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.
While both Rav Chaim Ozer and the Chofetz Chaim were able to reestablish themselves in independent Poland, they never ceased in their attempts to assist the Jews of Russia
At a time when Conservative Judaism was seen as the future, an Orthodox Jewish day school in the Rockaways was the daring vision of a local rav named Rabbi Mordechai Shuchatowitz
The invitations stipulated that guests be appropriate attired, blessings be recited over food, and — most of all — that dancing be separate throughout the affair