Rabbi Steven Dworken, executive vice president of the Rabbinical Council of America, died of a heart attack Monday in New York at 58. Dworken, who led the group that represents 1,100 Orthodox rabbis and serves as the rabbinic authority for the Orthodox Union’s commission on kashrut, was eulogized at a Yeshiva University service Tuesday.
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