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Huge Fire At Arthur’s Road Shul

My cousin Sonia Bloch in  Cape Town sent me these photos a short time ago – feeling sad!

  Video http://elirab.me/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/f8b98c67-7f68-4c30-a8e4-cdbd89e72a43.m4v

  Some history

The official signing on 28 March 1953 – Arthur’s Road, Sea Point.

On the left is my paternal grandfather, Rev. Nachum Mendel Rabinowitz and on the right my maternal grandfather, Socher Zeldin.

Fram…

The Stropkover Rebbe and Me

The Stropkover Rebbe has just completed a visit to Perth Australia from Jerusalem.

We were honoured to have him spend Shabbat with us at the CHABAD shul in Noranda WA.

He has visited Perth before.

I took the opportunity on Saturday night to learn more about him and his town.

The Rebbe was born in Germany and lives in Jerusalem. The Stropkover Rebbe’s “once upon a time” community was based in…

“Rabbi Rabinowitz is telling journalists that WOW Director Lesley Sachs smuggled the Torah scroll in under her skirt. Not only is this an offensive accusation, but Ms. Sachs was indeed wearing pants today. Women of the Wall regards the Torah scroll with great respect and care. In fact it is Rabbi Rabinowitz who uses his authority to discriminate against women and desecrates the Torah by treating it as if it were a weapon in the hands of his enemy.“ -- Women of the Wall Facebook Page

6 April 1903 Pogrom scatters Kishinev Messianic Congregation #otdimjh

6 April 1903 Pogrom in Kishinev scatters remnant of Joseph Rabinowitz’s Messianic Congregation #otdimjh

The Kishinev pogrom was an anti-Jewish riot that took place in Kishinev, which was back then part of the Bessarabia province of Imperial Russia (currently Chişinău is the capital of independent Moldova).  It started on April 6 and lasted until April 7, 1903.The riot started after a Christian…

5 October 1891 “Mama gerettet” (“Mother saved) telegrams Joseph Rabinowitz #otdimjh

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Rabinowitz and Lichtenstein

Some interesting events in Budapest occurred a century ago in October of 1891 [writes Kai Kjaer-Hansen].

One of the people involved was Joseph ben David Rabinowitz, the then well-known Russian Hebrew Christian from Kishinev in Bessarabia who in 1885-86 had formed a congregation called “Israelites of the New Covenant.” The other key person was Rabbi Isaak Lichtenstein…

23 September 1837 Birth of Joseph Rabinowitz, founder of “The Israelites of the New Covenant” #otdimjh

The Messianic Jewish movement is indebted to  Joseph Rabinowitz, the “Herzl of Jewish Christianity” for his life and work, especially in forming the “Israelites of the New Covenant” in Kishinev. One of the first Messianic congregations in modern times, it continued with leaders such as Lev Yaacov Averbuch and Eric Gabe into the 20th century, despite pogroms and the Holocaust. Rabinowitz’s life…