Thursday, November 24, 2011

The Haredi World this Week


One of the news: The Belzer Rebbe Issachar Dov Rokeach didn't travel to Tiberias for the Yahrzeit of his father, Rabbi Mordechai of Bilgoraj. Instead he commemorated the Yahrzeit in Telshe Stone / outside Jerusalem. Rumours say that the Rebbe is sick and is going to have surgery on his feet.

2 comments:

  1. Is the Bilgoray Rabbi related to the mother of the late writers Israel Joshua Singer and Isaac Bashevis Singer z"l ?

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  2. B"H

    A great question !

    So far, I have found out that both came from the same town BILGORAJ:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi%C5%82goraj

    I doubt that they were related but I don't deny that it could be. On the other hand, Singer would have mentioned if he had been related to Rabbi Mordechai.

    As far as I know: Singer's son lives in Israel and when his father was still alive, the two weren't best friends.

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