Venue: YU Israel YU Israel

History:

20th Century CE 

Collections: R' Rakeffet Jewish History Fall 2021

Description

Sports on Shabbat. Talmidim who actually understood Rav Aharon Kotler's class. Baseball. Robert Blau and the Rav in Hakirah 30. ArtScroll and Dr. Revel. Kastner rescue train as Noah's Ark. Great controversy about whom Kastner saved. Rav Moshe Feinstein on deciding who should get the medicine when there is not enough. Kastner train: The events. Similar problem with the rescue of Belzer Rebbe. The trial and subsequent appeal of Malchiel Gruenwald. Kurt Becher. Moscow Metro. Rabbi David Moshe Rosen of Romania. The halakhic issue of surrendering Jews to gentiles. Yehudah Kil: His life and his commentary on surrendering Shimon to Yosef, published in Daat Mikra Bereishit 42:19. The Kovno Rav's decision. Saving the Essas family.