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Remembering Rabbi Yehiel Eckstein

“He felt that the best way to touch them would be to address them in their own language, to lower as much as possible all the barriers.”

Rabbi Yehiel Eckstein greets arrivals on a 2015 Fellowship-funded aliyah flight.
Rabbi Yehiel Eckstein greets arrivals on a 2015 Fellowship-funded aliyah flight.
(photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM)
ByPEGGY CIDOR
FEBRUARY 13, 2019 17:05
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