R' Abba Bronspiegel: Stories from his life. 1960 class picture. R' David Miller & the opera. NY Times article on Brooklyn eruv. Biography of R' Chaim Hezekiah Medini and description of his composition: Sdei Chemed. Use of mirror. No one today has Talmid Chakham status. A beard is required. Wearing bekishe בעקישע. Events in Ottoman Empire showed beard needed to resist deterioration into non-observance. Modesty, e.g. at the beach, now versus 100 years ago. Frequent use of vulgar language. Mishneh Halachot, volume 9: קצא. Women's mikveh in a somewhat dangerous location. Is a "carpool" permissible for women to go as a group? The bungalow colony disturbing story. Rema: Secrecy when women go to mikveh. Sephardic women do the opposite for a kalah.
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