Nathan Lewin

Thirty-two years ago, on 6 Nissan 5739, American Jewry lost a leader and teacher who was the model of the best that American Orthodoxy could produce. Rav Eliyahu Moshe ben Reb Yitzchok Dov Gordon was American-born and raised in the 1920s in Jamaica, Queens. His father was the founder of the Yeshiva of Central Queens and a prominent lay leader of the American Jewish community during the period following the First World War. Young Eliyahu Moshe attended Yeshiva Rabbeinu Yaakov Yosef, fondly known as RJJ, the mother of the American yeshivos, and then the Yeshiva of New Haven, Connecticut, under the renowned talmid chochom and rosh yeshiva, Rav Yehuda Levenberg. Eliyahu Moshe spent almost six years in New Haven developing a close relationship with Rav Levenberg.