Rabbi Hertz Frankel z”l

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It is with great sadness that Matzav.com reports the passing of Rabbi Hertz Frankel z”l. He was 89 years old.

Rabbi Frankel most famously served for more than 60 years as the English principal of the Satmar schools in Williamsburg.

The Satmar Rebbe, Rav Yoel Teitelbaum, zt”l, needed a principal of English studies for the burgeoning Satmar school system. But instead of choosing someone within the ranks of Satmar, he chose an outsider — a non-Chassidic, clean-shaven, unmarried young man…an Agudaist, Rav Hertz Frankel. This stranger in a strange land rose to become the virtual secretary of state of Satmar.

Rabbi Frankel was a treasure trove of insights and stories about his six-decade career in Satmar. He ended up writing The Satmar Rebbe and His English Principal,  a fascinating memoir filled with intriguing stories about his unique relationship with the Rebbe and the powerful Torah movement that impacted American Jewish life in ways that are still being felt today.

From secret summit meetings with gedolei Yisrael to halt mandatory autopsies in Eretz Yisrael, to White House parlays with President Jimmy Carter, Rabbi Frankel saw how the Satmar Rebbe’s passion and influence extended beyond the realms of Satmar.

Rabbi Frankel merited to raise an outstanding Torah family, including his son, Rabbi Menashe Frankel, noted askan and baal chesed in the Lakewood community.

The levayah will be held at 9:30 a.m. on Sunday morning at Bais Mordechai, located at 1455 Heathwood Ave in Lakewood, NJ. The aron will then be flown to Eretz Yisroel for kevurah on Har Hamenuchos in Yerushalayim.

Yehi zichro boruch.

{Matzav.com}


5 COMMENTS

    • Yes, in the book written by the deceased he discusses it. How the late Rebbe instructed him to have a secular studies department on a higher level than people today imagine.

  1. “an outsider — a non-Chassidic, clean-shaven, unmarried young man…an Agudaist, Rav Hertz Frankel.”

    The niftar was Hasidic actually. The fact that he went to Torah Vodaas rather than some brand name Hasidic institution doesn’t make him non-Hasidic.

  2. Enough with the labeling and stereotyping already, for heaven’s sake!

    He was an articulate representative for the Satmar Rebbe, so who cares?

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