The Underground
Yaakov Astor, Editor-in-Chief of Zman Magazine, has written, co-written or edited more than twenty-five books. His most recent books are Rav Avigdor Miller on Emunah and Bitachon, The Hidden Hand: The Holocaust, and The Hidden Hand: Uncovering Divine Providence in Major Events of the 20th Century.A former yeshivah teacher and principal, he was also editor of Nehemiah and Trei Asar, Vol. 1, in the ArtScroll Tanach Series. He has published numerous articles over the years in Yated Ne eman, Hamodia, Mishpacha, The Jewish Observer, and other publications.He has worked with Rabbi Joseph Elias, shlit a, on producing the Holocaust Curriculum for Torah Umesorah and is currently working with Rabbi Berel Wein producing an online Jewish History course for the Destiny Foundation.He is also Deputy Director for Zechor Yemos Olam, the Holocaust education branch of Torah Umesorah. In this capacity, he helps develop and administer the ZYO Fellowships, a year-long online course that teaches the teachers how to teach the Holocaust.Rabbi Mordechai Neustadt is the founder of the Vaad L Hatzolas Nidchei Yisroel. As a young man growing up in Eretz Yisroel, he showed early leadership ability, assuming an active role in Tz irei Agudas Yisroel and other organizations that gave chizuk to orphans, survivors, and young Jews whose commitment to Torah was wavering. After the war, he served as a menahel in Ohr HaChaim, the first large chareidi Sephardic girls school. In 1965, he moved with his wife to America and they started a travel business. Rabbi Neustadt was elected at a Knessia Gedolah to head the legendary Vaad Hatzalah that had saved Jews during the Holocaust, and soon thereafter he initiated the Shlichim Project, which was the forerunner of what ultimately became the multi-faceted organization he named the Vaad L Hatzolas Nidchei Yisroel.