Hi...I alwys stay at the Magnat Lux as do most of us,,,very good and
central...within walking distance of most everywhere . About
Kofmanski.....all the"stories about him " started after rav Mendel
Glitzenstein (a chabadnik/lubavitscher arrived in town and stared stylinh=g
himself,including on letterheads ""Chief Rabbi of Czernowitz",,,!!!!!!.
Kofmanski is the man who singlehandedly kepy the built-in-1928 shul going
and functioning right through all the hassle periods...including when the
soviets tried to stop religious observances,he held the femaining Jewish
community together ,he started classes in modrn Ivrit.he sent Czernowitzer
kids to Israel to study,he arranged Atzmaut and more importantly,Yom Hashoa
remembrances....where Jews seemed to suddenly appear out of the woodwork
old and many young!! He has for years run "advice" sessions, for women
mainly,to whish many non-jews came "Nu so they are not humans in need?
!!! Alarge part of the local population look on him as a modern version of a
"Wunderrebbe". Re his Shabat service...he does it as it has always
been done in that neck of the woods.My wife also complained "It was not done
in the style and to the dress code of a London shul" but we were not in
Kondon! MAINLY,,,,,,look at the inside of the shul,,,this is there because
rav Kofmanski fought tooth and claw to keep it so - and show me ANY other
shul in Occupied Europe that managed this feat. Fimally,I know of
two torah scrolls on display in Czernowith...1.the museum on Herrengasse
corner ???gasse and 2. In the jewish museum. No idea where e ither of
them had their origin. Cornel
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