For over half a century, Rav Moshe Heinemann has been setting the bar high on kashrus, as head of the STAR-K and as a foremost authority in the ever-more-complex field of kosher certification
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When the time came to build a mikveh in Lakewood shortly after Rav Aharon Kotler’s petirah in 1962, that all-important mission was entrusted to a talmid for whom the Lakewood rosh yeshivah had forseen a shining future as a moreh hora’ah for Klal Yisrael: Rav Moshe Heinemann, then a Beth Medrash Govoha yungerman in his mid-twenties.
As we sit together in the conference room of the STAR-K, the Baltimore-based kashrus certification agency Rav Moshe Heinemann has led for half a century, he recalls his visit to the venerable Rebbe Yoel of Satmar to discuss the mikveh project. “I asked the Rebbe, ‘What’s the best way to make a mikveh?’ and he replied with customary wit: ‘The best way is not to make it based on the Shulchan Aruch.’ After a pause, he continue
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Airboat on the surface of Larz Anderson Park lagoon, Brookline, MA
Eruvin in urban areas often grow by addition of new segments to their original borders. In October 2016, we extended our community eruv to include a large swatch of the southern residential section of Brookline, MA. We had been approached by Rabbi Mendy Uminer of the Chabad of Chestnut Hill with a request to enable his growing community to (1) utilize an Eruv for enhancing the Shabbos experience in his neighborhoods and (2) enable people to walk (while carrying) on Shabbos between the larger eruv and his area.