Friday, August 08, 2014

Ma'ot chitim

Here's a wonderful appeal for matzot on behalf of prisoners, from 1899.


3 comments:

  1. "There are, alas, many Hebrews in State-prisons." Alas indeed. Were many of them rabbis and community leaders? If not, we can congratulate ourselves for the higher quality of Hebrew prisoners we've got nowadays.

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  2. I had never heard of Rabbi Radin before. Google search of Rabbi Adolph Radin is fascinating.

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  3. Now now, some fo them are just in the top 10 Most Wanted list of the FBI. (Two rabbis if you count Top 20 but they were "working" together.)

    http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/wcc
    http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/wcc/aryeh-greenes/view
    http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/wcc/aviv-mizrahi/view

    Maybe Aviv is related to Jose.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Pereira_Mendes#Shooting

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