IF I WERE I

THE KOTZKER REBBE SAID ABOUT LIFE:
"IF I WERE I AND YOU WERE YOU,
THEN I WOULD BE I AND YOU WOULD BE YOU.
BUT IF I AM I  BECAUSE YOU ARE YOU ,
AND YOU ARE YOU BECAUSE I AM I,
THEN I AM NOT I.
AND YOU ARE NOT YOU."

IF YOU COME TO THINK OF IT GUR
WHO ARE SUPPOSED TO BE TO-DAY
THE HERITAGE OF KOTZK,
NOT ONLY GER HAS DRIFTED FAR AWAY
FROM THE ORIGINAL CHASSIDUS.
BUT OTHER CHASSIDIC DYNASTIES
HAVE DRIFTED AWAY FROM THE 
ORIGINAL CHASIDUS.
THE ONLY THING THEY HAVE LEFT,
IS THE WAY THEY DRESS.

THE SAME AS WE ARE SO IMPRESSED BY THE GOYISHE
WORLD, LIKE JOE LOBESTIEN BEING MAYOR.
ITA SIMONS AND OTHERS GETING O.B.E. OR M.B.E.
OR THE  LATE CHIEF RABBI BEING MADE A LORD AND HIS WIFE
A LADY, MY THEY REST IN PEACE.
THEY WANT GOYISHE RECOGNATION,
WHEN I CAN GET RECOGNITION FROM THE GOISHE WORLD ON
MY BRAINS AND DEEP UNDERSTANDING.

THAT THE B.B.C. FINDS IT WORTH WHILE TO
MAKE A PROGRAM ON THE WAY I THINK.
JOE AND ALEX WILL NOT GIVE  ME OR ANY OTHER
" FRUM FROM BIRTH " JEW A PLACE AS DIRECTOR
OF THE AGUDA OR EDITOR OF THE JEWISH TRIBUNE,
THEY ONLY LOOK FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BA-ALE  TESUVA.

THE JEWISH TRIBUNE

A FEW YEARS BACK BEFORE THE NEWSHEET AND UPDATE,
I HEARD THAT THE LONDON JEWISH TRIBUNE WAS IN TROUBLE.
SO I WENT TO ITCHY MEIR CYMERMAN, I GAVE HIM AN IDEA,
" MAKE THE TRIBUNE FREE AND DISTRIBUTE IT TO ALL HOUSEHOLDS IN STAMFORD HILL, GOLDERS GREEN,  MANCHESTER, AND GATESHEAD.
GIVE HALF A PAGE FOR THE NEXT SIX MONTHS WEDDING CARDS FREE, (THAT IS TWO INVITATIONS ON ONE PAGE)"
LOOK WHERE THE NEWSHEET AND UPDATE ARE TO-DAY.

JOE LOBESTIEN HAS DONE A  HEART WARMING THING, GIVING A FEW LINES OF CREDIT,
TO FACES FROM THE PAST, EDITOR ELI SILBERMAN.
ONLY BECAUSE A FEW WEEKS AGO, HE MADE A" FACES FROM THE PAST" ON JOE'S  FATHER.
BUT THAT IS BETTER THEN THE BALAY TESUVA ( B.T. ) EDITOR AND DIRECTOR OF THE TRIBUNE AND AGUDA.
WHOM I HAD TO BEG SIX MONTH AGO, TO PUT ELI'S NAME ON THE PAGE OF "FACES FROM THE PAST."

MARTIN .D. STERN FROM SALFORD MANCHESTER WRITES;
A VERY SENSIBLE LETTER, ABOUT SEGREGATION ON THE BUSES IN ISRAEL.
( WE SHOULD SERIOUSLY THINK OF HIM TAKING OVER  HERE AND THERE )
ABOUT TWO YEARS AGO I WAS IN ISRAEL WITH MY WIFE, WE GOT ON  THE 402  BUS IN JERUSALEM
I SET DOWN NEXT TO MY WIFE, IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BUS, THE END OF THE MEN'S PART.
OTHER CHASIDIM GETTING ON THE BUS DID NOT CARE, IT WAS CHOLEY MOED AND I HAD MY SPODIK ON.

A GERER CHOSSID GOT ON THE BUS AND OBJECTED, ME SITTING NEXT TO MY DEAR WIFE.
I DO NOT ARGUE QUIETLY,
I TOLD HIM THAT I HAD A HETTER FROM A ROV
HE ASKED ME WHICH ROV?
I SAID THE ROV THAT GAVE US CHOPA  KIDUSHIN,
TO WHICH ALL THE PEOPLE ON THE BUS CLAPPED THEIR HANDS.

THE PROBLEM IS THAT GERER CHASSIDIM MAKE THEIR  YIDDISHKEIT IN SEGREGATING THE MEN AND WOMEN.
THE REST OF FAMILY  TZNIUS DOES NOT MATTER TO THEM.
THE LEV SIMCHA TOLD ME PERSONALLY BEFORE MY CHASUNA, (I WAS VERY NEAR TO HIM)
THE WOMEN ARE THE FOUNDATION OF EVERY  JEWISH HOUSE AND IN A JEWISH WOMAN LIES HOW THE JEWISH CHILDREN  WILL LOOK.
THE CHILDREN HAVE TO SEE THE LOVE OF G=D AND THE LOVE OF YOUR JEWISH PARTNER THESE GO TOGETHER.

MICHOEL POSEN AND JOE LOBENSTIEN

A FEW YEARS A GO I  A HAD WEEKLY RADIO PROGRAM .
LOTS OF PEOPLE LISTENED TO IT AND WANTED IT BACK AS IT CARED ABOUT PEOPLE.

ONCE I MENTIONED THAT IT IS INTERESTING THAT POLISH AND OTHER ETHNIC MINORITIES  HAVE NINE OR TEN ADVISERS GIVING YOU FREE ADVICE AND HELPING YOU FILL IN FORMS.
THE PEOPLE PHONING  IN SAID THAT THE AGUDAS ADVICE BUREAU
ONLY HAD ONE PERSON GIVING ADVICE AND TWO GIRLS TO HELP
AND YOU WERE ALWAYS TOLD TO SEE MR POSEN PRIVATELY WHICH WAS VERY EXPENSIVE.

AS MY STATION WAS MONITORED BY HACKNEY COUNCIL THANKS TO JOE LOBENSTEIN THE THEN MAYOR
I WAS CALLED TO HACKNEY COUNCIL.
THEY TOLD ME THAT HACKNEY COUNCIL PAYS THE AGUDA FOR NINE PEOPLE THE SAME AS THE OTHERS
AND ADVICE AND FILLING FORMS SHOULD BE COMPLETELY FREE.

I ASKED THEM WHY THE COUNCIL DOES NOT TAKE THE AGUDA UP ON THIS
THE LADY SAID TO ME:" WOULD YOU OR ANY OF THE OTHERS COME AS A WITNESS?"
THE RABBIS WOULD TELL US, YOU MUST NOT GO.
AND THIS PRACTISE BY THE AGUDA  ADVICE BUREAU AND MR POSEN GOES ON TO THIS VERY DAY.

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO TRUST ME ASK  AROUND IN THE COMMUNITY.
THEY WILL NOT EVEN LET SATMAR MAKE AN ADVICE BUREAU.
JOE LOBESTIEN WAS FOUR TIMES MAYOR OF HACKNEY BUT NOT FOR THE BENEFIT OF US YIDEN.
I THINK HE DID HELP A BIT IF YOU WERE FAMILY OF FAMILY OR A MEMBER OF THE U.O.H.C.
BUT MAINLY HE HELPED HIS COMPANY JAYLOW GET CONTRACT AFTER CONTRACT.

ALEX STROM WRITES
THE TIME HAS COME TO REIN IN THESE SELF-APPOINTED SPOKESMAN.
WHERE ARE THE SPOKESMAN OF OUR COMMUNITY? ? ?

  P.S. YOU CAN PUT THIS IN AS A LETTER