Author: Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, Translated by Shira Leibowitz Schmidt and Jessica Setbon

Do Not Harm the Child: Excerpts from Rabbi Lau’s Translated Memoirs

In this remarkable autobiography, Rabbi Israel Meir Lau tells his story of rising from the ashes of the Holocaust to become the chief rabbi of Israel. As a young boy nicknamed Lulek, he is saved from the Nazi inferno by his older brother Naphtali, who fulfills their father’s dying wish to ensure the continuation of […]