Wire

Sign in to baba News

One account across the web, iPhone and Android — your subscription follows it.

or use an email code

By continuing you agree to the terms and privacy policy.

News Plus

Welcome, one more step

The cross-newsroom layer: who covered a story, who didn’t, and how each one worded it. Plus your own news, on every device.

Follow your news

  • Unlimited follows
  • Alerts for what you follow (in the app)
  • Story alerts (in the app)
  • Hide read stories
  • The daily brief by email

See the coverage

  • Headlines side by side
  • Who reported first
  • Every newsroom clip, from every platform
  • Every newsroom photo on a story

Go deeper

  • The whole archive
  • Your reading diet
  • Duki without the daily limit
  • The Desk: the news, spoken every hour
  • Catch Me Up, and what changed since you read it
  • The Wire

Free stays free: the live wire, Not Everywhere, the brief, five follows and five Duki questions a day.

Search stories

Type at least two characters. Results come from every newsroom baba reads.

↑↓ to move · ↵ to open · esc to close

Sign in to baba News

Sign in to keep asking. News Plus removes the daily limit.

or use an email code

By continuing you agree to the terms and privacy policy.

News Plus · Ask Duki

Keep asking Duki

A free account gets five questions a day. News Plus lifts the daily limit.

Also in News Plus

  • The whole archive
  • Headlines side by side
  • Who reported first
  • The Desk, every hour

Full coverage· Culture· Updated

Rabbi Zilberstein Recounts How Torah Study Prevented Hitler's Conquest of Lithuania

Rabbi Yitzchak Zilberstein shared a story at a wedding on Thursday, attributing the prevention of Hitler's conquest of Lithuania to the Torah scholarship of Rabbis Baruch Ber Leibowitz and Shimon Shkop. He heard the story from Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, who heard it from Rabbi Chazon Ish.

2 newsrooms · 1 language · since

Sign in to baba News

Sign in to save this article and find it on your phone.

or use an email code

By continuing you agree to the terms and privacy policy.

What happened

  1. 01Rabbi Yitzchak Zilberstein stated that Rabbis Baruch Ber Leibowitz and Shimon Shkop prevented Hitler's conquest of Lithuania.
  2. 02The story was relayed by Zilberstein, who heard it from Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, who heard it from Rabbi Chazon Ish.
  3. 03Zilberstein shared the narrative at the wedding of Rabbi Yisrael Meir Druck's daughter.
  4. 04He connected the story to the groom's lineage, which includes Rabbi Baruch Ber Leibowitz.
  5. 05Zilberstein prayed for divine protection through the merit of righteous scholars.

Zilberstein used the anecdote to emphasize the protective power of Torah study and prayed for divine protection for those present.

Translated and summarized by baba from JDN, the latest report. Read JDN’s original

The coverage

2 newsrooms on this story

Who covered it

  • LeftNone
  • CentreNone
  • RightNone
  • Haredi2
  • ArabNone

How it broke

Plus

News Plus · Who reported first

See which newsroom broke it

The order the newsrooms filed in, and how long each side of the press waited before running the story.

Also in News Plus

  • Headlines side by side
  • Story alerts
  • The Wire
  • Unlimited follows

How it reads

Neutral tone, on average across the newsrooms

How temperature and stance are measured