Al da vadai kabachina!

Survey: Religious Jews twice as likely to fall in religiosity as members of other faiths

19:21 10/20/2009, JPost.com Jewish News

53% of Jews and 83% of Muslims responded they were satisfied with their religious leadership.

While I was at hebrewbooks.org...

I figured I would look for one of my favorite references to the ancestral birthplace, Bechhofen, and what a bunch of "cheapskates" my "forefathers" were (not direct ancestors, B"H, as we have no parnas named Chaim in our family tree!), in the Chida's Ma'agal Tov:

I had no idea I was actually in the Rivevos Efraim!...

...until I stumbled across myself tonight, courtesy of hebrewbooks.org, in Chelek 4. A teshuva written to me back in '82 (or perhaps the beginning of '83)! Here it is (the pages are in reverse order, that's my fault for uploading them that way):

Great Inyana d'Yoma Post on Chol HaMoed from RSK!

What Yekkes are doing today for fun:

Standing in front of 770, stopping Lubabvitchers and asking,

"Did you put on tefillin today?"

Moadim L'Simcha!