[1] Rafael G. Grossman grew up in Lakewood, New Jersey, and was a student of Rabbi Yisroel Zev Gustman.
[1] He also helped found a Kollel in Fort Lee, NJ[2] Over the course of his career, Grossman held leadership roles at some of the nation's most respected Jewish organizations.
His weekly column Thinking Aloud which was printed in The Jewish Press and other periodicals also appeared online.
Grossman's father, upon coming from Poland in the 1940s, for a while was the rabbi of a synagogue in Boro Park; later the family moved to New Jersey.
In a review, Rabbi Hillel Goldberg[4] wrote that (in particular subsequently) "he ... helped many parents" and quoted from the book, which is subtitled "A father’s journey through loss" that "No two people can feel the same way.