Authors Posts by Oran Zweiter
Oran Zweiter
Oran Zweiter is a doctoral student in American Jewish History, whose research interests focus on the history of halakha and the rabbinate in America. He is the head of the Jewish History and Tanach departments at Hillel Academy of Pittsburgh. He can be reached at zweiter@gmail.com.
Shabbat on the Lower East Side Through the Prism of an Early American Posek
Oran Zweiter
The first collection of she’elot u-teshuvot (rabbinic responsa to communal queries) printed in the United States, Ohel Yosef by Rabbi Yosef Eliyahu Fried...
Challenges of the American Rabbinate from the First Rabbi in the Americas: In Honor...
Oran Zweiter
Rabbi Isaac Aboab da Fonseca, the first ordained rabbi to travel to the Americas, arrived in Recife, Brazil in 1642. The writings of...
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