Formation of a national committee for the Rabbi Kook Institute in Jerusalem, with the goal of strengthening cultural and religious ties between Israel and American traditional Jewry, was announced here today by Rabbi Chaim Heller, noted Talmudic scholar.
The Rabbi Kook Institute was established in 1938 to honor the memory of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Ha-Cohen Kook, the first Chief Rabbi recognized officially by the British Mandatory Government in Palestine, and one of the founders of the World Mizrachi movement. More than 500 works of enduring importance have been published by the Institute, some of them reprints of important studies in Jewish Law which have virtually disappeared.
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