More than four decades after his passing, talmidim, assistants, and the American hosts of “everyone’s rosh yeshivah” share their personal memories of Rav Shmuel Rozovsky
It was a frigid morning in late January of 1978.
A throng of men stood together in the arrivals hall at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York, eyes trained on the door. Suddenly, the doors swung open and a tall, dignified rabbi appeared. Instantly, the waiting crowd locked arms, began a celebratory tune, and began to dance toward him.
A weakened Rav Shmuel Rozovsky approached the joyous crowd with surprise in his eyes and waved them off, but they remained undeterred. The leader of the group, a veteran talmid, clasped Rav Shmuel’s hand warmly and whispered some words into his ear. Slowly, the great Ponevezher Rosh Yeshivah began to smile. He beckoned the group to a nearby seating area where they crowded around him in silence. No matter that he’d just concluded a grueling flight, no matter that his
This Passover Recipe Tells the Story of a Family Tree
A wide-reaching family’s interpretations of a Moroccan Jewish recipe reflects their history.
Credit.Andrew Purcell for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Carrie Purcell.
March 15, 2021
The mention of a Moroccan fish dish stirs Dafna Tapiero’s memory of a jar of saffron water perched on her grandmother’s counter in Paris.
The jar sat there, ready to brighten her grandmother’s Passover recipes like rice, chicken and the first course, pescado blanco, the Judeo-Spanish name for the dish Ms. Tapiero’s grandmother Violette Corcos Budestchu ate growing up in Morocco and later made at Passovers in Paris.
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David Page is a US and Israeli attorney practicing law in Jerusalem. David is a graduate of Harvard University and the University of Chicago Law School, after which he went to study European law at the University of Paris and to clerk on the US Court of Appeals. David also has learned at the Mir Yeshiva, and has taught public health policy at the Faculty of Law of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and published in the field. He served as regulatory counsel in an American Israeli high-tech company for more than a decade dealing with medical technology and has for the past half decade practiced law and risk management as principal of his own Jerusalem-based business and private law firm. His latest books are Rav Gustman (Mesorah Publications 2018) and a forthcoming book on wine and alcohol usage from the perspective of the Written and Oral Torah, Mystery of the Tree of Knowledge (2021). You can write David at david@davidpagelaw.com or visit him at www.davidpagelaw.com.