Great American Jewish Cities #12: The Lower East Side Part II

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A date which will live in infamy. Both of those projects, initiatives, got off the ground because of the girl rebel. 11 team members slain in West Germany. Out of the 24 who were killed were Americans who had come to learn in Americans who had come to learn in heaven. I saved 1 million Jewish children who were made to be cut in little cells. Whoever heard such beautiful words? It is never too little. is never too late. And it is never enough. never enough. Jewish history sound bites, bringing alive the world of our glorious past. Here is our host, live from Jerusalem, Jewish historian and tour guide, Yehuda Geberer. Welcome everyone to Jewish history sound bites. This is Yehuda Geberer with another episode of Jewish history sound bites, and this is going to be part two in the great American Jewish uh cities Lower East Side. uh cities Lower East Side. Um we started part one. And now we're going to do part two of the Lower East Side. So, talk a little bit about again some more institutions and personalities and life and overall. Um I mentioned in passing in part one of MTJ, Mesivta Tifereth Yerushalayim. So, it's originally founded as an elementary school in 1907. And later on, in the 1920s, the high school is added, and then a post high school is added, and then a smicha uh um

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1. 0:05A date which will live in infamy. Both of those projects, initiatives, got off the ground…
2. 3:09Side, I just want one or two things. Um Reb Moshe uh described the memory that…
3. 6:43that's uh worth talking about. But the Ezras Torah, which supported Torah scholars in Europe and…
4. 10:20immigrant Jewish immigrants coming through Ellis Island. So, in 1911, he gets a he convinces his…
5. 13:24And and uh and and throughout all his years in in Hollywood and everything, he emphasized…
6. 16:59Ring, which was very secularist and anti-religious, but it was founded as essentially a form of…
7. 20:37immigrants, these same Jewish socialists who now arrive in the Lower East Side, they are confronted…
8. 23:41and he's involved in in 15 15 years later in founding 1897 founding the Forward, which…
9. 27:13hires after the war he or during the war he hires Aaron Ben Zion Shurin, a…
10. 30:49happens after the war. But in in the already in the 1920s and 30s, the second…

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