Articles by Devorah Klein

From Budapest to Bergen-Belsen to Baltimore: The Saga of Harav Zvi Dov Slanger


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Each year, on the 21st of Kislev, Harav Zvi Dov Slanger, Rosh Yeshiva of Beis Hamedrash and Mesivta of Baltimore, celebrates a seudas hoda’ah (thanksgiving meal) with his yeshiva to commemorate the day in 1944 when he arrived in Switzerland, following his incarceration in Bergen-Belsen. This year, Harav Slanger will celebrate 70 years since that awesome day. In preparation for this remarkable event, Harav Slanger agreed to share his moving story, a story that demonstrates hashgacha pratis (Divine providence), obvious miracles, and, most of all, the fulfillment of the pasuk, “I will not have been revolted by them, nor will I have rejected them to obliterate them, to annul my Covenant with them.” (Artscroll Stone Chumash, Vayikra 26:44)


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The Tikvah House


Walk through the streets of downtown Baltimore, and you will find endless streets of narrow row houses. Walk down the 500 block of North Washington Street, and you may notice a beautifully renovated building. Behind the doors of 529 North Washington Street, lies a beacon of hope and an oasis in time and space- a structure dedicated to serving Jewish families of seriously ill patients at the nearby world-famous Johns Hopkins Hospital. Welcome to the Tikva House.

Binyamin Kaufman*, a resident of a New Jersey Jewish community, had just received a frightening diagnosis, and needed surgery – soon. The appropriate research


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