{"id":41779,"date":"2012-03-15T19:42:43","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T03:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=41779"},"modified":"2012-03-15T19:55:22","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T03:55:22","slug":"shmuel-kamenetsky-americas-pope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=41779","title":{"rendered":"Shmuel Kamenetsky &#8211; America&#8217;s Pope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his second lecture for <A HREF=\"http:\/\/torahinmotion.org\">Torah in Motion<\/a> on <A HREF=\"http:\/\/onthemainline.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/on-rabbi-moses-kunitzs-interesting.html\">Rabbi Moses Kunitz<\/a>, professor <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marc_B._Shapiro\">Marc B. Shapiro<\/a> says: &#8220;They&#8217;re building <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shmuel_Kamenetsky\">Shmuel Kamenetsky<\/a> into America&#8217;s pope. He now is the man to deal with all issues, be it Orthodox gays&#8230; Ten years ago, five years ago, I wouldn&#8217;t have said Shmuel Kamenetsky. I would&#8217;ve said <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dovid_Feinstein\">Dovid Feinstein<\/a> or someone else. The roshei yeshiva at YU (<A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mordechai_Willig\">Mordecai Willig<\/a>, Hershel Shachter, <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/J._David_Bleich\">David Bleich<\/a>), there&#8217;s no comparison [in their superiority in Torah knowledge when compared to Rav Shmuel Kamenetsky and the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah in America.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his second lecture for Torah in Motion on Rabbi Moses Kunitz, professor Marc B. Shapiro says: &#8220;They&#8217;re building Shmuel Kamenetsky into America&#8217;s pope. He now is the man to deal with all issues, be it Orthodox gays&#8230; Ten years &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=41779\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marc-b-shapiro","category-orthodoxy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41782,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41779\/revisions\/41782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}