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Along the Silk Road

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  | Profiles |  By  Menachem Treiber   | June 20, 2018 Silk says the move away from his New York haven and the law firm he’s partnered in for two decades, to what he calls “the self-imposed exile in Washington from Monday to Thursday,” is all in the name of public service. He sees it as hashgachah (Photos: Eli Greengart) L ast October, when Reb Moyshe (Mitchell) Silk left his influential position as a senior partner in the global law firm Allen & Overy to become Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US Department of the Treasury, he arrived for his swearing-in ceremony holding an ancient tome. Instead of the Bible typically used for such ceremonies, Silk — bearded, black-hatted, and ever-connected to his chassidic roots — brought along his treasured ancient Tikkun Korim that had belonged to Rebbe Mordechai of Nadvorna, a tzaddik and miracle worker who passed away in 1894, and was from Silk’s grandfather’s ancestral town. Using the precious sefer for the cer...
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All credit goes to Yeshiva Pirchei Shoshanim

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  Dear Chabura, Rod Bryant, our lecturer for our Noahide Program was interviewed on meaningful people, we recommend  all listen to this amazing person. He was a US ARMY CHAPLAIN, POLICEMAN, MINISTER AND left everything to follow the 7 divine commandments... Watch Podcast here   With Torah Blessings, Rabbi F.J. Todd Yeshiva Pirchei Shoshanim
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The Best Defense

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  | Profiles |: The biala rebbe of bnei brak All credit goes to Aryeh ehrlich and the mishpacha  By  Aryeh Ehrlich   | September 18, 2017 Email Print According to the Biala Rebbe of Bnei Brak, we’re a worthy generation that engages in Torah and chesed like never before. “There has never been such a wonderful and dynamic generation so wonderful. There are problems? Nu you can always find problems. But come let’s talk about the positive qualities of the generation. Believe me in comparison the problems are batel b’shishim” (Photos: Shuki Lehrer Biala archives) I t was the first thing I noticed when I entered the building of the Biala chassidus on Rechov Yerushalayim in Bnei Brak: the crates of cucumbers. You’d expect the entrance of a prominent institution to be its showcase with memorial plaques on the walls and at least one potted plant in the corner. But it seems that for Biala–Bnei Brak stacked crates of vegetables that take up half the floor space is a badge of ho...
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