Yehudah Wengrofsky

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Oct 26, 2023, 6:36 AM

Your pogrom will not be televised.

Your pogrom will not be televised. It will not make the news. The video will not be on youtube or tiktok. It will not attract a cascade of crying emojis on social media. There will be no physical marker...

Jun 5, 2023, 4:15 PM

The last days of Tzvi M. Lewis (1980-2021)

Photo courtesy of Hana Halper.

Even after my training in suicide prevention, I failed to see that the 'New York Romantic' was clearly at risk*

Apr 3, 2023, 8:23 AM

In search of lost time in Israel

Like you, I am very, very old, facing forward while bending backward through the crooked channels of time, disappearing into the sea of Am Yisroel, and yet this is the first time I am visiting Israel in my current...

May 5, 2022, 8:15 AM

Musician Larry Kessler: Oct. 3, 1941-Mar. 24, 2022

Twilight of The Godz: Larry Kessler Died While Parked Auto crashes are the leading cause of death among healthy Americans and the second leading cause of serious injury next to simply falling down. When one envisions a car crash, it...

Jan 14, 2022, 9:31 AM

Ronald Eissens (1963-2021): A Righteous Gentile

The twelfth of Sh’vat, which falls on January 14, 2022 this year, marks the first yahrzeit of Ronald Eissens, a person with enormous energy, compassion for humanity, and love for the Jewish people. He died a day short of...

Apr 1, 2021, 12:18 AM

Ross ‘The Boss’ tells American Jews to get tough

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Before the covid crisis, there was a vast increase in hate-crimes against American Jews, which, if set against a broader landscape of growing demonization in American politics and outright persecution in academia, makes me wonder what its Jewish community...

Sep 14, 2019, 3:07 AM

Teaching the Deaf to Read Hebrew

A popular course designed to teach Hebrew reading to help Jews actively participate in synagogue has also been shown effective in reaching an often overlooked and underserved segment of the Jewish community: the deaf. In March 2019, Rabbi Mendel Begun,...

Mar 24, 2019, 3:05 PM

A taste of Purim present

Moishe’s Bakery on Second Avenue, the last distinctly Jewish storefront on what had once been the Yiddish Broadway, has closed. Its owner has leased the entire building for the next 20 years and, while it is unclear exactly what...

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About Me

Impervious to reasonable suggestion, Yehudah Wengrofsky continues to scribble, noshe, and daven in the historic Lower East Side of New York City. Wengrofsky's edited volume of the writings of the late Professor Irving (Yitzchok) Block on the mysticism of Aristotle and Maimonides is forthcoming from the University of Toronto Press.