Gil Student

My author copies of the book finally arrived and the book looks great! I’m very excited about this publication. I recently did a Q&A with the newspaper, The Jewish Vues. Links to order the book and read the Q&A to follow

@arik3000 jpost.com/middle-east/ar…

BREAKING NEWS: Hamas is about surrender Diplomatic sources in the US and Israel are updating that Hamas is very close to announcing its disarmament. “It is a very detailed and meticulous outline for a complete disarmament of weapons and tunnels”, one source said. He defined the development as Hamas' surrender. The sources added that this is how things look at the moment and the picture is very optimistic. However, based on past experience, things could get wrong in the last moment.

@shabboshouse My only grandson old enough to appreciate the cards is only in town for a few days

@GilStudent man, you're too eager! I thought these packs are meant to be opened slowly, not all at once! Like the spectrum! R' Moshe Zvi Neria is probably underappreciated outside his sphere, but very interesting blend & influence. As is R' Jonathan Sacks (differently) & R' Asher Weiss.

I opened another 10-pack of Jewish Legacies cards with my grandson. This one has a lot of contemporaries. I was able to show him which ones I know and one even his mother met.

Hahashgocha K’Hilchasa • With the OU Policies • ⁠Available from Machon Aleh Zayis

@thememegemach No

@GilStudent Is this a paid advertisement for Jewish legacies?

If you order through this link, you get free shipping jewishlegacies.com/discount/Rabbi…

@shtetlite @isaacson @Jewish_Action Rebbetzin Kanievsky, Nechama Leibowitz

@isaacson @GilStudent @Jewish_Action Genuinely asking, who are some examples you have in mind?

I opened up a 10-pack of Jewish Legacies cards with my grandson and we got some heavy hitters jewishlegacies.com

@shabboshouse He was extremely prolific and edited the journal HaDarom. The YU library catalog lists 50 publications under his name

@GilStudent The old classic blue Ramban set! What else did he write?

After work, we opened up another 10-pack. This one includes Rav Dovid Lifshitz, Rav Ya’akov Bender, Rav Dovid & Rav Reuven Feinstein, Rav Hutner and some nineteenth century rabbis. Rav Charles Chavel is a great surprise. I had no idea what he looked like.

@TechRav @ShmuelWiniarz I’m ok with that

@GilStudent @ShmuelWiniarz Methinks Rav Aharon Lichtenstein Zatzal and Rav Yehuda Parnes Shlita disagreed.

New motto for NYC: “We’re investigating to determine if it was a hate crime.”

@ShmuelWiniarz @TechRav In my opinion, spectator sports is assimilation

@GilStudent @TechRav Ahh did you ever listen to R. Rakeffet's hesped on Joe Dimaggio?

@TechRav Baruch Hashem I don’t have to deal with students who respond to this kind of mussar

@GilStudent And my rebbe, Rav Parnes gave a Mussar schmooze on the value of Temidius consistency after Cal Ripken broke Lou Gehrig’s record for consecutive games played. As a Yeshiva high school rebbe professional sports is often the best Mussar.

William C. Daroff and Betsy Berns Korn, CEO and chair of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Institutions: “Words matter: It’s time for New Yorkers to reject Zohran Mamdani’s dangerous ‘genocide’ libel” jta.org/2026/07/27/ide…

@isaacson @Jewish_Action Again, if there was a market for such blatant affirmative action, you’d see it happening. The real market is for organic discussion of people who are meaningful. And it’s happening quietly. I once reviewed in Jewish Action a Charedi Gedolim book that includes women

@GilStudent Maybe if @Jewish_Action did an ongoing series of biographies of female jewish leaders past and present we can make such cards marketable 😉

@TechRav I automatically space out whenever anyone or any song mentions professional sports. I have no idea why Jews hold up professional sports players as role models. I think those who do so are all crazy.

@GilStudent Cue the 🎶 youtu.be/2Rj-Lun1NEU?si…

@isaacson Torah She-Be-Al Peh. Talk about what and who are important to you.

@GilStudent Ofc! just as much as I want my grandsons to look up to righteous female leaders. But I have no mechanism to expose them.