by Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff

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Co-published with Gefen Publishing House

Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff is a loving and beloved educator who has transformed thousands of students through his distinctive mixture of humor, sensitivity, storytelling ability and a profound Torah worldview. In his unique style, Rabbi Rakeffet describes all that he witnessed from his childhood in the Bronx through his adulthood in Jerusalem. The book details the "old Bronx", the "Shanghai Crowd", Yeshiva University, the American Rabbinate and his chosen calling of teaching Torah.

In the Israel section he highlights the Israeli Defense Forces, the teaching of Torah behind the Iron Curtain, and the establishment of university Torah programs geared for the Anglo world.

Explore the dimensions of the embattled Orthodoxy of America in the 1940's and 1950's, the incredible growth of Torah in Israel in the 1970's and beyond, and the remarkable personalities and events that defined those eras.

About the Author

Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff (born 1937) is Rosh Yeshiva and Professor of Rabbinic Literature at Yeshiva University's Caroline and Joseph S. Gruss Institute in Jerusalem. He is a noted scholar, author and teacher who has taught thousands of students throughout his over 50 years of teaching. A close student of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik zt"l, he served as a community rabbi in Pennsylvania and New Jersey and taught Talmud in Yeshiva University before moving to Israel in 1969. In Israel, he was a pioneering educator of Americans and, among his many activities, spearheaded covert teaching of Talmud in the Soviet Union.

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