Samuel Turk
Samuel A. Turk (1917–2009) was an American-born pulpit rabbi who wrote columns for decades in The Jewish Press. He was the rabbi of the Kingsbridge Center of Israel rabbi in Riverdale. He studied at Yeshiva Torah Vodaath under Rabbi Shlomo Heiman and had a Bachelors degree from City College, a Masters from NYU, and a PhD from Yeshiva University. Issues and Organizations Turk was the first president and a co-founder of the right-wing Igud HaRabbonim (Rabbinical Alliance of America). He was one of the rabbis who marched in Washington, DC in 1943 to try to save the Jews of Europe who were being murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust. Writings He wrote approximately 1,500 columns for the Jewish Press and in 1973 he published a book of chidushei torah called Kerem Zvi. References 1917 births 2009 deaths American Haredi rabbis City College of New York alumni New York University alumni Rabbi Jacob Joseph School alumni Yeshiva University alumni 20th-century American rabbis 21st-century American rabbis