Nisson Wolpin was an Orthodox rabbi and (1932-2017), [1] [2] renowned for being the editor of The Jewish Observer. [3] [1] He also served as the learning director of Camp Munk for many summers. [4]
Nisson Wolpin was an Orthodox rabbi and (1932-2017), [1] [2] renowned for being the editor of The Jewish Observer. [3] [1] He also served as the learning director of Camp Munk for many summers. [4]
Rabbi Wolpin was born in 1932 [2] in Seattle, Washington to Bentzion and Kaila Wolpin. His parents, immigrants from Europe, lost 13 of their 15 children to childhood diseases prior to their coming to the United States. [5]
During his formative years, Seattle didn't have any fit Jewish schools for him to attend, and he therefore had no other option other than attending a local public school. [4] Like his three [5] brothers, he attended a Talmud Torah in the afternoon. At age 15 he was sent to Yeshiva Torah Vodaath. [2] [6]
Wolpin was one of "a small cadre of talmidim" selected by Gedaliah Schorr to be students at a Los Angeles-based yeshiva founded in 1952 by Simcha Wasserman. [7]
During his adult years as a married man, Rabbi Wolpin served as a rebbi (teacher of Torah) at Yeshiva Ohr Yisrael in Queens, an elementary yeshiva for Orthodox Jewish boys. In 1970, he was offered the position of editor of The Jewish Observer , a newspaper published by Agudath Israel of America. [8] Before accepting the position, he approached Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetzky, who told him: "Until now you were a mechanech (educator) of children. From now on you will be a mechanech for adults." [4] For several years he had a role in Olomeinu , the children's periodical, as well. [5] [9]
In 2010, Rabbi Wolpin and his wife moved to Israel, [2] where he learned in a kollel. [4]
On April 24, 2017, he died in Jerusalem, survived by his wife, their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. One obituary referred to him as "father of the flourishing chareidi press in the English language today." [10]
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