Special Guest - Ruth Lichtenstein, Editor-in-Chief of Hamodia & Founder of Project Witness
Behind the Bima
Rabbi Efrem Goldberg
4.8 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2021
⏱️ 77 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From Boko Atome, Florida, this is Behind the Bima. |
| 0:04.3 | On this episode, the rabbis are joined by Ruth Lichtenstein, editor-in-chief of the English-language Hamodia, and founder of Project Witness. |
| 0:11.5 | Ruth discusses her experiences being the editor-in-chief, shares stories about her illustrious family, and talks about Project Witness. |
| 0:18.5 | Also, the rabbi shmooze about the pressures on communal rabbis to know the correct day of the Omar. Also, the Rabbi Shmooze about the pressures on communal rabbis |
| 0:21.2 | to know the correct day of the Omer. Also, the latest COVID-19 protocols at BRS. And how |
| 0:27.0 | do the rabbis enjoy their week off from behind the Bima? All this and more, behind the Bima. |
| 0:33.3 | Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, Wednesday night 9 p.m. and after taking last week off for Cholamoyote, my name is Rabbi Eff from Goldberg, your host, joined by my dear colleagues and friends, Rabbi Philip Moskut and Rabbi Josh Brody, and we're here to take you behind the beam. I want to thank our sponsor tonight, anonymously for the Rufu O'Shalerah of Rhaun Arna Cohen, Ben Rivka, Alex Kraus, a rabbi mascotus Kuzhn, Anu B. Shlameh, bin Shlomo, Dr. David Dombach, Zuchar. Thank you to our anonymous sponsor. Greatly appreciate a reminder. If you want to sponsor a future episode, there are some open slots. Contact Lee, L-E-E-E-R-S-online.org.E-E-E-R-S-Nline.org. Rabbis, how are you this evening? So that's a dombek from Elizabeth, I just want to point out. Okay. Elizabeth always comes back to Elizabeth New Jersey. Always. Rabbis, how are you on this evening? Yomashawa. |
| 1:31.6 | Yomashawa, it is Yomashua Vaghurah, the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day. |
| 1:36.2 | We rethink about the Kadocium, the martyrs, who gave their lives, as well as the survivors who have rebuilt Judaism and to whom we owe beyond the greatest debt of gratitude and inspired |
| 1:42.6 | by. |
| 1:42.9 | We had a moving program |
| 1:45.0 | earlier this evening had the privilege of interviewing judge Coleman Samuel |
| 1:49.4 | Coleman who had a really really extraordinary story of being taken from Poland to |
| 1:55.6 | Russia Siberia and during the war after the war yeah he was emotional this |
| 2:00.4 | evening it's probably not what what struck you the most from the war. Yeah, he was emotional this evening. |
| 2:02.6 | It's probably not easy to do. What struck you the most from the program from his words? |
| 2:05.8 | Well, for me, it was really, again, I'll let you address his words directly, but for me, |
| 2:10.7 | it was really also the opportunity to be able to hear Mr. Martin Judevitz, a member of our |
| 2:15.1 | community beforehand. |
| 2:17.4 | And, you know, oftentimes I'm the one who's in the room for Yisker with him when he does the Kalmali for the martyrs of the Holocaust. And it's always, I don't want to say a highlight because you don't use that in that context, but it definitely contributes enormously to the experience. And obviously, I've been missing it over the last year, and the recordings |
| 2:34.3 | are not the same. |
| 2:35.1 | So to be able to see Mr. Judevitz, Barakashem, healthy and well, and also doing the Kalmali |
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