History:

20th Century CE 

Collections: R' Rakeffet Jewish History Fall 2023

Description

Rav Hershel Schachter's unique opinions such as 2nd day yom tov, נרות on yom tov in a hotel, milk, locusts, & his meeting with Rav Elyashiv. Coexistence of the secular world & the Torah world in the following: Modern Israel, Rav Hirsch, the Rav & YU, & Ramaz School vs MTA. Comparing Rav Riskin & Rav Meir Shapiro. Rav Elazar Shach & Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva (CLY). Rav Moshe Chaim Lau. Rabbis Lookstein, Goldstein, & Jung. Ten Green Bottles by Vivian Jeanette Kaplan. Why so many Jews did not flee Europe in the earlier years. What happened to the CLY building, the return to and renovation of the building, and its current use. Yiddish theatre. Danny Kaye. Verbal attack on Rav Rakeffet at a sheva berakhot. Red or Dead by Maurice Lamm (Tradition 1962). Chernobyl, Chabad, and Robert Maxwell. Visiting graves. Prime Minister Netanyahu's theological comment on traveling to Uman. What he should have said. Shnipishok cemetery in Vilna. Israel Klausner, קורות בית-העלמין הישן בוילנה (Vilna, 1935; reissued: Jerusalem, 1972). Final years of CLY. Survivors of CLY: Rav Pinchas Hirschprung. Rav Abraham Hershberger of Mexico City, Rav Ehud Meir Abramowitz, Rav Chain Kreiswirth, and Rav Israel Domb.