Unpacking Agudah’s Attic      

“He knew all these things before Google,” Rabbi Labish Becker, Agudah’s executive director, tells me.

But Rabbi Kolodny could have one advantage over Google — his memory might be better.

When Mishpacha writer Dovi Safier was conducting research for his article last year on Rav Leib Malin, he did an exhaustive search for an elusive recording of the Beis Hatalmud rosh yeshivah’s levayah. He finally called Rabbi Kolodny.

“No, I don’t have the recording,” Rabbi Kolodny said. “But I was there.”