Baruch Dayan Haemet Rabbi Yehuda Silver
Harry Weiss
Rabbi Yehuda (Jeffrey) Silver. Long time posters here will remember him a
a regular from years back.
He was one of the more controversial posters. Intestingly the Obit
pointed out his connections to YU both as a graduate and as nephew of a
regstrar Norman Abram. (Bashing YU was his favorite pastime here)
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Harry J. Weiss
hjw...@panix.com
is_ad...@walla.com
Is it the same person? I think our Yehuda Silver was far younger, not
the rav of a shul, and not married.
Harry Weiss
How many Yehuda/jeffrey Silvers are Musmachim of RYBS? He was 61 years
old, which is not that old. It does not say anything about being leaving
a wife or children. I don't know much about the shul Cong Bet Midrash
Hagadol in Washington Heights.
Giorgies E Kepipesiom
I am not that long a time posting and hve no memory of this Silver
rabbi. But I do well remember his alleged uncle, Norman B. Abrams. We
were living in Rhodesia at the time, and Papa decided that I needed a
formal yeshiva education to supplement the informal teachings I
received at home. I was thus sent to New York whre I attended the
Issack Elkanan school. I arrived in the fall of 1948 and did not take
to this environment at all. Not to the city, not to the school, not to
the teachers, and not the the rebbies. Were it not for Mr Abrams
befriending me, I would have secured passage on the next ship. It was
Abrams who persuaded me to remain until the summer of 1949, when I
returned to my family, which had by then moved to South Africa. It was
he too who wrote to me and persuaded me to return to YU for the
1950-1951 year. These two years were the whole extent of my formal
yeshiva schooling. In 1952, Mama's sister, Aunt Pauline, had married
Uncle Leon, a first rate American talmid hakham, with whom I studied
Torah privately afterwards. But I kept up my acquaintance with Norman
B. Abrams for years. He would call me affectionatly 'Mr Gershon, kein
yirbu', and I in turn whould address him as 'Mr Abrams, alecha
hashalom'. He was famous for his warning to students: 'you will have to
bring yoour mother, your father, or one of your parents'.
Giorgies
reminiscing
The Creedmoor Chronicler
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Could be a cousin. I did not buy the Jewish Press this week - I must have
read it quickly and remembered details that were not there. But still I had
the feeling that our Yehuda Silver was far younger than 61.
Harry Weiss
Perhaps Micha will chime in. He stayed in YU for many years, including
the period when Micha was there.
Lisa
Also, ours was named SIlver; not Silver. A small difference, but
perhaps a significant one.
Baruch Dayan HaEmet, either way.
Lisa
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>
> is_ad...@walla.com wrote:
>> Harry Weiss wrote:
>> > I was reading the Jewish Press over Shabbos and notice an obituary for
>> > Rabbi Yehuda (Jeffrey) Silver. Long time posters here will remember
>> > him a
>> > a regular from years back.
>> >
>> > He was one of the more controversial posters. Intestingly the Obit
>> > pointed out his connections to YU both as a graduate and as nephew of a
>> > regstrar Norman Abram. (Bashing YU was his favorite pastime here)
>> >
>> > --
>> > Harry J. Weiss
>> > hjw...@panix.com
>>
>> Is it the same person? I think our Yehuda Silver was far younger, not
>> the rav of a shul, and not married.
>
> Also, ours was named SIlver; not Silver.
LOL - reminds me of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N - and in any case you can never
count on the Jewish Mess to get someone's name right, be it in the news,
births, engagements or after 120 section.
fla...@verizon.net
Whether he's more closely ours or not, it's a loss.
Baruch Dayan Emet.
Susan
csr...@gmail.com
Maybe there aren't too many around here whose memories stretch back that
far. Did Rabbi Yehuda (I never knew he was a rabbi) post to scjm as well
as scj? I'm sorry to hear he has passed away and I would be interested
to see more of his obituary. His opinions were, as you say, rather
robust, but if he was slightly kooky (from my secular perspective) he
was at least _our_ kook and not the nazi/islamist/evangelist kooks who
make so much noise on the net these days.
--
Colin Rosenthal
Darkest Denmark
James Kahn
I do remember him, and you're right, he seems only to have posted to SCJ,
and according to Google, he last posted there (or anywhere in Usenet) in 1998.
And I agree with your sentiment.
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Jim
New York, NY
(Please remove "nospam." to get my e-mail address)
http://www.panix.com/~kahn
Harry Weiss
> In article <ejorvo$s0l$1...@reader2.panix.com>, hjw...@panix.com says...
> > I was reading the Jewish Press over Shabbos and notice an obituary for
> > Rabbi Yehuda (Jeffrey) Silver. Long time posters here will remember him a
> > a regular from years back.
> >
> > He was one of the more controversial posters. Intestingly the Obit
> > pointed out his connections to YU both as a graduate and as nephew of a
> > regstrar Norman Abram. (Bashing YU was his favorite pastime here)
> >
> >
Welcome back. It is years since we heard from you.
> Maybe there aren't too many around here whose memories stretch back that
> far. Did Rabbi Yehuda (I never knew he was a rabbi) post to scjm as well
> as scj? I'm sorry to hear he has passed away and I would be interested
> to see more of his obituary. His opinions were, as you say, rather
> robust, but if he was slightly kooky (from my secular perspective) he
> was at least _our_ kook and not the nazi/islamist/evangelist kooks who
> make so much noise on the net these days.
> --
> Colin Rosenthal
> Darkest Denmark
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Harry J. Weiss
hjw...@panix.com
mos...@mm.huji.ac.il
That is a hot topic right now on SCJM.
> Colin Rosenthal
> Darkest Denmark
Hey, my memory just got a jar. I haven't seen that name on a post
in _years_. Hope all is well with you.
Moshe Schorr
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