THE CAMPAIGN TO DISCREDIT R. MOSHE FEINSTEIN (VIDEO)
After being offered an obscure book called Maaneh Le’igros by a bookdealer, Rabbi Dunner stumbles across the long-forgotten story of a concerted campaign to undermine the halachic authority and status of Rabbi Moshe Feinstein during the 1960s.
Rabbi Dunner charts the ups-and-downs of this fascinating kulturkampf, later abortively reignited by the author of Ma’aneh Le’igros in 1973.
In this fascinating lecture, discover how the lines were drawn for orthodox Jewry as the first generation of Holocaust survivors struggled to recreate the lost world of pre-war European orthodoxy.
Use this link to read Ma’aneh Le’igros online: MA’ANEH LE’IGROS
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