Coalition for Jewish Values, representing over 2,500 traditional, Orthodox rabbis, joins the Jewish world in deeply mourning the passing of Rav Gershon Edelstein OBM, the Dean of the Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak, Israel. Rabbi Edelstein was the leader of the Hareidi community in Israel and abroad. He was a monumental Torah scholar, embodied Torah values in the highest sense and a leader whose advice and blessing were sought by people throughout the world.

His passing leaves an irreplaceable void in the Jewish world, and the world is poorer and smaller because this giant is no longer among us.

May the Almighty comfort the Jewish People in their time of need.