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Tuesday is the Yahrzeit of Rabbi Amram Blau (Bloi), and whoever is interested, the Mishkenot HaRoim group in Mea Shearim is organizing a Mishnayiot study in order to remember the famous Jerusalem character. The study is due to start in the early afternoon.Rabbi Amram Blau used to be the head of the Neturei Karta in Mea Shearim and died in 1974. more@Shearim.blogspot.com

“Shomer ha-Homot” . Moses Blau (1885–1946) was an Agudat Israel leader; brother of R. Amram Blau. R. Moses Blau, who was born in Jerusalem, directed the Agudat Israel office there from 1924 until his death. He served as a member of the movement’s world executive and edited its weekly Kol Yisrael (”Voice of Israel”). From 1933 to 1945 he headed the independent, ultra-Orthodox Edah Haredit (Orthodox community). Despite the community’s segregation policy, he cooperated with yishuv leaders in representing Jewish interests in dealings with the Mandate government. R. Blau represented Agudat Israel before various British and international commissions which dealt with the Palestine problem. In 1946, while on a rescue mission to Jewish survivors of the war, R. Blau fell ill and died in Messina. He was taken to Jerusalem for burial. He wrote Ammuda di-Nehora (”Column of Light,” 1932), a biography of Rabbi Y. H. Sonnenfeld, and Al Homotayikh Yerushalayim (”Upon thy Walls, O Jerusalem,” 1946), autobiographical notes and memoirs.” more@VirtualJudaica.com
Where is Yossele?
“The police now mobilized to scour the country in search of Yossele. Therefore the rabbonim decided to smuggle the child abroad and to find him surrogate parents. Ruth Ben David (later Ruth Blau, the wife of Rav Amram Blau, a leader of Neturei Karta) agreed to carry out the mission and went to meet with the boy in his place of hiding. One of the figures handling the affair, Leibel Freidman, introduced the two. “more@ShemaYisrael.com