This coming Tuesday night, February 3, 2015 and extending into Wednesday February 4, 2015 is the 156th Yahrzeit of the Kotzker. The following is a piece I wrote last year and did not have a chance to put it on my website. I offer this as my 2015 Yahrzeit speech for the Kotzker. THE KOTZKER …
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Parshas Eikev
The Siege, The Story of Israel and Zionism This morning September 6, 2014, I saw my friend Hart Hasten in Shul. I mentioned to him that I was reading the book, The Siege, The Story of Israel and Zionism, written by Conor O’Brien, an Irish diplomat. Hart Hasten mentioned that he brought in Conor O’Brien …
Binyomin Zev (Theodore) Herzl
Yahrzeit - 20 Tammuz 5664 (1904) May 2, 1860 - July 3, 1904 This past Friday was the 110th Yahrzeit of Binyomin Zev - Theodore Herzl. I did not know about Herzl's Yahrzeit until Elykum Schwartz told me this past Shabbos. I saw in Amos Elon's book, Herzl, that in 1903 the Sefas Emes came out against Herzl and said the Messiah and settlement of …
