There are two problems with applying R. Frand’s advice to New York. I may be wrong in my assumptions and, if so, please feel free to correct me:
1. The Baltimore community is far smaller than the Brooklyn community. There are far fewer institutions to support and maintain.
2. The Balitmore community is far less fractured than the Brooklyn community. While there will be some cross-communal donations, most people will probably keep most of their money within their own community. The Baltimore community, to my appearance as an occasional visitor, is far more unified and when one person (R. Frand) calls for the entire community to help support a mossad, he will get far better results than if someone in Brooklyn were to issue a similar call.
Again, I may be wrong, but that’s how it appears to me as a Brooklyn resident and occasional Baltimore visitor.
The Wolf