Shtadlanim: Zev Wolfson (1928-2012)
Asked by a senior official at Morgan Stanley how he had made his money, he answered without hesitation, “God gave it to me.”
Asked by a senior official at Morgan Stanley how he had made his money, he answered without hesitation, “God gave it to me.”
Many said of Mike that they never met someone who suffered as he did from another Jew’s pain, and those closest to him attest that he was never the same after what he had experienced in the DP camps.
Mike Tress’s passion brought Agudath Israel of America into existence; his cousin Rabbi Moshe Sherer’s strategic acumen, administrative savvy, and unrivalled people skills forged Agudath Israel into a large, highly effective organization.
Those who described Rabbi Neuberger as a second father attested that he rejoiced in their every success as if it were his own, without the possibility of any admixture of jealousy.
Jewish Week reporter Steve Lipman sent more than a few shockwaves through the Orthodox world with his recent article on texting on Shabbos by teenagers educated in Orthodox institutions. He reported on a Shabbaton at which fourteen of the seventeen teenagers present were texting one another. So common is the phenomenon that it even has […]
As our Jeep bounces violently through a valley somewhere in the Jordan Valley, we spot a group of about fifteen khaki-clad soldiers on a nearby hill. The soldiers have been stationed on the hill