Mega Dee Voch Pesach Package on Newsstands!

By Idy Perl

Yiddish readers worldwide have eagerly anticipated the release of the Dee Voch, Shrift, and Kinder Shrift's mega Pesach magazine package - and it certainly did not disappoint. The weekly magazine always delight fans with its quality content, but the Yom Tov supplements take things to a new level. This year’s Pesach magazine and supplements are chock full of interesting stories, articles, photography, and so much more, and is sure to enhance and uplift every reader’s Yom Tov. 

The Dee Voch edition is a special 200-page magazine of beautiful photo galleries showing preparations for Yom Tov in the homes of rebbes, birchas ilonos by several gedolim, and the yahrtzeit of the Skevere Rebe, zt"l, at the home of his son, the current Skvere Rebbe. Several kehillos celebrated a hachnoses sefer Torah, including the large Rachmistrivka beis medrash, Slonim, and the Viznitz Yeshiva Ketana in Boro Park, which had a chanukas habayis as well. Other galleries include the bris for the grandson of the Boyane Rebbe, and Motzaei Shabbos with the Pshevorske Rebbe, plus much more of excting and interesting content from the Heimishe neighborhoods and Kehilas.

This week’s Shrift is 700-pages of content that cover a wide range of fascinating topics. First is the rare, historical Yom Tov speech by the Ponovezh Rosh Yeshiva, Reb Boruch Dov Povarsky, Shlit"a. The Shrift then visits the legendary headquarters of the Hisachdus hashgacha in Williamsburg and has a conversations with the talented directors to help readers gain insight into their unbelievable operation. The Shrift includes a rare conversation with Holocaust survivor Reb Leibel Friedman shlit"a, rosh hakuel of the Satmar community in Boro Park, about the pre-war years in the heim, the terrifying experiences and miracles that accompanied him throughout the war until his liberation and the founding of the "Zichron Kedoshim" organization.

Readers are then taken around the world, first with Reb Moshe Klein, who reports on his fascinating encounter with Jewish life in Venezuela, and then a visit to Gibraltar, where nature, yiddishkeit, and history meet. Renowned writer and researcher Reb Binyomin Kluge takes us on a walk through the famous Kikar HaShabbos in Yerushalayim, tying the past and present together in one place.

In a series of unique features, Shrift explores: a rare look into the founders of the classic Yeshivish niggun and today’s authentic Litvish musical spirit; an in-depth interview with legendary askan R’ Berish Freilich, reflecting on his decades of service to the Klal; a powerful 24-hour photo project inside Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim at 18 Forshay, Monsey, NY; an inspiring conversation with the founders of the renowned Nechomos Yisroel organization; and a front-row seat to chesed in action—spending four hours alongside four devoted askanim to witness their selfless dedication to the Klal up close.

In Shrift, you'll also find an in-depth look at the behind-the-scenes operations in various kehillos that provide meals and hachnosas orchim for the many guests during Yom Tov. Plus, don’t miss “Ten Questions for Ten Figures” — a special feature with well-known personalities from around the world.

And much more...

The business Shrift covers an important conversation about life insurance with the two owners of a life insurance empire that has already sold tens of billions in life insurance coverage: Reb Aharon Klein and Reb Yaaov Kahana, from Mass Mutual Life Insurance. 

The Pesach edition of the Kinder Shrift contains an entertaining 32-page comic story that’ll delight readers. In addition, the kinder Shrift includes a feature on the largest beis shechitah in New York, the Kiryas Yoel beis shechitah, where readers will learn about how the kosher meat processing works. Another article brings children into the desert to better understand the journey that Klal Yisroel took, with an interview of two children, Zev and Motty Lerner, who spent the summer in the deserts of Arizona. 

Last but not least, kids and adults alike will be delighted to visit Fort Wadsworth, located right beneath the Verrazano Bridge, where history comes alive, preserved just as it was a hundred years ago.