Good news ping!
Though the rabbi should have more than one child, as an example to the community, if he wants to rebuild the shattered Polish Jewry into something worthy of the name.
Wow!
Good news for you guys! I should have added you to my previous ping. My bad.
Ugh, makes one sick to the stomach.
May God bless and strengthen Rabbi Flaks.
Good news. A new beginning on top of the old ashes.
I can't help but feel ambivalent about this. It's great that forgotten Jews are finally having their spiritual needs attended to once again, but if the Holocaust wasn't a wake-up call to get out of Europe (indeed, out of the entire Exile), then I don't know what was. The rebuilding of Jewish communities in countries that hate them seems very wrong-headed now that 'Eretz Yisra'el is available once again (at least those parts of it that aren't Judenrein to please the "indigenous pipples").
Just saw Schindler's List over the weekend. In a movie that has many chilling and haunting scenes, Amon Goethe's speech prior to the "cleansing" of the Krakow ghetto always gets to me.
"Today will be remembered. Years from now the young will ask with wonder about this day. Today is history and you are part of it. Six hundred years ago when elsewhere they were footing the blame for the Black Death, Kazimerz the Great, so called, told the Jews they could come to Krakow. They came. They trundled their belongings into the city. They settled. They took hold. They prospered in business, science, education, the arts. They came here with nothing. Nothing. And they flourished. For six centuries there has been a Jewish Krakow. Think about that. By this evening those six centuries are a rumor. They never happened. Today is history."
Thank God that he always allows a remnant to exist, to remember, and to repopulate.