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SrNGu-: !'OPY S:;.50: OUTSIDE NY AIH·:.A S3.95: FOHFIGN S4.50. 17 THE STORY BEHIND THE E.5ROG, POSTMASTER: ;:\ri Z /\ND Ari Greenspan SEND ADl)HFSS C!IANGFS T(): rF1. 212-797-9000. F .... x 646-2s4-1600 l'RlNTED IN Tiff. IJSA 23 FOOD FOR THOUGHT-·" A TiSHREI PERSPECTIVE, Cit Gld.SCI RABBI N!SSON \X.'(JJ.P!N, !:'di/Ill tilttoria/ Hoorrl 27 "WHY AP.tN'T Au_ RELIGIOUS JEWS VEGETARl/i,Ns?" RABBI JoSF.l'!I EU.'\S, C/10inn11n RAIHH AlHlA BRUDNY ,\1!1rrarn i\ostncH! JOSEP!-1 FRJFDENSON RABBI Y!SIHHCL MEIR l\:l!U.Nl':ll R"'IUH NossoN Sc11ERMAN LETTER FROM JERUSALEM l'ROI'. AARON TWEJ~SKI founders 31 SEPARATE SWIMMING AND Hi>.RVARD AND Us, Du. ERNST L BoDENl-l!C!Mf:R Z~L Yonoson H.osenb!un1 R".B1J1 MosHt·: S11un:R z~1 ,\Janaqcmc11/ /3oard 34 DIALOGUE IN HARMONY, NAFTOl.l ll!RSCH, !SA1\(; K!!lZNFll. RABHJ SU LO MO Ll·:SIN. f'v'frs. Arn1fpe Jakobovits AND Flabhi Yoe! Schonfeld Mns. 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DINNEN © (OPYRJGHT 2008 HAS !';OT BEEN llANNED. THIS !S WHY WE ACCEPT AOVEllTISF.ME"ITS 77 /lirriqa Rood LISTING WEHSITE ADDHJ'.SSES. BUT IN NO WAY DOES THIS IMPLY f!IAT /Jr·l/n-11c Ifill. NS\V 202;;. AU~'/RAUA THE GFDOL!M OR 'fHr·: JEWISH OnsER\/U{ CONDO;\'~. CASllAL \)SF. OF OCTOBER 2008 VOLUME XLI l"Hl·: l'.';TEH:>i"ET. NO. 7 I L--·---··------ ----·------~-- ---~ 0CTOHER 2008 REMEMBERING RABBI AHRON KREISER, 'n11 I recall in wonder the time when I durl g Simchas Torah of my first year To the Editor: spent a Shabbos with them. I got up in the in yeshiva. In his engaging article, "Miner Image" morning for davening and, what did I see? The Mirrer Yeshiva at that time was (Apr. '08), Yaacov Polskin devoted special Reb Abron, who is kulo Torah, bringing housed in a rented shul on Ashford Street, space to Rabbi Ahron Kreiser, 7"lll. I cake and coffee to his wife in bed! East New York. It was a baalebatishe shul would like to add that Reb Ahron Kreiser As I said, we were in a yeshiva in with fixed benches and there was almost was an outstanding member of an eJite France where Reb Abron taught. The no space for dancing except in the aisles group of Mirrer talmidim. Most of that yeshiva was housed in a solitary villa, in between the benches, or in back of the group became roshei yeshivas. These were the middle of a steep hill. It was the only bima. Reb Abron had a chavrusa by the Reb Nachum Partzovitz, Reb Nachum building around. One day, a ferocious name of Yidel Dikstein, who had taken Lesman, Reb Osher Lichtstein, Reb Zvi storm broke out. Lightning and thunder in more than his ordinary share of spirits Shalom Shapiro, Reb Shmnel Berenbaum, can1e in quick succession, and torrents that bring joy. All of a sudden, Reb Yidel Reb Nachum Nachamchik, Reb Reuven of water flowed down the hill, giving the pulled Reb Ahron into that space and Fine, Reb Boruch Rosenberg and many impression that it would not take long danced in front of him (similar to the others whose names I no longer remem until the mighty flood would wash the manner in which Reb Elchonon danced ber. They could not attain what they did building, together with us, to the bottom before the Chafetz Chaim) and then start without being masmidim, but Reb Ahron of the hill. To aggravate matters further, ed yelling" Va'anachnu kor'im umishtacha was a super-masmid. Nothing existed in the power lines fell down and the building vim umodim lifnei Reb Ahron:' This was his world except for learning. It is against was enveloped in darkness. We were 25 obviously in recognition of Reb Ahron's this background that his gemillas chessed teenage boys, mostly Holocaust orphans, gad/us in Torah, of which his chavrusa was should be judged. Nothing existed except and the others far from family - alone 1nore aware than anyone else. for learning, as long as it applied to him. in the world. Not a single staff member Dov LEDE!Uv!AN The most wondrous thing is that the min happened to be there except for Reb Bnei Brak ute it applied to others, he would leave Ahron. He got a candle out of nowhere, the world in which he was engrossed and sat us down at the dining room table and WHOM AND WHERE REB which was his entire life, and try to help regaled us with stories about Shanghai, AHRON TAUGHT others, as outlined in that article.