I just finished watching the 1993 movie, Gettysburg. It is a 4:31 minute movie. Excellent movie. Interesting that per IMDb the estimated budget of $25,000,000, the USA gross was only $10,769,960.
Category: My Life
Posts about people I meet and my happenings
Gettysburg: Hallowed Ground
The next day after the Caplan wedding, I decided to visit Gettysburg as it is one hour north-west of Baltimore and on the way to Chicago. I am fascinated by the Civil War and have always wanted to visit Civil War battle sites. I stayed to absorb the battle scene. It is hallowed ground and I had …
BALTIMORE – A Jewish Wedding
July 27, 2013 - Saturday Night 10:30 PM - Motzei Shabbos: Left Chicago for a 12 hour drive to Baltimore for Nachum Caplan’s wedding. I had 15 hours to make the afternoon wedding in Baltimore. 2:15 PM Kabulis Ponim and 3:00 PM Chuppah. I folded the seats in the second and third row so I would have a comfortable …
Shabbos Nachumu
This Shabbos is the greatest Shabbos of the year, Shabbos Nachumu. I remember as a kid looking at the Jewish Press and reading the ads for Shabbos Nachumu weekend in the Catskills and wanted to go. I recommend Rabbi Shamshom Refoel Hirsh’s book on Haftorah. His thoughts ring true to today. His optimism, saying the …
LA Shuls
I fell in love with Los Angeles on January 16, 1994. It was a Sunday morning and I had just flown in from Chicago to visit my father. It was 20 degrees, grey, and dreary in Chicago. This was my first time in Los Angeles. I was driving along the Santa Monica Freeway, listening to …
Our Posek is Auschwitz, Dachau, and going hungry for 5 days
11 Tamuz: Tonight and tomorrow is my father’s 11th Yahrzeit. My father’s will states: Upon donations made with my money the following shall be stated: “This is a donation from the late Mr. Israel J. Morgenstern, who was continuously hungry since September 1, 1939, when Hitler and his German army with his German Luftwaffe (air …
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Whirlwind of Simchos
TIME I had a wonderful May and June. It was a whirlwind of family Simchos and I was able to visit with most of the family. The kids are going to be okay. I met a number of Rabbonin and people much greater than me, including but not limited to: Rabbi Jonathan Gross, Rov of …
Korach (and family email)
This is an e-mail sent to my family on 6/29/2008. A beautiful Vort on this week's sedra is in the e-mail. From: Mitch Morgenstern Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 8:35 PM To: Mitch Morgenstern Subject: Update It has been a while. I hope everyone if fine. It is a quarter-end at work and I am …
Omaha, Nebraska
This past Shabbos I spent a wondrous weekend in Omaha, Nebraska by my cousins, Rabbi Jonathan Gross and his wife, Miriam, and their three lovely kids. I left Chicago on Thursday, May 23, 2013 at 6:00 PM and arrived in Omaha at 3:30 AM. I let myself in their house and went to sleep. Relationship: 1) …
The Yunge Bubbe’s Yahrzeit and Family News
Today is the Yahrzeit of my mother’s grandmother, (Alta) Chana Henya Sklar , who left this world on the first of Iyar, April 27, 1933. (Alta) Chana Henya Sklar was the mother of my Zeidi, Reb Sholom Sklar. She was known as the Yunge Bubbe (young grandmother). The Alte Bubbe (older grandmother) was the mother of …
