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A report on Rav Elyashiv, whose funeral drew 250,000 mourners

by
Adam Chandler
July 31, 2012

News of the death of Rabbi Yosef Elyashiv may have not made major headlines abroad, but his death prompted a massive outpouring for the once-in-a-century religious figure and power broker. Michael J. Broyde and Mark Goldfeder have written about him here.

Adam Chandler was previously a staff writer at Tablet. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, Slate, Esquire, New York, and elsewhere. He tweets @allmychandler.