By Shmuel Landesman – 2 Adar 5783 – February 22, 2023 Rav Abba Bronspigel, popular rosh yeshiva at RIETS and founding rosh yeshiva of Bais Medrash L’Talmud at Lander College for Men, died on Shabbos, February 18 in Lakewood, N.J.…
Lander College for Men is a fine institution of higher Jewish learning. It’s not an easy school to get into and an even harder school to graduate from based on the demanding schedule. I did it, though personally it wasn’t easy.…
In 2004 I was in Landers and had recently read the R’ Aryeh Kaplan reader, cover to cover. In one of the essays R’ Kaplan mentioned the joy of finding old Sifrei Kodesh, where the pages were made from…
While looking for shiurim from my Alma Mater, Landers, I came across this blog post. It takes me back since I graduated from there in 2005 and I remember Dovid Yudkowitz, Rabbi Bamberger, and the rest of the Chevra. The…
As an alumnus of Touro College‘s Lander College for Men in Queens, I was always fascinated when people didn’t initially believe me stating something peculiar about the Bais Medrash. That strange fact is, there’s a (terminated) wired connection INSIDE the Aron HaKodesh (Holy Closet that stores a Sefer Torah). Hard to believe, but it’s true.
Last week, on February 8th, 2010, we lost one of our leaders in the Jewish community, Dr. Bernard Lander. Many stories about him right now are vague and over-exaggerated, so I therefore want to clarify “all the facts” in…
In this past week’s Parasha, Parshas Mishpatim, we see a complete contrast from the Parasha before, Parashas Yisro. In Yisro, Yisro, Moshe’s father-in-law, went to give his son-in-law his wife and sons after Moshe redeemed the Jews from Egypt. Yisro…