Rav Meir Simcha was a dominating presence at rabbinical conferences in the waning years of czarist rule
Rav Dovid Leibowitz may have been the first to adopt the Chofetz Chaim name in America, but many subsequent mosdos would proudly carry the beloved gadol hador’s name as well
For more than a quarter century, Rabbi Yisroel Rosenberg was the dean of the American Orthodox rabbinate
Already a renowned communal rabbi, chassidic leader, and rosh yeshivah prior to the war, the Satmar Rebbe served as rav of several towns in Czechoslovakia and Transylvania Photo credit: Kedem Auction House Title: Running for the Rabbinate in Romania Location: Cluj (Klausenburg), Romania Document: Certificate of Rabbinical Appointment (Ksav Rabbanus) Time: 1921 Although
Rav Aharon felt that hakaras hatov for Eisenhower’s lifesaving act warranted a Mi Shebeirach
The inquiry was about Yeshivas Knesses Beis Yitzchok, which more than 40 years earlier had been located in the Kovno suburb of Slabodka
