Samuel Turk Explained
Samuel A. Turk (1917–2009) was an American-born pulpit rabbi who wrote columns for decades in The Jewish Press. He was the rabbi of the Kingsbridge Center of Israel rabbi in Riverdale.
He studied at Yeshiva Torah Vodaath under Rabbi Shlomo Heiman and had a Bachelors degree from City College, a Masters from NYU, and a PhD from Yeshiva University.
Issues and Organizations
Turk was the first president and a co-founder of the right-wing[1] [2] [3] [4] Igud HaRabbonim (Rabbinical Alliance of America).[5]
He was one of the rabbis who marched in Washington, DC in 1943 to try to save the Jews of Europe who were being murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust.[6]
Writings
He wrote approximately 1,500 columns for the Jewish Press and in 1973 he published a book of chidushei torah called Kerem Zvi.[7]
Notes and References
- "Rabbi Gross...succeeded Rabbi Bernard Weinberger as president of the right-wing Orthodox rabbinical group." (Jewish Telegraph Agency) https://www.jta.org/1969/06/13/archive/alliance-will-consider-creating-agency-to-handle-funds-of-disbanded-synagogues
- "a clutch of extreme right-wing rabbis called the 'Rabbinical Alliance of America'" (The Forward) https://forward.com/schmooze/132187/paladino-s-apology-sticks-in-rabbi-levin-s-thr/
- Web site: Right-Wing Jewish Groups Split On Congratulating Biden. Jewish Press. Staff.
- "New Challenge To Rabbi Belkin NEW YORK — A challenge of the stand of Rabbi Samuel Belkin in appearing on a program with Reform and Conservative rabbinical leaders has been issued by the Rabbinical Alliance of America, a right wing Orthodox Rabbinical body." (The Jewish Post) https://newspapers.library.in.gov/?a=d&d=JPOST19661125-01.1.12&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------
- Obit, Jewish Press, July 10, 2009, p. 58
- Web site: Wyman Institute Update: September 5, 2007. 5 September 2007.
- kerem zvi, 1973, Brooklin N.Y.
