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Frum Politics: Rav Yehoshua of Belz, Rav Shimon Sofer & Machzikei Hadas

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The founding of the first Orthodox political party in Jewish history.

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[Music] both of those projects initiatives got off the ground because of the garage prolific team members slain in west germany out of the 24 who were killed were out of the 24 who were killed were americans who had come to learn i say one million jewish children who were made to become losers [Music] it is never too little it is never too late and it is never enough in honor of all the patient listeners of jewish history sound bites so you know um big shout out to all the patient listeners out there of jewish history sound bites um a little more patience before we get to today's episode because i have um just a few things to share first of all some feedback about a month or two ago he had a very very popular episode on the cypher and his family and a very old and good friend of mine who's quite knowledgeable friend of mine who's quite knowledgeable as well he related to me that he was at the cover of the cipher in bratislava 40 years ago under the you know communist government of course and he described how it was basically an iron grating in the floor and there was a an elderly woman who who came to open it and you walk down this tight and narrow staircase to the cover so i reflected about how

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  1. 0:02[Music] both of those projects initiatives got off the ground because of the garage prolific team
  2. 3:38um as far as the summer schedule of jewish history sound bites is concerned there's some
  3. 7:48the communal structures the religious structures even halachic structures parameters not not the the very act
  4. 10:53east and west and while that distinction as a whole holds true for the 19th century
  5. 14:28we can't do that with human populations but when accidents of history like this take place
  6. 17:37uh second belzoraba he succeeded his father who i mentioned before the tsar shalom in 1855
  7. 21:18hadas and two weeks a month a different completely different newspaper called coil marziki hadas was
  8. 24:24and and also through the early years through the first decade of its existence the big
  9. 28:03something else which foreshadows future events he sides in parliament with the the um the conservative
  10. 31:07in that honor they sometimes copied historical articles from the german language orthodox newspaper their israelite

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