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The Ponevezher Rav looked up at the behemoth hotel and exclaimed: “This building is perfect for a yeshivah!”

Walther Rathenau grew up with aspirations of assimilation for German Jewry

The Kossover Rebbe tackled the thorniest issues dragging down the generation while pulling thousands to the Heavens

Rav Yaakov Aryeh Guterman of Radzymin (1792–1874) was a student of chassidic masters

He wanted to go to the most important building in camp: the beis medrash

Despite the fact that such personalities themselves are often forgotten, their legacies are often exceptional and distinct