Dr. Aaron D. Burack, Professor of Talmud and Homiletics at Yeshiva University, died Friday while conducting services at his synagogue in Brooklyn.
The 68-year-old rabbi was vice-chairman of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada, and of the Religious Zionists of America–Mizrachi-Hapoel Hamizrachi. Rabbi Burack was also on the boards of the United Jewish Appeal, the Jewish National Fund and the United HIAS service.
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