HERE AND THERE

BEN YITZCHOK ( JOE LOBENSTIEN )
IS AGAIN OCCUPIED WITH THE UNITED SYNAGOGUE
ELECTING A CHIEF RABBI.
THE ONLY ORGANISATION NOT GROWING IN
STAMFORD HILL IS THE ADATH.

IF YO DO NOT BELIEVE ME TAKE A LOOK AT
THE TWO BOBOV, TWO SATMAR ,GUR ,AND THE TWO BELZER COMMUNITIES.
ALL THESE ORGANISATIONS HAVE ONE THING IN COMMON
THEY ARE NOT INTERESTED  IN THE UNITED SYNAGOGUE,
BOARD OF DEPUTIES ETC,ETC,
AS THE LATE RABBI PADWA TOLD YOU JOE,
"HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THEM."

AS A STRONG AGUDIST I TRY TO READ ( NOT BUY )
THE JEWISH TRIBUNE EVERY WEEK,
SPECIALLY " HERE AND THERE "
BUT PLEASE STOP WRITING ABOUT THE
UNITED SYNAGOGUE AND BOARD OF DEPUTIES.

ABA DUNNER Z.L.

IN THE JEWISH TRIBUNE 21 JULY 2011.
JOE LOBENSTIEN  WRITES IN HIS" HERE AND THERE" COLUMN:
" ABA WAS A BORN ASKAN "
( I REMEMBER IT WELL)
"AFTER HE TERMINATED HIS EMPLOYMENT WITH THE BRITISH AGUDA"
WHEN HE WAS EDITOR  OF THE JEWISH TRIBUNE AND DIRECTOR  OF BRITISH AGUDA,
YOU JOE AND A FEW OF YOUR OTHER CRONIES
WERE SCARED HE WAS GETTING TOO GOOD AT HIS JOB AS HE WAS BUILDING UP THE AGUDA.

YOU WERE SCARED THAT THIS YUNGERMAN WOULD OVER TAKE YOU, SO YOU GOT RID OF HIM AND PUSHED HIM OUT.
AND THE AGUDA HAS GONE DOWN HILL.
TO THAT EXTENT THAT THE TRIBUNE IS BANKRUPT.
IF ITA SIMONS ( CYMERMAN ) WOULD NOT HAVE TAKEN AGUDAS HOUSING OUT OF THE AGUDAS CONTROL,
SHE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL.
S.O.F .T. ONLY BECAME A SUCCESS  
WHEN OTHER CHARITY ORGANISATIONS OPENED UP.

NEPOTISM AND FRIENDS HAVE RUINED THE ORGANISATION.
ABA LIVED AND WANTED TO HELP JEWISH PEOPLE,THAT WAS HIS LIFE'S AIM.
THIS IS NOT THE CASE WITH JOE, FOUR YEARS MAYOR AND COUNTLESS YEARS COUNCILOR HE NEVER HELPED A PERSON PRIVATELY.
ALL THAT MATTERED WAS HIM ,HIM AND HIM AGAIN.

AS JOE WRITES, ABA WAS A BRILLIANT COMMUNICATOR.
HE ENJOYED PARTICIPATING IN A JEWISH RADIO PROGRAMME, UNTIL HIS BROTHER DAYAN AHRON DOVID WAS FRIGHTENED THAT IT WOULD STOP HIM TAKING OVER HIS FATHERS PLACE AS RAVED OF THE U.O.H.C. WHEN THE WELL KNOWN TZADIK
RABBI JOSEPH ZVI DUNNER  Z.L. PASSED ON.
SO HE DROPPED THE RADIO, AFTER PRESSURE FROM HIS FAMILY.

IN THE END THE FAMILY OF THE OLD RABBI PADWA Z.L.
WANTED TO KEEP THE U.O.H.C. IN THEIR FAMILY.
THEY  DISSOLVED THE POSITION OF RAVED SO DAYAN AHRON DOVID
DID NOT HAVE WHAT TO TAKE OVER.
THE WHOLE TOWN STINKS OF POWER THE RABONIM AND ASKONIM.
THE LAST WORD ,ABA'S LIFE WAS TO HELP PEOPLE AND MAKE THEM LAUGH .


WITH TEARS IN MY EYES I KNEW  HIM OVER SIXTY YEARS.