Yehuda Geberer is a historian and tour guide of Jewish historical sites in Europe and Israel, and is the host of the Jewish History Soundbites podcast.
“Prohibition" created a difficult situation for American Jewry, who relied on wine for ritual practices such as Kiddush, Havdalah, bris milah, and weddings
Chief among the dignitaries was a young rabbi recently arrived from Piotrkow, Poland, not long after his own ambitious groundbreaking event — for Yeshivas Chachmei Lublin
Though Rav Binyomin Beinush may not be as well known as his father, grandfather, or son-in-law Rav Nosson Tzvi, perhaps that is exactly how he wanted it to be