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mer Baltimore residents who have made under Rosh Yeshiva, Harav Aharon ilarly, may cost thousands of lives in
aliyah! Her recent article, entitled Kotler, zt”l. Harav Kotler was so Syria (and elsewhere), where innocent
“Journey to Bayit Vegan,” contains a hid- impressed with young Leib that he said civilians are caught in the cross-hairs of
den reference to the aliyah of another he would accept any such TA graduate the battle between ISIS, the Syrian gov-
former Baltimore resident. The building in his yeshiva. Rabbi Heiman married ernment, and the Syrian rebels. Food,
pictured in the article is the GR”A shul of Chaya Adams of Lakewood. They later shelter, and medical care are scarce. I’m
Bayit Vegan, whose first morah de’asrah moved to Boston, where he opened a sure that many opposed to Jewish immi-
was Harav Yechezkel Abramsky, zt”l. yeshiva, before making aliyah. gration during World War II used similar
Upon his passing in 1976, Rabbi Aryeh concerns about enemy spies or danger-
Leib Heiman, zt”l, was chosen as Rav Rav Leib was known for his tremen- ous subversives, communists, and
and led the GR”A shul for the next 35 dous knowledge of Torah, his unflinch- “undesirables,” etc. entering the country
years. Rabbi Heiman, who grew up in ing pursuit of truth, and his tremendous with Jewish refugees to stem the tide of
Baltimore, attended the Talmudical love for every Jew. He and his Rebbetzin refugees. While I agree that refugees
Academy. Leib, a diligent student, was did not have biological children but should be vetted, and no one wants ter-
such an excellent baseball player that raised five adopted children like their rorists entering the country, the reality is
talent scouts from the Baltimore Orioles very own. Rav Leib, zt”l, authored three that there is zero evidence that this ban
came to watch him play and immediate- volumes of his sefer, Chikrei Lev on will have any effect at reducing this
ly offered him a spot on the team. When Chumash, before his passing at the age problem or that any terrorists have
they informed him that he’d have to play of 80 in 2011. entered via this route or from these
on Shabbos, he told them he wasn’t “banned” countries. I can only imagine
interested. SHMUEL TARSHISH that if Jews were being held back for 120
days, the Orthodox community would
Leib graduated from TA with the first TO THE EDITOR, be in an uproar. If you really believe in
high school class, in 1947, along with I was very disappointed to read Sara Never Again, you have to believe in it for
current Baltimore residents, Rosh everyone, because if you don’t, it will
Yeshiva Harav Aharon Feldman, shlit”a, Adler’s letter defending Trump’s happen again. It is a sad day when mil-
and Mr. Harry Rashbaum. He spent the refugee/immigration ban and dismiss- lions of Americans have overcome xeno-
next 11 years learning at Yeshiva Beth ing analogies to the Holocaust. One phobia and have protested this unjust
Medrash Govoha in Lakewood, NJ, hundred twenty days of paused immi-
gration would surely have cost thou-
sands of lives in Nazi Germany and, sim-
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aliyah! Her recent article, entitled Kotler, zt”l. Harav Kotler was so Syria (and elsewhere), where innocent
“Journey to Bayit Vegan,” contains a hid- impressed with young Leib that he said civilians are caught in the cross-hairs of
den reference to the aliyah of another he would accept any such TA graduate the battle between ISIS, the Syrian gov-
former Baltimore resident. The building in his yeshiva. Rabbi Heiman married ernment, and the Syrian rebels. Food,
pictured in the article is the GR”A shul of Chaya Adams of Lakewood. They later shelter, and medical care are scarce. I’m
Bayit Vegan, whose first morah de’asrah moved to Boston, where he opened a sure that many opposed to Jewish immi-
was Harav Yechezkel Abramsky, zt”l. yeshiva, before making aliyah. gration during World War II used similar
Upon his passing in 1976, Rabbi Aryeh concerns about enemy spies or danger-
Leib Heiman, zt”l, was chosen as Rav Rav Leib was known for his tremen- ous subversives, communists, and
and led the GR”A shul for the next 35 dous knowledge of Torah, his unflinch- “undesirables,” etc. entering the country
years. Rabbi Heiman, who grew up in ing pursuit of truth, and his tremendous with Jewish refugees to stem the tide of
Baltimore, attended the Talmudical love for every Jew. He and his Rebbetzin refugees. While I agree that refugees
Academy. Leib, a diligent student, was did not have biological children but should be vetted, and no one wants ter-
such an excellent baseball player that raised five adopted children like their rorists entering the country, the reality is
talent scouts from the Baltimore Orioles very own. Rav Leib, zt”l, authored three that there is zero evidence that this ban
came to watch him play and immediate- volumes of his sefer, Chikrei Lev on will have any effect at reducing this
ly offered him a spot on the team. When Chumash, before his passing at the age problem or that any terrorists have
they informed him that he’d have to play of 80 in 2011. entered via this route or from these
on Shabbos, he told them he wasn’t “banned” countries. I can only imagine
interested. SHMUEL TARSHISH that if Jews were being held back for 120
days, the Orthodox community would
Leib graduated from TA with the first TO THE EDITOR, be in an uproar. If you really believe in
high school class, in 1947, along with I was very disappointed to read Sara Never Again, you have to believe in it for
current Baltimore residents, Rosh everyone, because if you don’t, it will
Yeshiva Harav Aharon Feldman, shlit”a, Adler’s letter defending Trump’s happen again. It is a sad day when mil-
and Mr. Harry Rashbaum. He spent the refugee/immigration ban and dismiss- lions of Americans have overcome xeno-
next 11 years learning at Yeshiva Beth ing analogies to the Holocaust. One phobia and have protested this unjust
Medrash Govoha in Lakewood, NJ, hundred twenty days of paused immi-
gration would surely have cost thou-
sands of lives in Nazi Germany and, sim-
28 u www.wherewhatwhen.com u
