HaRav Hakodosh R' Yeshaya Steiner of Kerestier
In honor of his yahrtzeit, 3 Iyar (5585)

Whenever he signed his name, Rabbi Yeshaya would add: Servant of the holy Rov of Liska, zt"l.

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Opinion and Comment Letter by Letter: The Story of the Romm Publishing House and the Vilna Shas by Yated Ne'eman Staff A Jewel in the Crown of a Renowned Torah Center Vilna won a reputation that outshone those of far larger and better-known communities, giving it the name, "the Yerushalayim of Lithuania." The community was renowned for its distinguished rabbonim, its numerous talmidei chachomim and its learned residents. The mere fact that the Gaon lived there would alone have sufficed to elevate the entire town and bring it renown.

Opinion and Comment The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising -- Secular Symbol of Jewish Success The uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto against the Nazis which began on April 29, 1943 and lasted about a month, just over sixty years ago, is used by secular Jews as a sign and a symbol of what they want to remember: an act of physical heroism and resistance against an overwhelmingly stronger force that managed to hold out and inflict losses on the Nazi forces. They consider that their stubborn resistance, even though it certainly had no material effect on the outcome or course of the war, constituted a moral victory for human dignity and the "honor" of the Jewish people. In fact, the episode was replete with divisiveness and intolerance, and does display the true nature of secular movements when the full facts are known. All this does not take away the basic fact that all died there al kiddush Hashem because they were Jews, but it does affect the lasting lesson for us.