Rabbi moshe sherer biography sampler

Pantry Boy

It wasn’t just that they couldn’t afford camp. “My parents were survivors. They didn’t even know what camp was. My father woke up three o’clock in the morning for his job as ‘kosher-macher,’ salting meat for the butcher.”

So summers, for young Meir, meant long days on the streets of Alphabet City (as the section of the Lower East Side where the streets feature single-letter names is known), hoping to get into a punch ball game or chance upon an open fire hydrant.

It wasn’t until after his bar mitzvah that a friend suggested he apply for work at Camp Agudah, up in the Catskill Mountains.

Even the job title was quaint: pantry boy, which is what they used to call kitchen workers.

He got the job — and fell in love. I expect him to rhapsodize about the songs, the spirit, the sports….nope. Meir Frischman actually loved the work at Camp Agudah.

“I was just that type of kid, inom was capable and loved to be busy,” he says. “In yeshivah, at RJJ, I

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[In alphabetical order according to First Name] A-C, D-L, M-R, S-U, V-Z, and secondarily by Year of Passing

At the end of each entry, thanks to Chaya M Mishelovin, the numbers indikera which stories in the archives the person appears in.

 

Rabbi Yisrael-Abba (HaKohen?) Pliskin [of blessed memory: 5665 (or 5667) - 27 Sivan 5756 (1905 - June 1996] spent nearly twenty years in hiding from the NKVD (forerunner of the KGB), a consequence of his absolute dedication to helping Torah-true Jewish education survive in Communist Russia. He managed to emigrate in 1947, and after a brief period in Paris went on to be one of the founding fathers of the highly successful Chabad community it Melbourne, Australia, before eventually moving to New York and becoming a gabbai (manager) of the "770" shul and a teacher in the English-language yeshiva for young dock without strong Torah backgrounds. (For more details) Story #1019 --

Rabbi Abraham -- see Rabbi Avraham

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