Determining the Needs of the Community and the Means of Financing These Needs: Mahari Mintz and Maharam of Rothenburg. Giving to a Poor Person Without Checking His Legitimacy - Feb 13, 2022 - Reading megillot on Yom Tov in Chassidic shtiblakh. Dershowitz family. Kiddush clubs in Germany centuries ago. Editing the writings of Rishonim. Mahari Mintz on financing the needs of a community based on Maharam of Rothenburg. What are the essential needs of a community and how to determine who pays and how much? The policy that those in need eat meals at various people's homes. The use of voting in Germany to accomplish the financing of community needs. Dealing with those who object to the demands on them. Maharam: Don't embarrass the poor. R. Menashe Klein on collectors who are suspect. Rema: Collectors in shul during davening. R' Menashe Klein was close to Agudah.

Positive and Negative Reactions to the Satmar Rebbe's Viewpoints - Feb 7, 2022 - Avraham had bullion not coins. Gush Katif vegetables. R' Shlomo Carlebach at Lakewood. R. David Hochhauser talks with surviving Jungreis brother about Kastner. Satmar Rebbe meets King Carol. Williamsburg: A Jewish Community in Transition by George Kranzler. Impact of Satmar hakafot. The woman and her picture of the Satmar Rebbe. Conflict in Lithuania today. Legends of the Hasidim by Jerome Mintz. The Conflict between Polish and Hungarian Chassidim. Ruzhin. Satmar dress and peyot. Catholic textbooks. Beard cutting. Pesach salt. Novominsker Rebbe. Emeq Refaim swimming pool. Klausenburger Rebbe attacked. Lubavitcher Rebbe attacked. R' Irwin (Roy) Albert's Pesach car. Chareidi Policewomen. R' Ron Yitzchok Eisenman letter. Kotel and R' Riskin

R' Moshe Feinstein's Opinion About Community Federations Which Collect and Distribute Charity But Are Run by Members of Reform and Conservative. R' Menashe Klein Mishneh Halakhot Responsum 16:68 on the Certification of Charity Collectors - Feb 6, 2022 - R' Soloveitchik on a synagogue accepting a large donation of shares in a business open on Shabbat. Reuben Gross, Shabbat, and Israeli TV tax. How we relate to less observant. Austritt. R' Bomberg. Limud. Igrot Moshe Yoreh Deah 1:149: The Federations and charity. Satmar Rebbe was not arrogant. R' Riskin and mixed prayer services at the Kotel. R' Schneider visits Reform Temple in Boca Raton on Shavuot. Doing business with non-Jews risks non-Jews taking oaths in court. Quality of the people running the Federation. Federations support day schools and Orthodox get back more than they contribute. R' Menashe Klein on certification of collectors using Eliezer and Rivkah (Rebecca) as a precedent. Public reading from scrolls versus printed books.

Kosher Wine. Lower Merion. Gush Katif Lettuce. Tzohar. How and What Girls Learned in the US. Payot. Shtreimels. Metzitzah be-Peh. Mechitzah Height. AID Dispute. The CRC. Kashrut Issues. Der Yid. Anti-Israel Demonstration. Rav Soloveitchik's Response. - Jan 31, 2022 - Wine tasting at winery tours. Lower Merion, and the Kiddush to welcome R' Rakeffet. Why Gush Katif lettuce should be preferred. Beis Rochel schools and the different way girls were taught. Payot. Shtreimels. Metzitzah be-Peh. Height of mechitzah. Artificial insemination donor. Creation of CRC. Rav Rakeffet's dream. The Der Yid newspaper. Satmar is very successful in getting followers, and contributors. Some of the Malakhim join Satmar. Satmar and kashrut. Satmar demonstrates against Israel. Rav Soloveitchik's strong reaction to the demonstration and the Satmar chassid's response. Bishul of wine. Bison meat. R' Herzog's visit to the U.S.

Creating a Central Fund for Collecting and Distributing Charity: Sources Quoted by R' Menashe Klein in Mishneh Halachot, Volume 13, Responsum 173: Kedushat Levi, R' Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg, R' Moshe Feinstein, Taz, Rashba - Jan 30, 2022 - Tzohar and employees in wineries who are Shabbat non-observers. R' Dov Schwartzman and R' Aharon Kotler. Transparent plastic sheet with cantillations to enable Torah reading. Silk screen to "write" Torah. The woman who saved Mir Yeshiva during Six Day War. Various opinions on creation of a central community charity fund to collect and distribute money: Germans will invade Poland if instituted, Kedushat Levi, R' Scheinberg answering R' Shlomo Gruskin, (as an aside: Poverty in Israel is exaggerated), Igrot Moshe: Yoreh Deah, Part 1, Responsum 149, Taz, Rashba. May one use Ruth scroll located in cabinet behind glass window for public reading. Wearing glasses during Birkat Ha-chamah. Dr. David Applebaum in Leningrad visiting Soloveichik family

The Satmar Rav/Rebbe Begins to Create Institutions in the United States: Mikveh, Charities, Beit Midrash, Educational Institutions, and a City - Jan 24, 2022 - Soldier falls asleep on the bus. Malkah's relative who survived. Level of observance of survivors in Israel vs. in U.S. Kastner documentary. German soldiers in Poland during WWI. R' Chayim Rotte (Roth) in the U.S. and Kastner train. Kastner train responsum of R' Yehoshua Mendel Ehrenberg and details of his life. The Malakhim. Torah Vodaath. First modern mikveh for handicapped. Satmar Beit Medrash. Charities. Importance of employment not just learning. No compromise on glatt. Schools for boys, and also for girls. Beth Esther D'satmar. Mixed youth movements. New Square. Kiryas Joel is built. Kiryas Joel has the environment of Eretz Yisrael. Eretz Yisrael is not a geographical concept. R' Yitzchok Hutner Holocaust article in Jewish Observer.

Certification and Documentation by the Community for Persons Collecting Charity in that Community - Jan 23, 2022 - Reminiscing about the Bronx. Charedim in the army. Mishneh Halachot 13:173. Policeman and the chandelier. People who collect charity and secretly keep nothing for themselves. People's needs differ e.g. good food vs. fancy clothing. Supporting someone who was wealthy then became poor in the way he was accustomed. Jay Shapiro. Mar Ukva and his wife hide—from the poor person they helped—inside an oven. Anne Scheiber and Stern College. R' Chanoch Leibowitz' New Years' cards. Every collector must be presumed to be honest. Israeli flag in shul. Creating a Federation for distributing money is a bad idea. The intangible benefit to both donor and recipient when giving charity directly to the person. Sodom. R' Krauss. Jay Shapiro

Kastner Train. The Satmar Rav Decides to Stay in the U.S. and Then Decides on Williamsburg - Jan 17, 2022 - The Rav's Zionism. Merger of Mizrachi and Hapoel HaMizrachi. Machloket in halachah: Being machmir doesn't always help make the decision. Satmar Rav and Agudas Yisroel and R' Kotler. Toilets on the train. R' Yitzchak Shmelkes, Bobover Rebbe and Heter Meah Rabbanim. A woman in Hungary with Kastner. DiMaggio and Engelberg. Satmar Rav's decision: Melakhah no longer done after sunset. Satmar Rav decides on US because of: 1) Partition of Palestine. 2) His visits to US yeshivot convinced him there is a future for Torah in the US (R' Teitz and first Israel election) 3) Weak Torah observance in Israel. Why Williamsburg? Boyaner Rebbe. Purchase of the building in Williamsburg. Shtreimels for his Chassidim not just for him. Rav Soloveitchik letter.

Slaves Owned by Jews. Torah Reading Using a Chumash as an Aid. Did Rav Soloveitchik Sit for Havdalah? Rav Menashe Klein's Responsum in Mishne Halachot Volume 13, Number 173: Certificates of Authenticity for Those Who Collect Money for Charities - Jan 16, 2022 - Lack of responsa on halakhic status of slaves freed in the U.S. Ba'al Kria using a Chumash as an aid. Relying on what we saw Tzadikim do in making halakhic decisions compared to concept of Ma'aseh Rav. Rav Soloveitchik sitting during havdalah, both yes and no. The Rav asking his grandfather, R. Eliyahu Feinstein (Reb Elye Pruzhaner), about Kriat HaTorah. Other Torah reading examples plus reading Megillat Ruth from a scroll. Barry Liberman story. Rav Menashe on providing certificates of authenticity for charity collectors. Photographing the collectors. The community should be checked not the collectors. Rambam Aidut 3:1. Chareidim in Israeli Universities. Rav Rakeffet's car loan. Bava Basra 9a is not applicable. R' Leib Irons. Agnon story.

Satmar Rav: His Parents. Jungreis Family and the Kastner train. R' Moshe Shatzkes. R' Yitzchak Blazer. Satmar Rav Arrives in New York. His Initial Interactions With Various People - Jan 10, 2022 - Walder. What motivated the Satmar Rav. The book HaKanai by Menachem Keren-Katz. How the Jungreis family got on the Kastner train. Satmar Rav's parents and heter meah rabbanim. Rav Moshe Shatzkes, R' Yitzchak Blazer, and the heter meah rabbanim. Brisker family stories. The visit and non-visit of Prime Minister Ben Gurion. R' Yehudah Leib Forer. Stories of Yeshivat Chevron (Hebron). Satmar Rav's ship docks and his reception. How his arrival in New York affected people. Rav Rakeffet and fellow Yeshiva College students go to a Lubavitch farbrengen. R' Yonasan Steif (Shteif) and the Satmar Rav. The Lakewood Yeshiva student who married just before Sukkot, and asked the Satmar Rav a question. The Malakhim and Satmar. Bnei Akiva visits Satmar.