Menachem Butler
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I am Program Fellow for Jewish Legal Studies at @Harvard_Law ; Associate Editor at @TabletMag ; Publisher of @ShikeyPress ; and President of @TheIJRPub
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The
@Harvard
students at tonight's Ishay Ribo concert know the central message: there is nothing to fear, at all.
Thank you,
@HarvardChabad
, for bringing together hundreds from our community to sing, dance, and pray, instilling in us a sense of Jewish pride each and every day.
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In
@Harvard
Yard this morning, a table is set for a Shabbat dinner, surrounded by Israeli flags and students singing Hatikvah, and 250 empty chairs for the Israelis being held hostage in Gaza.
We are praying for their immediate release.
Am Yisrael Chai.
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Dear
@Delta
, my father is not on Twitter, but he gave me permission to share this story about his flight from ATL to LGA today when one of your attendants offered him a Kosher meal at the Sky Club.
Thank you Delta!
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That man in the white hat was my great-grandfather Frank Butler, the first Mashgiach (kosher supervisor) at Heinz!
@KraftHeinzCo
A kashrus mashgiach inspects a vat of Heinz soup, 1951.
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Civil rights activist Andrew Goodman was murdered 56 years ago today during Mississippi Freedom Summer and is buried with his family in Queens.
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Zayde Donald B. Butler's first cousin, Lt. Bernard J. Rosenson (son of Charles & Nettie Rosenson of Monessen, PA) was in the Debden Eagles (335th Fighter Squadron), and while flying a P-51 on a skip-bombing mission to the Paris area, was shot down on August 18, 1944,
@jaketapper
.
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With deep sorrow we announce the death, after a long and blessed life, of our matriarch, Chantze Bard Butler ע״ה. Beloved wife of Donald Butler ע״ה. Adored grandmother, great-grandmother and great-great- grandmother. She loved and was loved by all who were privileged to know her.
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Back in my apartment refreshed, recuperated, and reinvigorated after the struggle with the covid. Thanks to everyone who helped these past few weeks. I could not have made it through without you.
הפעם אודה את ה' ,כי לעולם חסדו
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Happy 93rd birthday to my friend Mr. Tom Lehrer. I sang a specially-composed birthday sing for the occasion, and dropped off some birthday pastries. We then discussed the significance of his age within Jewish thought!
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Certainly the funniest costume that I saw emerge from Purim 2019.
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Last month, yedidi
@DBashIdeas
shared a story about Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski and participating in the Christmas play at his elementary school in Milwaukee.
I emailed him for the details of the story.
His response is even more incredible.
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It is with great sadness that I share the news of the passing today of Professor Joshua Blau, the great Romanian-born Israeli scholar of Arabic language and Judaeo-Arabic literature, researcher of the Cairo Genizah (and so much more). He was 101.
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A tiktok that gives us a tour to the home library of the late Maran Ovadiah Yosef.
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Please join me in reciting tehilim for my uncle Izzy Schulman in Los Angeles.
His Hebrew name is:
יצחק אלחנן בן יענטא
He’s in the hospital, on a respirator, with presumed COVID-19.
Please, let Hashem hear our prayers.
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Yesterday was the yahrzeit of Rav Joseph B. Soloveitchik zt"l.
Here is a photo of the funeral procession into the Baker Street Cemetery in West Roxbury, MA.
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Thank You Hashem, and to all His Heavenly Helpers who have brought us to this amazing and awesome day.
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The esteemed Rebbetzin Dr. Bruria Hutner David zt"l, a true heir to the Pachad Yitzchok noble legacy, beams with warmth surrounded by the sacred seforim at Biegeleisen, in this treasured 2019 photo. She was a cherished matriarch to generations of devoted talmidos, she perpetuated
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Though we’re not celebrating in Santa Monica, I was happy to wish my friend Mr. Tom Lehrer a Happy Hanukkah, and to bring him a few jelly donuts.
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ברוך דין האמת
We are saddened to inform you of the untimely passing of my Uncle Izzy Schulman,
יצחק אלחנן ב״ר אלתר אברהם חיים ז״ל
from the coronavirus in LA.
My mother is sitting shiva in NY.
*Absolutely no visitors are permitted to visit during shiva*
(DM for contact details)
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at long last, I was able to track down an *Ohr Chadash, vol. 1* on record, and was able to listen to Bilvavi Mishkan Evneh as it was first recorded!!!
gut shabbes, gut shabbes!!
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Prof. Haym Soloveitchik's new book, *Jews and the Wine Trade in Medieval Europe* is old wine in new barrels and will be of particular interest to those in need of Di-Vine intervention. His engaging and Brut scholarship will leave no reader Bordeaux.
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I am proud to unveil the official poster of Fall 2019 public events at The Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law at
@Harvard_Law
, with lectures by HaRav Asher Weiss, Prof. Ruth Calderon, Justice Daphna Barak-Erez,
@AmbDaniDayan
,
@DBashIdeas
, and others.
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With Reb Adam Kirsch as soon as he completed the study of THE ENTIRE TALMUD BAVLI at The Siyum HaShas. That’s 2,711 pages over 7.5 years. One page each day.
To read Adam’s weekly commentary to the Talmud that he published at
@TabletMag
, see here ().
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I am deeply saddened by the passing of Professor David Biale ז״ל, a dear friend with whom I regularly corresponded for over a dozen years. I had the privilege of curating his Academia profile ().
For a glimpse into his research, enjoy some of the following
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Thank you
@jorosenfeld
for sharing this beautiful photo of Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski zt”l.
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I am heartbroken upon hearing the news over shabbes of the passing of ha-Rav ha-Lord Jonathan Sacks zt”l.
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Special thanks to a beloved friend who made and sent me this artistically abstract colorful metal portrait of Rav Aryeh Kaplan zy”a to best represent his fiery soul and colorfully multifaceted persona, and which now adorns the wall of my living room.
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I want to read a book with the title: “The Blender Is Still Pareve.”
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Prof. David Weiss Halivni z"l passed away today at home in Jerusalem.
I first met him almost fifteen years ago (see photos); and more recently, together with his family, I was honored to curate an Academia page of all of his writings, available here ().
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Newly-discovered photo of Rav Yitzchok Hutner and students from Yeshivas Chaim Berlin in the science lab, in case you ever wondered what Secular Studies in Slabodka looked like.
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Chabad.
What's considered yeshivish if you're modox and modox if you're yeshivish
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Mazel Tov to my dearest friend Dr. Pinchas Roth on the publication of *In This Land: Jewish Life and Legal Culture in Late Medieval Provence* (2021) ()
If you are interested in medieval halakhah, then you will *need* to read every line of this book.
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The last time I saw Rav Dr. Moshe Dovid Tendler z"l was in 2019 in the YU beis medrash. I asked him a few questions about The Shver Reb Moshe Feinstein zt"l, gave him an update on what I've been working on, & commented that I enjoyed his chasidishe hat. May his memory be blessed.
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I was honored to deliver these brief remarks in memory of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks ז״ל at a Harvard Law School Memorial Event to
@RabbiSacks
. (Video will hopefully be posted shortly.)
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and so the Purim Season starts.
This newly-discovered Talmudic text, which just came across my desk (and sent to me by its author) is so appropriate for 2024!
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I sat with, and read in its entirety, Prof. Haym Soloveitchik's latest book, *Rupture and Reconstruction - The Transformation of Modern Orthodoxy: The Landmark Essay Revisited." Now that the shabbes has concluded, I shall sit to write my review essay over the next days and weeks.
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My father composed a song for my mother at their chuppa, which
@AbieRotenberg18
bought from my father for $1 (a version of the tune would later appear on Yeedle's album).
Thanks to
@YitzySpinner
and Johnny Schlagbaum, the song was sung at my wedding to
@LauraFruchter
this week.
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My heart is broken upon hearing of the passing of my friend/teacher/mentor, Rav Nosson Kamenetsky zt”l. We maintained an extensive email correspondence for more than fifteen years and met in person many times. It was always so wonderful to speak with him. More, hopefully, soon...
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@DBashIdeas
@davidmdraiman
Welcome
@davidmdraiman
to twitter!!
Enjoy this photo of him sitting between his rabbi and a friend on the guitar singing at a kumzitz while he was a student at Neve Zion in Israel.
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I'm proud to announce
@ShikeyPress
and the first book that we've published -- a volume of an English translation of a Rav Soloveitchik speech from 1942, in honor of today's 80th birthday of Rav Hershel Schachter, shlita.
Amazon link shortly, but enjoy the link to the PDF below.
In honor of today's 80th Birthday of Rav Hershel Schachter,
@ShikeyPress
is proud to publish an English translation of a 1942 address by Rav Joseph B. Soloveitchik about Chabad-Lubavitch. Entire book can be shared and is available to be downloaded here ().
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Elie Wiesel’s account of a visit to a Yud Tes Kislev fabrengen at The Lubavitcher Rebbe, was published in Yiddish in December 1963; and in English at the Seforim blog (), translated by Shaul Seidler-Feller, with permission of the Wiesel family.
#YachtKislev
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**Guy meets shadchan**
Shadchan: Are you interested in learning half a day or whole day?
Guy: Maybe even two days.
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Dr. Tovah Lichtenstein just told
@zev_eleff
in his online class that her father, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, would deliver boxes of matzah to every public school located in the Jewish communities around Boston prior to Passover, so that Jewish children could have snacks to eat.
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It was a tremendous zechus to join the Kaplan family today for an afternoon of learning, reflection, and research on the occasion of the 39th yahrzeit of Rav Aryeh Kaplan zy"a. We davened mincha, and feasted in the study of his thought. More soon...
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On my first
@JetBlue
flight in more than a year, flying this morning from Boston to Orlando.
Happy Passover, to all who celebrate!
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Maran Ovadiah Yosef on Ashkenazim Reciting Parashat Zakhor.
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and its the song that he composed for his brother’s wedding, and which has become one of the standard niggunim within the traditional Jewish repertoire, no matter the circle.
Rabbi Twerski requested that he should not be eulogized.
Instead he asked for a song to be sung.
“Save and bless Your very own people; tend them and sustain them forever.”
~Psalms 28:9
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@onthemainline
@EziomaKalu
@gilibugg
"To Adolf Hitler Fuehrer of the German Reich," dedication by Professor Cecil Roth in *The Sassoon Dynasty* (London: Robert Hale, 1941)
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I am thinking about Rav Aharon Lichtenstein zt"l on his sixth yahrzeit, not only of his teachings and published writings; here is a personal memory.
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I didn’t really know Reb Saadya z”l. But he greeted me with a warm smile when I visited campus; usually at Golan. His love of being a talmid of Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yitzchak Elchanan was clear to all, and YU is much greater a place thanks to him.
Thanks to
@RIETSDean
for the photo.
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For the past two days, I have been working non-stop with my dear friend Rabbi Dr. Edward Reichman to research and write a tribute in memory of Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski, zt"l, who passed away on Sunday at the age of 90.
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Wow!!
@SenSanders
was also present at The Rav’s first Talmud class at Stern College for Women on October 11, 1977?! Who knew?!
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I took these photos of Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski at his home in Teaneck, NJ, ahead of
@aaronrkatz
’ profile at
@TabletMag
in 2015 ()
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My Yanover Esrog from Italy, courtesy of Altein Esrogim, for Sukkot 5781. I can’t wait to pick it up and recite the blessing on Sunday morning!
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Machon Yerushalayim has just released a 300 page sefer (“Ne’emnu Me’od”) on historical and halakhic matters related to plagues, pandemics, etc., and it is available for download via the Otzar HaHochma forum ().
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After Thanksgiving Dinner 2008 with Rabbi Jonathan Sacks zt"l in Jerusalem, Israel.
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A photo with Rav Adin Steinsaltz in 2014.
Me: "Rav Steinsaltz, perhaps a picture??"
Rav Steinsaltz: "Why?"
Me: "Why not?"
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Wow. Rav Mayer Twersky, shlita, "Chilul Hashem in the Streets: Response to the Protests."
()
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One shouldn't cry or be filled with sadness on shabbes, yet I was unable to avoid those emotions when reading the entire book by Rav Eitam Henkin HY"D, just published by
@korenpublishers
() and I mourn, once again, the indescribable losses to scholarship.
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video of Rabbi Prof. Daniel Sperber reciting shehecheyanu upon receiving covid vaccine
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Going through some old files tonight, I found this photograph of a Tefillin Box Painting by Rav Aryeh Kaplan zt"l... and so much more. (reposting)
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Another painting by Rav Aryeh Kaplan zt"l.
Not really sure what it means, but likely something to do with Parashat Bereishit, which will be chanted this week.
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This, the truest teaching from our teacher Rav Moshe Weinberger: "these chevre that are struggling, they're the ones who are looking hardest for the ribbono shel olam." This video is just a brief selection from the entire shiur here ().
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Best wishes for a freilichim Mrs. Cooperman Shabbat, to one and all.
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Video of Rav Hershel Schachter and Rav Mordechai Willig receiving the covid vaccine ().
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@Yair_Rosenberg
I actually just recently found this article about when
@Entenmanns
first received their
@OUKosher
certification in 1981,
@Yair_Rosenberg
; and as example of how
@CongregationKJ
mentioned the
@YeahThatsKosher
news in synagogue bulletin, see here () on Page 9.
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I'm saddened to hear the news of the passing of Professor Robert Chazan, the renowned scholar of medieval Jewish history.
To read more than a half-century of his writings, see his Academia page here ()
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The 1935 photograph of Rav Kook and Rav Uziel is circulating in the anash whatsapp groups!
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Today is the yahrzeit of The Yabloner Rebbe — Yechezkel Taub / George Nagel — and to learn his story, read
@PiniDunner
’s
@TabletMag
article from 2018 ()
13 Iyar: R'Yechezkel Taub, the Yabloner Rebbe (1895-1986). One of the founders of the Kfar Chassidim community near Haifa.
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Zayde Donald B. Butler z"l in uniform during his WW2 army service, stationed in North Africa and Italy,
@jaketapper
and
@RabbiWolpe
.
#MemorialDay
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Baruch Dayan HaEmet
Professor Avraham Grossman has passed away and the funeral is tonight in Jerusalem.
To read his scholarly writings, see here ()
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My
@tabletmag
tribute “In Memory of Shmuel Ashkenazi, Bibliographer of the Hebrew Book” ().
May his memory be blessed.
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Today was also the anniversary of that day when the Rebbe Reb Zusia was finally asked by the Kadosh Baruch Hu:
“Zusha, why weren't you more like Zusha?"
may his neshomo have an aliyah. lchaim lchaim!
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I just found these photos from Summer 2000 in Efrat — with Rav Shay Schachter, Rav Hershel Schachter, and Rav Mayer Twersky.
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@123ezstreet
@yitzlandes
among other newly-digitized-photographs from the negatives, are these four photos of Rav Kook.
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For all who’ve wanted to read Rav Hershel Schachter’s recent dozen+ pesakim on coronavirus, they are now available online here ().
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I love that the shtender used by Reb Moshe Feinstein zt"l in this photo was a desk likely used by an elementary school student the next day.
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Professor
@NoahRFeldman
leyning the megillah on campus in celebration of Purim on behalf of JLSA and Harvard Chabad at Harvard Law School, flanked by two Harvard graduate students.
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As we observed The Eighth of Tevet on Sunday, here is Rav Yitzchok Hutner on what would have been the real miracle of the Septuagint translation.
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In conversation yesterday with Justice Elana Kagan at
@Harvard_Law
.
We discussed my research into the history of Bat Mitzvah in American Jewish life, and her central role in the story. For the full study that I authored with
@zev_eleff
, see here ().
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Tonight is the yahrzeit of The Yabloner Rebbe — Yechezkel Taub / George Nagel — and to learn his story, read
@PiniDunner
’s
@TabletMag
article from 2018 ().
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I am excited to announce that I will be co-authoring an essay with Professor Marc B. Shapiro at the Seforim blog, as a followup to his article from this evening: “R. Ahron Soloveichik: ‘In Defense of My Brother’, available here ().
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A long long time ago, The Beis Yosef asked — how come Hanukkah is celebrated for Eight Days, if miracle was only the final seven days?! In 1962, a sefer with 100 answers appeared; in 2007, a sefer with 500 answers; and now, in 2019, a sefer with 1,000 answers. Am Yisrael Chai!!
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Thank you Rav Lebowitz (
@bknwrabbi
) for the shout-out today in your daf yomi shiur this morning to Yoma 15 (); and here are some of the photos from our Summer 2009 outing to
@Sothebys
with Rav Schachter for the guided tour of The Valmadonna Collection.
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I was just sent this photo of a tombstone in Uman. Let’s find out more about this family :)
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Today is the 28th yahrzeit of George Costanza's late fiancée Susan Biddle Ross, who expired ().
lchaim,
@IJasonAlexander
, lchaim
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