ROGUES, RASCALS & RAPSCALLIONS – PART 3 (PODCAST)
THE STORY OF ZEIDE MEIR SCHMELLNER
Zeide Meir Schmellner was the scion of a distinguished Hasidic dynasty, and married into a similarly elevated family. Although he was a brilliant rabbinic scholar and a charismatic speaker, his explosion into the field of international peace in 1925 took everyone by surprise. Rabbi Dunner delves into the story of this unusual Romanian rabbi, charting a career that took him from Bukovina, to Paris, to New York, and eventually a brush with the law that landed him in Sing Sing. One of the most shocking stories of any rabbi in modern history.
(For the SoundCloud audio, scroll down) At the end of the nineteenth century, the United States Post Office employed a remarkable woman whose work required detective instinct, linguistic brilliance, an... Read More