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On his 13th yahrtzeit this 17 Adar, a tribute to the indefatigable Reb Eli Teitelbaum
Photos: Family archives
It was the 1960s, and Eli Teitelbaum was just a bochur when his star began to rise. The son of a rabbi from Kew Gardens, Queens, Eli was short, focused, a powerhouse of energy, and determined to channel his talents, charisma, and easy rapport with children into Klal Yisrael’s future: the youth.
“It’s no exaggeration to say that he was one of the Founding Fathers of American Yiddishkeit in the 1960’s or that there was no yeshivah boy in Brooklyn who did not know Eli Teitelbaum’s name,” says Rabbi Shimon Grama, former National Director of Pirchei Agudas Yisrael.
Why the Agudah took Cuomo to court: The story behind the scenes
Photos: Itzik Roytman, Mishpacha archives
Amid all the personal tragedy and economic hardship the coronavirus pandemic has wrought, it has been difficult to discern points of light and hope in the communal darkness. But they’re there: The emergence with unprecedented speed of several effective vaccines was one such ray of light.
And another light has recently shone forth, this time not from laboratories but from the highest courts in the land, lifting the spirits of frum Jews throughout America. Two legal rulings first by the United States Supreme Court and a month later, by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, the New York region’s top federal court resoundingly affirmed the rights of Americans of faith to practice their religions free of severe, ostensibly health-related restrictions targeting them, even amid the pandemic.