(Pre-eminent American Posek and President of the Agudath HaRabbanim, 1895-1985). Autograph Letter Signed, written in Hebrew on letterhead to R. Yitzchak Ya’akov Levin.

FEINSTEIN, MOSHE

24th Teveth

New York

1962

Subsequent to a telephone conversation, Reb Moishe clarifies here his views in regard to the kashruth situation of a butcher in Lawrence, MA.

R. Yitzchak Ya’akov Levine (1884-1963) was from the same from town as Reb Moishe: Uzda, near Minsk, Belarus. Upon migration to the United States R. Yitzchak Ya’akov was appointed rabbi of the Beis Midrash HaGadol Boston (the Crawford Street Shul). He was president of the Va’ad HaRabonim of Boston, as well as the city’s Av Beth Din. For his obituary in HaPardess (1964