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.

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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