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Blog Entry The “skinny” on our Sefira Minhag This article is not being written based on research, but is being written to convey our minhag as espoused in Washington Heights, with some verbal tradition that I have picked up when learning among the community members in the Beis Hamedrash over the years. Our sefira minhag […]

Eleff Sums It Up?

Admin May 11, 2017

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I’m in the midst of finals and have slowed down on posting videos and blog entries. As I was googling on Isaaac Breuer towards a paper I’m writing I tripped upon the article by Zev Eleff in a previous edition of Tradition. The tone would be offensive to a WH person at first, but it […]

Burning the Chometz

Admin April 13, 2017

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Children’s Parsha Sheet- with an Eye to the German Mesorah

Admin April 7, 2017

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Message from A. Weil of Baltimore Rabbi Yitzy Ettlinger is from Washington Heights and now lives in the Kensington area of Brooklyn where he is a rebbi in an Iranian cheder. He was also involved for a number of years as a founder of the Ashkenaz Minyan in that area. In order to spark interest […]

Rav Breuer’s Seder Minhagim

Admin April 5, 2017

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Below are the PERSONAL minhagim of Rav Breuer ZtL at his family seder. They are likely minhagim of Jews from Papa, Hungary – his father’s birthplace. The list was compiled by his grandson Mr. Samson Bechhofer and distributed in a bentcher at his son’s Bar Mitzvah close to thirty years ago. My thanks to him […]

Rav Breuer on College?

Admin April 5, 2017

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Here is an article that appeared in “Light Magazine”, a popular publication with very Yeshivish leanings in the 70s and 80s. The article is about Rav Breuer zl and was published shortly after his passing. The irony is that it tells a story of a Yeshiva bochur who asked advice about going to college and […]

The Seder

Admin March 28, 2017

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As far as we can remember, in our home when the Seder reached its second activity, “Urchatz”- the washing of the hands in preparation for the dipping of the Karpas vegetable, a basin was brought to my father from which he would wash his hands. No other member of the family washed their hands at […]

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