Rav Sholom Schwadron’s reputation as a maggid stemmed from his natural public speaking talents Title: The Voice of the Maggid Location: Jerusalem, Israel Document: Yahrtzeit Sign Time: November 1954 One Friday night in 1952, a brilliant 40-year-old talmid chacham named Rav Sholom Schwadron made his way from his modest two-room home in Jerusalem’s Shaarei Chesed neighborhood
Rav Isser Zalman’s legacy of Torah aristocracy, communal leadership, along with his boundless kindness for others, remains with us until this very day Location: Jerusalem, Israel Document: Partial list of Eitz Chaim students Time: 1942 From his formative years in Volozhin and Slabodka through his decades of leadership in Slutzk, to his commanding presence in
In 1806 Napoleon called for an assembly of Jewish leaders to form what he referred to as a “Sanhedrin”
The generous Gunzburgs supported a wide array of Jewish institutions, religious, social, and educational organizations
“Yet who mourns the death of the chassidic rabbi of Plotzk? Who but a few fellow Jews even took notice of it?”
His experiences on this journey so impressed him that he committed himself to religious observance
