In the 1950s, when I was a young man, I befriended Rabbi Moses Rosen, who was the chief rabbi of Romania. Whenever he came to New York, he prayed in my shul, which was the Fifth Avenue Synagogue, and when we discovered that we both spoke French, it brought us together. We became good friends, our wives became friends, and it was a great friendship for friendship’s sake, as the saying goes.
A celebration marking students’ memorizing 118,547 lines of Mishnayos, Tanya and more, a new Sefer Torah was welcomed to the Cheder Menachem of Los Angeles dedicated by the Menlo family.
For 18 years an anti-Semitic livery driver has been doing time for shooting up a van full of Yeshiva students on the Brooklyn Bridge — and killing Ari Halberstam. Now cops have nabbed his “Palestinian uncle.”
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