Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, president of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada, a leading authority on halacha, was described today as being “seriously ill” in Cornell Medical Center where he has been hospitalized since last Thursday.
Rabbi Hersh Ginsberg, the Orthodox Union’s director, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that a day of prayer is being proclaimed for tomorrow at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on behalf of the ailing Orthodox leader. Feinstein will be 90 years old tomorrow. Born in Russia, he came to the United States in 1937.
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