Daily Archives: November 23, 2005

Tonight: Fifty Years of Alumni

Oholei Torah reminds all its alumni, including the bochurim of last few years to join in the Alumni Reunion tonight. The program is full of surprises and special guest speakers including prominent Shluchim and askanim. The Alumni office will be launching a new project to benefit Oholei Torah Alumni at the reunion.

During the reunion a special tribute will be made in memory of Reb Michoel Teitelbaum, o”h, and the farbrengen will also be the opening for the Shnas Hachamishim celebrations in Oholei Torah Don’t miss this historic event!

No More Honking on Kingston Ave.

A few new signs went up on Kingston and President, Kingston and Union and Kingston and Eastern Pkwy. the signs read “Don’t Honk – $350 Penalty”.

Now as most of you know of the ticket blitzing that keeps on going on in our neighborhood [where crime is always at its lowest], well this is just another warning for something that they have the new ability to “catch you on” [a pretty expensive catch].

So for all you drivers, please make sure to wear your seat belts and use your phone with a hands free kit or just don’t use it, and now don’t use your horn either.

Oholei Torah Administration Responds to the Accidents

After the 2 accidents involving students from the school [one on a bike, the other was 2 walking home on Shabbos] the administration put up a peculiar note on the “Zal” billboard.

Gulag Survivor Relays What He Withstood in Defense of Judaism

Like so many other Chasidim living in the Soviet Union, Baruch Mordechai Lifshits was a target of the authorities from an early age. So, it came as no surprise when the 21-year-old, just newly engaged, found a swarm of KGB agents looking for evidence of his “subversive teachings.”

They came to his home – displaying a piece of paper indicating they had been watching the Moscow-based shochet and mohel – and barked, “Where are the Jewish books?”

As the now 89-year-old Brooklyn resident relayed to some 20 students and professors at the University of Pennsylvania on Nov. 10, the walls of his home were filled with volumes of the Talmud, commentaries on the Torah and books on halachah.