Why Did My Family Call Everyone "Moshe Kalich"?

[Stephan Huller]

I think I figured out all the strange things about my family - except for this one. Why if some stranger was walking down the street they would say "look at Moshe Kalich over there?"

[Peter Kirby]

Have you tried asking Adam Greenwald yet?

[Stephan Huller]

No

[Clive]

Is this sad tale related? http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/.premium-1.550563

Setting the record straight on one woman's breakaway from Hasidic life
Ita Kalish broke away from her Hasidic Polish family in the 1920s and went on to lead a secular, independent life in pre-state Israel. Before she died, she set the record straight about abandoning her child.