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Top Haredi rabbi Edelstein won’t attend tonight’s funeral for Rabbi Scheiner
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Rabbi Gershon Edelstein, head of the Ponovitz Yeshiva seen at his home after lightning the candles on the fourth night of Hanukkah, in Bnei Brak, December 5, 2018. (Aharon Krohn/Flash90)
Top ultra-Orthodox rabbi Gershon Edelstein’s associates say he will not attend tonight’s Jerusalem funeral of Rabbi Yitzhok Scheiner, following criticism of today’s earlier mass funeral of another senior rabbi.
Even though he was close to Scheiner and is related to him, Edelstein will eulogize him from his home in Bnei Brak via telephone.
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