tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post2575805837705085990..comments2024-01-21T02:58:08.208-05:00Comments on On the Main Line: Henry Kissinger and Rabbi Moshe Sherer secretly discuss matzah.Mississippi Fred MacDowellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02734864605700159687noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-80986442993651555052010-09-02T12:46:22.303-04:002010-09-02T12:46:22.303-04:00Kol hakovod for bring this document to light. The...Kol hakovod for bring this document to light. The non-kashrut of whatever matzah the Soviets were allowing to be baked at that time was fairly well-known in religious Western Jewish circles. Agudath Israel, with its orientation very different from Modern Orthodox, was very much shtadlanut-oriented on Soviet Jewry through the mid-1980s. <br /> - Glenn Richter<br /> (former national coordinator, Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry)Glenn Richternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-60656716732223115862010-09-02T12:43:57.654-04:002010-09-02T12:43:57.654-04:00Then there was noted gangster Arnold Rothstein, &q...Then there was noted gangster Arnold Rothstein, "the J. P. Morgan of the underworld," who came from a frum family and whose hesped in 1928 was delivered by Rabbi Leo Jung. I wish the transcript were available.Dan Kleinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-10148018237649969142010-09-02T11:41:10.319-04:002010-09-02T11:41:10.319-04:00Wow. That is actually quite cool. [I dont see the ...Wow. That is actually quite cool. [I dont see the disgusting part] Beirush ben R'Mordechai Halevi. Just one more name among a hundred other plaques. Makes your realize simultaneosuly that "just one guy" can have a big impact on the world, but also that, in the end, you are just another guy, amid a never ending succession, who will eventually fade away. Very contemplative.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-27129747570510538702010-09-02T10:38:34.329-04:002010-09-02T10:38:34.329-04:00On the subject of plaques, here is Bugsy Siegel...On the subject of plaques, here is Bugsy Siegel's yahrzeit plaque in the Lower East Side. Kind of disgusting, but also kind of cool:<br /><br />http://benatlas.com/2009/12/our-master-and-teacher-bugsy-siegel/S.http://onthemainline.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-47917894417892943782010-09-02T09:39:40.693-04:002010-09-02T09:39:40.693-04:00I think she did go to Breurers. On the subject of ...I think she did go to Breurers. On the subject of plaques, but otherwise completely unrelated, in Rabbi Wackslack's shul in Long Beach there's a plaque dedicated by Charles Krauthammer.<br /><br />DFAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-44649006865736629442010-09-01T18:20:53.406-04:002010-09-01T18:20:53.406-04:00Someone can probably corroborate my memory of seei...Someone can probably corroborate my memory of seeing a jahrzeit plaque for his mother Paula (d. 1998) in the Breuer shul in the Heights.Dan Kleinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-52143976397660331822010-09-01T02:11:04.112-04:002010-09-01T02:11:04.112-04:00I've seen it as well. But if Kissinger was act...I've seen it as well. But if Kissinger was actually a *member* he should have known better, unless he was (or became) a total am ha'aretz.Nachumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11292162031685942549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-38619668689391494432010-09-01T02:04:45.567-04:002010-09-01T02:04:45.567-04:00"Agudath" as a shortened reference to &q..."Agudath" as a shortened reference to "Agudath Israel" is a vulgarism that I've seen before. Not everybody is up on the grammatically proper use of "semikhuth."Dan Kleinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-44439922336368978542010-08-31T20:36:19.393-04:002010-08-31T20:36:19.393-04:00R. Josh Waxman's report is only a second hand ...R. Josh Waxman's report is only a second hand report made thirty years ago about a completely different city. Lo maileh vilo moired.<br /><br />DFAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-87633274360575973952010-08-31T17:09:38.735-04:002010-08-31T17:09:38.735-04:00I didn't see Kissinger ask him to prove it. Bu...I didn't see Kissinger ask him to prove it. But I suppose it's possible if it includes entire families.S.http://onthemainline.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-38773132187834710742010-08-31T17:06:14.069-04:002010-08-31T17:06:14.069-04:0075,000 dues-paying members? In 1976?75,000 dues-paying members? In 1976?BHBnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-68687681244758810362010-08-31T16:08:24.685-04:002010-08-31T16:08:24.685-04:00Phil, thanks for being my typo police. ;-)
I don&...Phil, thanks for being my typo police. ;-)<br /><br />I don't want to reveal all my trade secrets publicly, so why don't you email me?S.http://onthemainline.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-25195212642714476972010-08-31T14:31:26.318-04:002010-08-31T14:31:26.318-04:00Anonymous, I don't see voting here. I see &quo...Anonymous, I don't see voting here. I see "Dr. Kissinger, we know you really don't like the JDL or Jackson-Vanik. Neither do we. We're the *good* Jews."<br /><br />OK, sometimes you have to say stuff like that. But it's distasteful nonetheless.Nachumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11292162031685942549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-16868943222011459172010-08-31T13:46:52.667-04:002010-08-31T13:46:52.667-04:00See my edit.See my edit.S.http://onthemainline.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-62706352723366507822010-08-31T12:58:57.863-04:002010-08-31T12:58:57.863-04:00I think Sherer had to push the "some people m...I think Sherer had to push the "some people might not look upon as kosher" line because otherwise he could get tangled up in disputes with other people who claim it is kosher. When dealing with Gentiles of secular Jews, it's wiser to avoid these types of situations.Fotheringay-Phippsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-7114348578895614672010-08-31T12:39:12.319-04:002010-08-31T12:39:12.319-04:00oops! no, not Sherer. a different source, whom I k...oops! no, not Sherer. a different source, whom I know personally. sorry for the mixup.<br /><br />kt,<br />joshjoshwaxmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05149022516101476797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-59947616822505275332010-08-31T04:29:02.540-04:002010-08-31T04:29:02.540-04:00Kissinger is familiar with "Agudath"? Pe...Kissinger is familiar with "Agudath"? Perhaps that the transcriber's error.<br /><br />You gotta love how Sherer makes himself out as the good guy, as opposed to all those loud and annoying Jews pushing for Jewish issues (the JDL, Jackon-Vanik, etc.) that Kissinger doesn't like. Lovely.Nachumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11292162031685942549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-30413394947901726262010-08-31T01:26:15.139-04:002010-08-31T01:26:15.139-04:00> "because of our meticulous requirements,...> "because of our meticulous requirements, many people do not look at is kosher." <br /><br />Should say: "...do not look upon it as kosher."<br /><br />There's also a "Tthe" typo in the post.<br /><br />> "Here is an interesting declassified document from 1976. "<br /><br />Would you care to describe how you came across the document?<br />-PhilAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com