tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13326001.post8474597415702636873..comments2024-03-02T03:29:09.759-05:00Comments on SerandEz and Friends: The TIDE Turning?...Ezziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494592434522239195noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13326001.post-1132566406546237432008-07-04T01:17:00.000-04:002008-07-04T01:17:00.000-04:00>I just don't uunderstand why everyone is celebrat...>I just don't uunderstand why everyone is celebrating the 200th anniversary of his BIRTH.<BR/>Usually we reflect on the yahrtzeit...<BR/>Is there a minhag I'm unaware of<<BR/><BR/>Who wants to wait that long?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13326001.post-24314843914699123962008-07-03T06:30:00.000-04:002008-07-03T06:30:00.000-04:00The best article ever written on Hirsch’s everlasi...The best article ever written on Hirsch’s everlasing impact is by Rabbi Y. Frankfurter which was recently published in Mishpacha Magazine. I enjoyed it immensely. Click here: http://www.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/rsrh/mishpacha_rsrh.pdfMeyerWolfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12400961613964012148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13326001.post-24571913581805203482008-06-29T22:29:00.000-04:002008-06-29T22:29:00.000-04:00Cloojew, with respect, get a clue. Yeesh. Are th...Cloojew, with respect, get a clue. Yeesh. Are the values being stuffed down the average black hatter and sem girl's throats in line with those advocated by Rav Hirsch?! Come on.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13326001.post-67749946316435328402008-06-29T22:03:00.000-04:002008-06-29T22:03:00.000-04:00While the incident is another setback for the alre...While the incident is another setback for the already fragile and fraying Washington Heights/KAJ community, Rav Mantel said nothing that any Torah authority would argue with: We must be directed by the leaders of our time. "Dor dor vedorshov."<BR/><BR/>The German-Jewish absorption into the melting pot of Orthodox Jewish America appears now to be nearing completion. Much of the Washington Heights community blended into Monsey(which has its own KAJ) and other communities. For the most part, all the yekkes I grew up with are, today, indistinguishable from all the other yeshiva guys I went to school with.<BR/><BR/>Yekkes are barely any longer a distinct "community," not because they haven't tried, but because the culture of the United States, in all its democratic glory and fiscally upward mobility, does not lend itself to those sorts of enclaves.<BR/><BR/>Fortunately, none of that matters. What the Yekkeshe community can take pride in - and this is, lulei demistafina, the ultimate trophy - is that Torah Im Derech Eretz is the de facto standard of American Orthodoxy.<BR/><BR/>Most of us go to work, speak unaccented English, and are friendly and honest with the "outside" world. Again, that's most of us. Even in Lakewood, the vast majority of heads of households are not sitting in Kollel but hold jobs that require them to deal with the outside world. Lakewood is not the ghetto that it is perceived - nor that it perceives itself - to be.<BR/><BR/>Two centuries later, Rav Hirsch has won not only the battle, but also the war.CJ Srullowitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01851508109666827492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13326001.post-56245163735436524122008-06-29T17:54:00.000-04:002008-06-29T17:54:00.000-04:00I just don't uunderstand why everyone is celebrati...I just don't uunderstand why everyone is celebrating the 200th anniversary of his BIRTH.<BR/>Usually we reflect on the yahrtzeit...<BR/>Is there a minhag I'm unaware of?Shmuelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08623549507370220071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13326001.post-12500897626072796932008-06-29T15:06:00.000-04:002008-06-29T15:06:00.000-04:00As a former Breuer's girl, I am saddened, but not ...As a former Breuer's girl, I am saddened, but not surprised. It is still such a wonderful community. Simple, cultured, principled Jews.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13326001.post-53324858227472621862008-06-27T05:26:00.000-04:002008-06-27T05:26:00.000-04:00As someone whose child attends the school, I'm gla...As someone whose child attends the school, I'm glad that the people running the elementary don't agree with Rabbi Mantel.<BR/><BR/>Scraps - there are (somewhat vague) plans to eventually re-open the girl's HS, as I understand. The average class size is up and they're getting a lot of families from outside Washington Heights again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13326001.post-76122227418071332282008-06-26T19:01:00.000-04:002008-06-26T19:01:00.000-04:00Note: the above was written by a ghost person.Note: the above was written by a ghost person.Ezziehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494592434522239195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13326001.post-38033922459033853732008-06-26T19:00:00.000-04:002008-06-26T19:00:00.000-04:00What's TIDE?Last I heard, it was laundry detergent...<I>What's TIDE?</I><BR/><BR/>Last I heard, it was laundry detergent or bleach or something.Ezziehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494592434522239195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13326001.post-83993954153885547762008-06-26T12:53:00.000-04:002008-06-26T12:53:00.000-04:00I sent this as a link to someone we are quite frie...I sent this as a link to someone we are quite friendly with who is an old time Breuer's Yeki. His answer just came back to me. "If Rav Lanter thinks that the Torah Im Derech Eretz philosophy is not viable for him, then let him resign. Such an attitude, displayed in public, shows a leader who has already given in rather than fighting the good fight."ProfKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17954446826821665314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13326001.post-67089113985129941932008-06-26T12:38:00.000-04:002008-06-26T12:38:00.000-04:00Unfortunately, this doesn't surprise me in the sli...Unfortunately, this doesn't surprise me in the slightest. True followers of the Torah Im Derech Eretz philosophy are a dying breed; the children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren of "the kehilla" (as it's called in the neighborhood) are living in Monsey, Brooklyn, Passaic, Lakewood. They are yeshivish, some perhaps with a few Yekkish minhagim (though some, I'm sure, have long since abandoned the traditional 3 hours between meat and milk that Germans have long held in order to be just as strict as their neighbors). YRSRH is pretty much a regular yeshivish boys' school these days; the girls' high school had to close for lack of students.<BR/><BR/>I don't think that it's true that it's impossible to live a life of Torah Im Derech Eretz without Rav Hirsch, but I do think that the sad truth is that the KAJ community has assimilated into regular yeshivish/Litvish culture to the point that they cannot truly carry the banner anymore. Their children are not followers of Rav Hirsch and his philosophy; they are, as Rabbi Mantel so clearly demonstrated, followers of "the gedolim".<BR/><BR/>I think that's rather sad.Scrapshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15911315552965685448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13326001.post-20378368324771734332008-06-26T12:37:00.000-04:002008-06-26T12:37:00.000-04:00What's TIDE?What's TIDE?the applehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04756184353010645018noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13326001.post-40800778728555796072008-06-26T11:48:00.000-04:002008-06-26T11:48:00.000-04:00Ooooh boy. Oy.Ooooh boy. Oy.Ezziehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494592434522239195noreply@blogger.com