Don’t conflate Torah values with conservative Republican values
Yosef Herz’s excellent article on Hunter, New York, brought back great memories of my youth.
My father, Rav Meir Cohen, who was the menahel of the Agudath Harabonim, bought a home in Hunter the early 1950s. The home was previously known as Mandel’s Rooming House on Wyndham Road in Hunter and was built around 1910. For about ten years, my family used to spend the summer up in Hunter.
I remember the Hunter Shul very well; it served as the center of Jewish life in the community. It was there that a number of very choshuve rabbanim and chassidishe rebbes would congregate on a daily basis to daven and learn, including Rav Moshe Bunim Pirutinsky, mechaber Sefer HaBris; Rav Eliezer Perlow, mechaber Imrei Eliezer; Rav Naftoli Friedler, Rosh Yeshivah of Breuer’s; Rav Dovid Singer, Rav of the Sefardishe Shul in Boro Park; the Bluzhever Rebbe, the Bobover Rebbe, and others.
My father was especially close to Rabbi Herbert Goldstein, the son-in-law of renowned philanthropist Harry Fischel, since he was a student in Rabbi Goldstein’s Rabbinic Homiletics class in Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yitzchok Elchonon shortly after he came to America in the early 1920s.
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