this time a jew who left mitzvos

 "At the age of 74, Joe DiMaggio was sitting with the American League President and ex-teammate Dr. Bobby Brown at Candlestick Park when the 1989 San Francisco earthquake hit.

Joe DiMaggio was next spotted seeking aid at a Red Cross shelter, holding garbage bags in his hands. "My home has been pretty badly damaged,” DiMaggio said. "And right now they won`t let me back in. They won't allow it." Richard Cramer wrote in his book, "Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life", that the garbage bags DiMaggio was holding were full of about $600,000 in cash from memorabilia signings. The "Yankee Clipper" was known for trusting people less and less as he got older, and it seemed to be another sign he was looking out for himself. Joe DiMaggio was held captive for five months by his lawyer, Morris Engelberg, while he died in the hospital. Engelberg had the legendary ball player's 1936 World Series ring pried from his finger moments after he passed away. Engelberg built a trust with DiMaggio by making him more money than all of his previous business partners. However, the deceptive lawyer was hoping to take much more without DiMaggio ever knowing. Engelberg stashed hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of DiMaggio's memorabilia, like lithographs, balls, and canceled checks, without DiMaggio's knowledge, hoping to sell them and pocket the profits.

Yes, Morris Engelberg was Jewish.

Evidence

• Grew up Orthodox: According to Chabad Lubavitch, Engelberg "grew up in an Orthodox home" in Borough Park, Brooklyn (a heavily Orthodox Jewish neighborhood)
• Grandson's circumcision: Engelberg told the Los Angeles Times that Joe DiMaggio held his grandson Harrison during the baby's ritual circumcision — an honor typically reserved for a religious, righteous man. When the rabbi asked if DiMaggio was Jewish, Engelberg replied, "No, but he is righteous"

Background

Engelberg became less observant later in life ("synagogue attendance was almost null" by retirement), but remained culturally connected to his Jewish identity. 

Don Siegel

According to Clint Eastwood, during the filming of "The Shootist" (1976), director Don Siegel got into trouble with John Wayne. He asked Wayne to shoot the villain in the back in one of the scenes in the movie. After a long pause, Wayne asked, "You mean I shoot him in the back?". Siegel said, "Yeah, just shoot him, because he has four other guys with him". Wayne replied, "I don't shoot anyone in the back". Siegel then told Wayne that Eastwood would have shot him in the back. Wayne's face turned purple with fury and he said, "I don't care what that kid would have done, I don't shoot him in the back".  An aggrieved Eastwood felt that it was a terrible error on the part of Siegel to say that he would kill a man with no warning.   

Petronella Wyatt

Siegel was born in 1912 to a Jewish family[4] in Chicago; his father was Samuel Siegel, a mandolin player.[5] Siegel attended schools in New York, then moved to England to study at Jesus College, Cambridge and Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.[1] For a short time, he studied at Beaux Arts in Paris, but left at age 20 and later went to Los Angeles.[6]

yeshivitis in a nutshell

 

Midwest Agudath Israel Convention Begins

By Devorah Klein

Friday, January 6, 2017 at 2:03 am | ח' טבת תשע"ז

“MiK’amcha Yisrael : Reaching Heights, Rising Higher” is the theme of the Midwest Agudah Convention 2017, which began Thursday evening at the Renaissance Schaumberg Hotel in Schaumberg, Illinois.

At the Opening Plenary Keynote Session, the atmosphere was charged with excitement and anticipation, as hundreds of delegates from across the country gathered to hear divrei chizuk from Gedolim. And they were not disappointed. Harav Aharon Feldman, shlita, asserted that we must define Klal Yisrael’s success as success in limud haTorah, not success in our increased standards of gashmiyus.

Harav Yisroel Reisman, shlita, insisted that the future of Klal Yisrael is in Eretz Yisrael, as we are currently witnessing the shift of the center of limud haTorah and psak halachah to Eretz Yisrael, a phenomenon that has not existed since the times of Rav and Shmuel, 2,000 years ago. Therefore, it is incumbent upon us to support the mosdos and citizens of Eretz Yisrael financially and emotionally, and give proper respect to those who come collecting from Eretz Yisrael.

Harav Avraham Schorr asserted that we must recognize our illustrious past, understand how previous generations lived with temimus, emunah, and submission to talmidei chachamim, and strive to follow in their footsteps.

Thursday night’s session certainly presented a taste of things to come throughout the weekend, when over 1,300 delegates, including hundreds of children, will continue to soak up the words of Gedolim and askanim, network with each other, and discuss initiatives to help Klal Yisrael continue to riser higher and higher.

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That's the Agudah: piplul, submission, and zionism

How is an American baal habayis who is sitting in the audience who sponsored this event and all the airfare of the visiting speakers going to feel after hearing this? He isn't studying all day long. He doesn't live in Israel. And he's part of a disgusting materialistic generation not like that of his ancestors. This is what litvaks called chizuk. 

How does the speaker feel? He feels superior. He does limud hatorah all day long, not like the materialistic baal habayis. He doesn't live in Israel but he's needed in America to save the pathetic baal habatim. He doesn't have to submit. People submit to him. 

Muslim Turks

 

Homer Pavlos

@HomerPavlos

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In 1822, Muslim Turks captured two Greek Christian women in Naousa and attempted to force them to convert to Islam. They smeared them with honey on the head and tied them exposed, so as to receive the stings of wasps and of passersby. The first woman, wife of captain Zafeirakis, was then built into the wall up to the neck in the church of Hagia Sophia in Thessaloniki. She was left there for days for the entertainment of the wild mob that went there cursing and hitting her head with sticks as it protruded from the wall. She did not back down for a moment, strengthened until her last breath by prayer, and she never abandoned her Christian faith. Her martyrdom lasted five days. A passing gypsy woman, to hasten her end, threw a large stone at her, and thus the blessed one delivered her heroic soul into the hands of God, Whom she did not deny. The other woman, Maria, refused to change her faith, and for this Ebub Lubut enclosed her in a sack with deadly snakes, where she was martyred. The historian Eustathios Stougiannakis writes: "The acute venom diffused into the veins of the martyr from the bites, however, killed her in sweet lethargy, praying until the last moment for her executioners and invoking the Most High and the Virgin." And Pouqueville describes in the darkest colors to the civilized world the dramatic scenes he saw with his own eyes there: "Many women naked were put up to the neck in sacks with cats, snakes, and mice…" The lifeless bodies of these holy women were eventually thrown into the sea. These events took place during the Naousa massacre. 13 April 1822 409 Greeks killed and over 400 enslaved. Homer Pavlos

-William Butler Yeats

 “Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.”

-William Butler Yeats

great lakes

 

Chicago

Rippe🎯

@MichaelRippe

I moved to Chicago two weeks ago. Here are the highlights so far.

- Clean city

- Da Bears

- Great food

- West Loop is chiller version of NYC Soho/Meatpacking 

- No scaffolding on every other building like NYC

- September weather is elite

- Midwest nice (fake or not) is happening

- Golf courses everywhere

So far its 10/10 on the relocation. Ask me anything.