Shmuel Kamenetsky – America’s Pope

In his second lecture for Torah in Motion on Rabbi Moses Kunitz, professor Marc B. Shapiro says: “They’re building Shmuel Kamenetsky into America’s pope. He now is the man to deal with all issues, be it Orthodox gays… Ten years ago, five years ago, I wouldn’t have said Shmuel Kamenetsky. I would’ve said Dovid Feinstein or someone else. The roshei yeshiva at YU (Mordecai Willig, Hershel Shachter, David Bleich), there’s no comparison [in their superiority in Torah knowledge when compared to Rav Shmuel Kamenetsky and the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah in America.”