Ephraim Fishel Hershkowitz (Hebrew: אפרים פישל הערשקאוויטש) (2 October 1922[1] – 27 May 2017), the Haleiner Rav,[1] was an American Hasidic rabbi, the senior Klausenburger dayan in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York.
[3][4] Ephraim Fishel was born on Yom Kippur 1922 (10 Tishrei 5683) in the city of Mukačevo, Czechoslovakia (present-day Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine).
When he was older, Ephraim Fishel would accompany them to visit the Spinka Rebbe, Grand Rabbi Isaac Weiss (1875–1944) on every Yom Tov.
[1] Rabbi Hershkowitz played an active role in judging cases of agunahs after the September 11 attacks.
[5][6][7] He was one of the leading American rabbis honored at the Eleventh Annual Siyum HaShas in Madison Square Garden in 2005, where he read the beginning of Masekhet Berakhot.