Touching History
Subtitle: From Williamsburg to Jerusalem
Publisher: Gefen Publishing House
Published: Mar 15, 2015
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9789652296399
Description: Describes the career of Rabbi Gold, whose youth was shaped in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, NY. He attended yeshivas Torah Vodaath, Ner Israel, Ponevezh and Ḥevron. Founder of Ner Israel in Toronto and B'nai Torah, Willowdale; later rabbi in Young Israel of West Hempstead 1971-1981, and Zichron Yosef, Har Nof, Jerusalem, as well as dean of the OU Israel Center's college for adults. Relates of relationships and memorable encounters with many of the Torah world’s most illustrious personages and prominent Israeli political figures, and many anecdotes from his years in the rabbinate, including a mission into the heart of Soviet Russia, [and creation of opposition to the 1993 Oslo Accord]--
Notes: Source title: Touching History: From Williamsburg to Jerusalem