Thursday, June 27, 2013

RJJ Newsletter - July 2013

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I have completed forty years as president of the Rabbi Jacob Joseph School. In 1973, we were in our death throes after nearly three-quarter...
Friday, May 11, 2012

Remembrances and Reflections – Number 11 - An Extraordinary Servant

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Apart from Schick’s Bakery, my first job was at Barton’s Candy. The bakery should not count because it obviously was a family arrangement a...
Sunday, April 15, 2012

Remembrances and Reflections IX - A Shabbos in Jerusalem

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In the 1950s, Rav Aharon Kotler generally went to Israel every several years, invariably during the Bein Hazmanim period when yeshiva was of...

Remembrances and Reflections VIII - Rav Aharon and the Rav

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As I was standing outside the home of Rav Shneuer Kotler during shiva on a brutally hot early July night in Lakewood, a car pulled up and tw...

Remembrances and Reflections VII - Rabbis and Deans

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For nearly all of the first half of the last century, Orthodox leaders in North America were, in the main, congregational rabbis. These wer...

Remembrances and Reflections VI

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Fifteen years after he came to live in the United States and set out to build Torah in this land in fulfillment of the vision of Rav Chaim V...

Remembrances and Reflections V - The Battle Over Women’s Draft in Israel

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As the 1950s opened, Agudath Israel was in an accommodationist mode in Israel, serving in the government and accepting the notion that Israe...