Samuel Turk

Samuel A. Turk (1917–2009) was an American-born pulpit rabbi who wrote columns for decades in The Jewish Press.

[1] He studied at Yeshiva Torah Vodaath under Rabbi Shlomo Heiman and had a Bachelors degree from City College, a Masters from NYU, and a PhD from Yeshiva University.

Turk was the first president and a co-founder of the right-wing[2][3][4][5] Igud HaRabbonim (Rabbinical Alliance of America).

[1] He was one of the rabbis who marched in Washington, DC in 1943 to try to save the Jews of Europe who were being murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust.

[6] He wrote approximately 1,500 columns for the Jewish Press and in 1973 he published a book of chidushei torah called Kerem Zvi.