Yehuda Wengrofsky, at The Blogs

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

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

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...

About Me

Yehuda Wengrofsky scribbles, noshes, and davens in the historic Lower East Side of New York City, where his family has lived since escaping the hellfires of European fascism and communism a century ago. Wengrofsky's edited volume of the writings of the late Professor Irving Block on the mysticism of Aristotle is forthcoming the University of Toronto Press (2023).