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Jacob Stein - My story I am an Orthodox Jew and a computer programmer and I live in Wesley Hills, New York. I was raised as a non-practicing Lutheran by my adopted parents and I converted to Judaism at age 16. This blog as a rule follows the teachings of the Lithuanian rabbinical seminaries of the 1920s and 1930s.
The Jewish American story: Morton A.Reichek aka Moishareleh Octogenarian [Morton A. Reichek]: The man who attended my father's "bris " Reichek - Gerrer Chasidim Beth Hasidim de Palen - 16 Montgomery
Litvak Rabbis Family Tree
New Google Blogger feature. Slideshow of pictures being uploaded to Blogger Blogger Play
Hard at Work
Microsoft Insider Blog
The scuffle in Bobov March 25,2005, the day after his father-in-law-Rabbi Naftali Zvi Halberstam's funeral, Rabbi Mordche Dovid Ungar went to the Bobover Beis Hamedrash to daven as if he was the rightful heir to the Bobover crown.Others thought differently and he was promptly thrown out. To see some of the activities on that fateful day, click here .
Is this picture acceptable for Mishpacha Magazine?
Jews For Hillary
Jewish Population increasing in Bethlehem, NH - Boston Globe
Webmath.com: Calculate your chance of winning the lottery
Why we live in New York
Boruch Dayan Emes - Clippy is Dead
Let them eat brioche - Ger style
Love American Style - Boro Park Version
Tznius Police
Inside a Partisan underground bunker
Chabad plans Jewish center for Monroe
Itche Goldberg editor of Yiddishe Kultur dies at 102
Grandmother surfs to YouTube stardom KATHRYN GREENAWAY The Gazette Wednesday, January 03, 2007 Hanna Tennenhaus looks at family pictures at home. She has 16 grandchildren and 32 great-grandchildren. Montreal grandmother Hanna Tennenhaus doesn't own a computer and until recently had never heard of the popular everyman video-broadcast website YouTube. Doesn't matter. In the last 48 hours, Tennenhaus has become the toast of the website thanks to a New Year's greeting she recorded for her family. It's an impressive family that includes four children, 16 grandchildren and 32 great-grandchildren (with three more on the way.) "YouTube? Does that have something to do with U-boats?" Tennenhaus, 83, asked with a laugh when reached by telephone yesterday. Tennenhaus's flash fame is a testament to the unpredictability of cyberspace, where, inexplicably, an otherwise unremarkable one-minute New Year's greeting from Grandma can surf its way to stardom. Even ABC'