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Shabbat on the Lower East Side Through the Prism of an...
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...
Animating the Dialogue – A Review of Yeshiva Days: Learning on...
Sima Fried reviews Jonathan Boyarin’s Yeshiva Days, illuminating the challenges of examining a community as both an insider and an outsider.
“Everyman’s Gadol”: An Appreciation of Rav Dovid Feinstein zt”l
Zvi Romm, a Rav on the Lower East Side for the last eighteen years, shares insights into the unexpected and remarkably democratic personality of the Rosh Yeshiva.