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Why should a male who is in a wheelchair not get an aliyah to the Torah?
Isaac Leeser (1806–1868)—Champion of Orthodoxy
If Orthodoxy would take root in American soil, it would be because figures like Isaac Leeser planted it deliberately and tended it with care.
Rabbi Abraham Joseph Rice (1802–1862)—In Complete Isolation: The Struggle for Torah in America
What he encountered here—resistance, reform, loneliness and relentless responsibility—would define the challenges facing Orthodoxy in America for generations.
Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein (1890–1970)—The Maverick Rabbi
The rabbi’s challenge bordered on the impossible: to go against the mainstream culture and attract a generation of young people sliding into the American melting pot.