Yahuda101 Story about the song Shema Yisrael by Yaakov Shwekey
Yahuda101 Story about the song Shema Yisrael by Yaakov Shwekey Story about the song Shema Yisrael by Yaakov Shwekey By Yahuda101 Eliezer Silver ( Hebrew : אליעזר סילבר; February 15, 1882 - February 7, 1968) was the President of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the U.S. and Canada and among American Jewry's foremost religious leaders. He helped save many thousands of Jews in the Second World War and held several Rabbinical positions in New York , Pennsylvania , Massachusetts and Ohio . Silver convened an emergency meeting in November 1939 in New York City, where the Vaad Hatzalah (Rescue Committee), was formed, with Silver as president. Silver spearheaded its efforts in rescuing as many European Torah scholars as possible from Nazi Europe . Silver launched a fund-raising drive that raised more than $5 million, and also capitalised on an exemption to US immigration quotas allowing entry to ministers or religious students. At his direction, synagogues in Cincinnati and acro...