"ר שלמה זלמן מקאפוסט, מכ"ק אדמו"ר הרש"ב, ומכ"ק אדמו"ר הריי"צ זצוקללה"ה נבג"מ זי"ע - פ' וירא, י"ז מרחשון תשע"ו, שנת הקהל

  מאמר כי ידעתיו השלם

מיטוואך פ' וירא תשע"ו, שנת הקהל

ברוך אמסעל, נכד "הבעל המאור", קריכט צווישען אלטע קברים
מ'האט אנדעקט אמעריקא... חרדים נוצען וואצאפ
כתב סופר שול איז "קם לתחיה", אזוי צו זאגען
ווער איז דער באבאווער רבי און ווער זענען די באבאווער חסידים?
TJW: The tricks of the "trade shuls"
Luc Kordas: Documenting Hasidic Jews in New York

מאנטיקער לינקען

CJR profiles frum newspapers
US Cards finally using fraud-fighting chips
Make this Your convention!
Today's Chassidishe Yungeleit...

Rabbi Shmuel Lew tells us about his life - from Torah Vodaas to London

  Derher - Cheshvan 5776 S Lew Only

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מאמר וירד העיט מכ"ק אדמו"ר הצמח צדק ומכ"ק אדמו"ר שלמה זלמן מקאפוסט ומכ"ק אדמו"ר הרש"ב זצוקללה"ה

  מאמר וירד העיט השלם

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שלוחי אדונינו - אור לגויים

Young shliach Mendel Hurwitz speaks about growing up Jewish. The fact that this light unto the nations is emanating from Hungary, and is the product of the hard work of a Chossid מיוצאי אונגארן, only adds to the nachas. At least for me. We wish the Hurwitzes much continued nachas from Mendel און אלע אנדערע קינדער. On a technical note, if you're using the IE browser and are prompted to either see all or only secure content, click "show all content." That will bring the videos to your screen. With Google Chrome it does not seem to appear, hence the need for the links.



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Thursday Morning Links - (maybe too much Forverts, I agree)

Groundbreaking reporting in the מאמענט magazine. Racism, bullying. When did we ever see such stories and topics in the Heimishe press? The enlightened English magazines, Mishpacha, Ami, have nothing on מאמענט. Amazing times we're living in. (no link to read, buy it at your local newsstand/grocery/mikveh Yid) Source

פארוואס באשליסט א סאטמארער צו ווערן א ציוניסט?
א יעקע בלייבט א יעקע
Yekke Renewal Project
100 יאר טריפענעם פארווערטס ביי די שפיץ פינגער
Nazi past of LI town
Mayim Achronim, Chova?
Reb Uriel Zimmer's Yiddish Tanya
BDE: Bencraft's Stan Goldstein

Only his turf wars are justified, for some reason.... נאר ער מעג

Click Here to listen to the Rebbe Reb Aron of Satmar's pesichas haZman speech. At least the part that we want to hear. Funny how only he was allowed to be mechallel yomtov to daven at Rodney Street. Not him, of course, but his people. They were allowed to fight for עצים ואבנים in the treyfene Amerikeh, but Jews in the Holy Land, can't insist on davening anywhere, lest they invoke the wrath of those who hate us. And the near justification of the killings - it's just plain sickening. We're not discussing the permissibility of going up to the הר הבית, and in a way neither is he. This seems to be a personal vendetta and agenda that he has, to go after the Religious Zionists and all that they believe in at every opportunity. To discredit their theology and to make it א תאוה ווי אלע תאוות, with no basis in anything Jewish, as were his words in the not-so-distant past. But his motives are all very pure, which is why he's in secular courts all these years against his brother Zalman, right?

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POTD - Munkatcher Rebbe, שליט"א, consoling a distraught אלמן

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More Photos of the לויה

Update re: unidentified Chossid with Reb Uriel Zimmer

According to his son Mendel, the man pictured with Reb Uriel Zimmer is his father, Rabbi Dr. Doniel Meyers, o"h, then a young man of some 22 years. He was a son of a respected Ashkenezisher family, a survivor of Thereisenstadt at a VERY young age, and later a talmid of the Lubavitcher Yeshivos in Eretz Yisroel and 770. Also a Shliach of the Rebbe in Holland for many years, and of late in Yerushalayim. The Rebbe contacted Rabbi Meyers to greet Rabbi Zimmer at the airport and to have it covered by the media - hence the pictures of his arrival. RUZ passed away some months later, in the fall of 1961. Here's an article from after his passing. Interestingly enough there's no mention of his relationship with Reb Uriel Zimmer in that article... 

It's Aron Modche's 40th Birthday! and other Monday Links

ארבעים שנה להממשיך
"Rebbe of my past, Pillar of my forever"
3 Cheshvan observed, including at the court of the זקן אדמו"רי רוז'ין
בילגאריי הזכרה אין ברוקלין (also see the comment on the bottom)
The House of 20,000 books וכו'
Old Yemenite Beit Knesset Back In Jewish Hands After 77 Years
גילוי היסטורי מסעיר את העולם החסידי: נחשף ביתו של הבעש”ט בעיר קולומייא

Aankomst Rabbi Uriel Zimmer op Schiphol. - Holland 1961

(Arrival of Rabbi Uriel Zimmer to Schipol) I do not know what the conference in Schiphol, Holland in 1961 was for or about. Maybe UN work? RUZ was handicapped and used a wheelchair. Seen also, with the white tichel, is his Rebbetzin, zol gezunt zein, who is currently was later the wife of Reb Tovia Weisz, currently of the Eda HaCharedis. Also who is the other Hasidic looking Jew walking alongside him? If you do have any information to share, please do!

מים רבים לא יוכלו לכבות - אין מים אלא תורה

די גרויסע אהבת ישראל צו אידן האט ניט געקענט פארלאשען ווערען ביים בריסקער רב

מאמר צהר תעשה לתיבה מכ"ק אדמו"ר הצמח צדק ומכ"ק אדמו"ר המהר"ש ומכ"ק אדמו"ר שלמה זלמן מקאפוסט ומכ"ק אדמו"ר הרש"ב זצוקללה"ה‎‎

  מאמר צהר תעשה לתיבה השלם

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The Munkatcher Rebbe, שליט"א, has a fine sense of, um, humor

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Frankfurter edicated the Sukkos issue of Ami magazine to Reb Burechel Munkatcher. The son Reb Moshe Leib opened himself up as never before, saying that is father was a hero, just as much as Reb Michoel Ber Weissmandl, except he wasn't recognized. He claims his father was not dumped by Munkacher Chasidim after the war, he just was not ready to be stuck with a local chasidus -  Klal yisroel and its  problems were his life now.  It's a very interesting piece. Reb Burechel busied himself finding a answer for the Shoah. Reb Moshe lieb is saying that 2 rebbes were trying to answer the Shoah  The Satmar Rebbe and the Lubavitcher Rebbe.   I don't know which Lubavitcher Rebbe, maybe the Rebbe Rayatz in הקריאה והקדושה.   Reb Burechel was arguing that it's dangerous not to get a answer. It can happen again. היל"ת. The Shoah was a message; if we didn't get the message this time it'll happen again. ר"ל. Reb Moshe Leib is saying that Reb Shmuel Duved Ungar zt"l, the Nitra Ruv, wrote a letter to his father with the title "צדיק יסוד עולם." At the time Reb Burechel was 30 years old. The Munkatcher asked Reb Shmuel Duved's son, Reb shulem moshe, why did his father use such lofty titles when addressing him? He answered: Noach is called tzadik for saving Gentiles,  your father saved thousands of Jews, that's a whole universe. The letter is printed in a pamphlet that Reb Burechel printed for his candidacy for the Tel Aviv Rabbinate. 

So, by "sense of humor" I mean that he doesn't take himself seriously enough. He can do such an interview and not worry about what the world will say. I was as surprised as the next guy when I saw the article. I guess anybody can be rehabilitated these days. מה שלא יעשה השכל יעשה הזמן, as the saying goes. The problem is that - no disrespect intended - the Munkatcher was the one who had a yad in ostracizing his father... Not so the much the Dinover. To be fair the old timers made sure they were fed lies about their father. So it's not that Ami just discovered Reb Burechel and went looking for his next of kin. If you get what I'm saying. Also, Frankfurter most likely, and I'm being very generous here, knows what went on when he was a kid, he knows what they did in Munkatch, he's not someone who grew up outside that circle... They're basically enabling this revision of history that every kid in Boro Park knew about. At least twice a year on Shabbos morning we'd hear that he passed away, and then we'd laugh/cry about the history and how Munkatch skipped a generation. So why now? Beats me. Maybe they've been reading stories and testimony online. Maybe his grandkids asked too many questions? Agav, I like how every picture featured in the article was previously on this blog. Not saying anything, just saying.

  Munkatch Ami mag Sukkos 5776

....אבל אנחנו עמך

HaRav Reb Tuvia Goldstein saw the difference between Chassidim and ליטאים in Siberia....

Reb Tuvia tells us how in Siberia the Litvishe bochurim found excuses and reasons why they were exempt from mitzvos. The Matzos wouldn't have a shiur and it would be too cold to sit in the Sukkah. [He was the pride of Kamenetz and Baranovich before being exiled to Siberia by the Russians in Vilna.] The Chassidim did not seek such excuses and had mesirus nefesh for mitzvos even while in Siberia. He would sing a niggun that he learned from the Lubavitcher Chassidim from Nevel, the Jews who knew not of a reason not to sit in the sukkah, now matter how cold. Reb Tuvia tells us how the Litvishe Bochurim האבען זיך געפטר'ט מיט לומדות.... The Chassidim didn't know of such heterim. He also tells us how the Gr"A and the first misnagdim would never have made the "cherem" if they had seen the (Chabad) Chassidim in Siberia and the mesirus nefesh they had. Something tells me this book doesn't sit well with some in the Misnagdic community.

the cover of the new book

מיכאל אוישי באשרייבט דער שוחט פון זאפאראזשע

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א געשיכטע פון אידישע מסירות נפש פון דורות אין אמאליגען סאוועטן פארבאנד

Beis Rivkah's "charidy" campaign yields a treasure!

The main Beis Rivkah Girls School in Crown Heights, which educates some 2,000 girls, is having major financial difficulties, and is trying to climb out of it. So they started a Charidy campaign to raise a million dollars in 24 hours. All or nothing. To pay teachers for last year. Nothing else. A noble cause, to say the least. It's tough paying teachers when you have a hard time collecting tuition. They're well on their way as of the time of writing this post. $360k in a few hours. And this isn't pledges to be paid in months/years. This needs to be MITB. Maybe that's TMI for some of you. Anyway, what they found lately was this book, embossed with gold letters, and inside we see an inscription from the Rebbe, זי"ע, who at the time  - Elul 5710 - had not officially the mantle of leadership, ווי מ'רופט עס, of Lubavitch. The Rebbe had been appointed נשיא of the Beth Rivkah schools, among many other public missions, after they had been founded in Elul of 5702. Then too Beis Rivkah, which was basically educating many, many Jewish girls for free, had hit a brick wall and was in major debt. A campaign was launched to clear the debts, and those who contribute to the fundraising campaign would be inscribed in this book. It's not clear to me - מי אני ומי אני - if this book of names would be read on the Tziyun of the Frierdige Rebbe, who was nistalek on Yud Shvat of that year, but it would make sense.

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The cover of the book

The Rebbe's כתי"ק