The Slutsker Rav when visiting New York in 1900, said that anyone who emigrated to America was a sinner…it was not only home that the Jews left in Europe, but their Torah, their Talmud, their Yeshivot – in a word, their yiddishkeit, their entire Jewish way of life.” -Samuel Dresner
With all its freedoms and permissiveness America presented a whole new challenge to this age-old faith, one with which we are still wrestling.
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