Rabbi Pinchas Stolper attended Yeshivas Chaim Berlin due to an interesting sequence of events. A few short years after the Holocaust, then-Mayor of New York Vincent Impellitteri [voted "Mayor with weirdest name ever"] invited a German soccer team to City Hall and honored them with a reception. With the pain of the Holocaust still fresh, Stolper felt it his duty to stand up and protest what he considered a serious affront to the memories of the six million.
He and 12 other people gathered to distribute leaflets and throw rotten tomatoes at the mayor, his entourage and the German soccer team. The reception was ruined and Stolper was arrested. Stolper’s picture was splashed on the front cover of the Daily Mirror as well as many other papers.
The following day Rabbi Hutner was eating breakfast together with Rabbi Chaim Feuerman and was perusing a copy of the Daily Mirror. Hutner pointed to the picture of the then 18 year old Pinchas Stolper and exclaimed "This young man has chutzpah. We need him in our Yeshiva." From that event Stolper was enrolled into Yeshivas Chaim Berlin and became one of the central talmidim of Hutner dedicating his life to disseminating Hutner's Torah to the world.
Thursday, May 26, 2022
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