Will tempers flare today . Under water. Days of endless rain sending water racing into neighborhoods. We got these people trapped. Nearly 2,000 people rescued by the National Guard. Rivers rising over their banks. Dylan will tell us when the rain will let up. One captured. One on the run. Convicts escape three days ago, one caught overnight. This morning, his accomplice is still on the loose. And what a shot. A neck and neck college game with the huskies and cincinnati bearcats coming down to one shot. Holy cow are you kidding me into a fourth overtime. Uconn fans celebrating everywhere. Today, march 12th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today. Im erica hill. Im craig melvin alongside dylan dreyer and sheinelle jones. How about the huskies . This reminds me of 93. This crazy long, its great and late moment. The uconn huskies. Anyone elses who grew up in connecticut. You have your knowledge. I have small tid bits of knowl
Rav Dovid Soloveitchik lived in a world where the only reality was spiritual. The last living son of the Brisker Rav, his petirah marks the end of a glorious era in the dynasty’s history
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n the yeshiva world, the word “Brisk” is uttered with reverence. It conjures up images of
batei medrash pulsating with activity, erudite scholars steeped in solemnity, scintillating and rigorous analyses, and uncompromising dedication to the truth of Torah.
If Brisk is a kingdom, then it has several royal palaces the yeshivos dotting the heart of Yerushalayim and a royal family that presides over those bastions of Torah. The members of the Soloveitchik family hail from a long line of