Comments on: Skver Asked To Evacuate Homowack Lodge

By: bplady

bplady — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:37:16 +0000

I had gone many times for Shabbos Nachamu
before it was sold. It used to be a great hotel.

By: YYSV

YYSV — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:18:37 +0000

sammygol

In Skver they do eat fish on Pesach, (some of them might even start ‘talking’ to you during the seder). In Viznitz they have a custom not to eat fish on Pesach, therefore they eat chicken in a form of gefilte fish called falshe fish.
The Viznitzer Rebbe himself doesn’t eat meat or chicken all year round, so Pesach not being able to eat fish nor chicken, creates a bit of a problem, but he still manages with some kugel etc.

By: shimen

shimen — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:20:57 +0000

#1 something is fishy…pesach in homowack last year? it wasnt and isnt open for pesach since sq. owns it..

By: Klal Yisroel

Klal Yisroel — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:53:54 +0000

So that’s it? No Shtetel?! All plans down the drain?

By: Wolffman

Wolffman — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:53:24 +0000

I spent Pesach at the Homowack last year – great Yom Tov – great crowd. The hotel, however, was another story.

It was in such disrepair as to be rather alarming. Physical damage everywhere, from holes in ceilings and walls to torn carpets – carpeting in halls that had been saturated with water during an earlier fire hae been more or less left – entire sections of the hotel reaked of mold. Mattresses that did not fit boxsprings, light fixtures without bulbs, malfunctioning door locks. Quite a mess.