My full Hebrew name is Yakov Moshe Block. I am names after my great-grandfather, Yakov Moshe Horowitz. He was born in Vishuv, a small town in the Carpathian Mountains. An interesting story about how he came to America. When my great-grandfather first came from Romania, he did not have a job. A strange man once gave him a tip about a position in Scranton, Penn. as a Shochet, a ritual slaughterer. Yakov Moshe was very grateful for the man’s help and wanted to thank him, but when he went to go wash his hands the man disappeared.
My great-grandfather worked in this position until he had enough money to send for the rest of his family. He unfortunately died at a young age from heart complications, but was survived by a very tightly-knit family. He had four children who each had at least 5 children of there own and each family is close to one another.
My mother moved from Scranton, where she grew up, when she went to school at Stern College in 1968. After graduating in 1972, she worked for the soviet Jewry under the direction of Malcolm Hoenline. This went on until she married my father in 1975, and moved to Roslyn, where I live now, and my father serves as the local orthodox rabbi.

Hello From Inside Word

This is an experimentasl post from within Microsoft word, if you can read this, then it works

YUnite

Rabbi Carmy told me that I need to arrange transportation for him to YUnite from his home in brooklyn because his housekeeper is coming-she comes every other week. Does that mean she is coming to YUnite?

i know nobody comes to this thing anymore, but i just got tired of looking at that un guy

The UN- Against Morality?

I advise all watch this, its quite perturbing to see how our UN conducts itself:

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how come this blog does not have a counter

THE DIRE STATE OF OUR BLOGGING!

i was perusing THE WET BLANKET, something i like to do on a regular basis, and i realized that it is not really a blog. the definition of a blog is where the posters post, and the readers respond. i know that most of the readers of the THE WET BLANKET are posters themselves, but when other people post, they become readers as well. in order to maintain the integrity of THE WET BLANKET, we have to increase responses by a lot. it does not have to be anything special, just your thoughts about what was posted. if we find out that Becky has a good reproductive system then post a hearty "B'shaa Tovah!" whatever it is, we need to start making this blog in to something serious!!!!