{"product_id":"from-washington-avenue-to-washington-street","title":"From Washington Avenue to Washington Street","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet, respected Torah scholar, prolific author, and beloved teacher, comes a beautifully written and fascinating scholarly memoir. Beginning with his childhood on Washington Avenue in the Bronx, he writes candidly of growing up in a post-World War II world where Lithuanian Torah scholars were transplanted to the soil of twentieth-century America, of the ideological clashes between Hasidim, Mitnagdim, and the modern world, and of his personal encounters with dozens of well-known Jewish personalities – including his rebbe, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik. From the world of Yeshiva University, to aliyah to Israel, to becoming a key player in teaching Torah in the refusenik Russian community, Rabbi Rakeffet writes his well-researched memoirs with candor, tremendous insight, and a great deal of humor. With the cancellation of the security clause, he is able to narrate the fascinating inside story of the covert emissaries sent behind the Iron Curtain.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54336591036726,"sku":"g565 \/ 565-1","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0993\/2092\/2422\/files\/i92191.52053.jpg?v=1785309327","url":"https:\/\/www.gefenpublishing.com\/products\/from-washington-avenue-to-washington-street","provider":"Gefen Publishing House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}