In an age of migration, Rav Shlomo Nosson Kotler (1856–1945) seemed to have been everywhere

Rav Nochumke emerged as a gabbai tzedakah par excellence, devoting his energies to caring for other

“Thousands of speeches and nationalist reproofs could not do as much as one [soccer] game to bring our youngsters back toward Jewishness”

Clutching the casket’s opening, he declared, “Our great rav the Chida, I’m incapable of this task, please arrange it on your own!”

Rav Dovid had the bearing of an old-school baal mussar and a master educator

He possessed an ability to “get things done” 

"These are now our children, the children of the entire Jewish nation"

He did not believe that American yeshivah youth were any less yirei Shomayim than their Eastern European counterparts

Though the city of Chadera eventually developed a secular character, in the 1960s a branch of the Novardok yeshivah opened in Chadera

Ramaz expressed gratitude to Hashem for giving him his son for an additional 32 years