The Midwest in the early 1900s was a spiritual wasteland with a nominal Jewish presence at best. If the fledgling community was to stand a chance of survival, it was clear that there was a great deal of organizing required to make it viable. A little-known related story concerns the arrival in 1922 of the Zidichover Rebbe, Rav Yehoshua Heschel Eichenstein, z”l , who, with his wife, arrived in Chicago determined to lay the foundation for a viable Jewish future there. They would spend the rest of their lives establishing a viable framework in which Jewish life could grow and...
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