Letter handwritten and signed by R. Moshe Feinstein. New York, 10th Adar 1968.

Addressed to "my friend the great Gaon" R. Yechezkel Abramsky in Jerusalem, a leader of the Moetzet Gedolei HaTorah in Eretz Israel, regarding the activities of the Peilim organization in the absorption of children of Moroccan immigrants to Israel into a Torah education.

R. Moshe states that since the facts relating to the Moroccan children are unknown and disputed, R. Dov Zev Weinberger was to travel to Israel in order to give a reliable report. He asks R. Abramsky to inform him of the details and let him know "what we are to do".

R. Moshe Feinstein (1895-1986), foremost halachic authority in the United States. A leader of Orthodox Jewry, he served as president of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada, and chairman of the Moetzet Gedolei HaTorah. He was the dean of the Tiferet Yerushalayim yeshiva in New York. He authored Responsa Igrot Moshe, Dibrot Moshe – Talmudic novellae, and Darash Moshe – novellae on the Torah.

R. Moshe Feinstein had served as Rabbi of Lyuban, Belarus in 1921-1936 under the Bolsheviks, and it was during this period that he met R. Abramsky (1886-1976), who served as Rabbi of Slutsk from 1923-1930 until his arrest and exile to Siberia.

[1] leaf. Official stationery. 28 cm. Good condition. Stains and folding marks.