At a modest memorial ceremony held Sunday, 25 Nisan, a
tombstone commemorating the esteemed, beloved and dynamic
former president of American Agudas Yisroel, Rabbi Moshe
Sherer, who was niftar 11 months ago, was unveiled in
the Jewish Cemetery of New York. His monumental achievements
on behalf of the chareidi community of the United States, and
his dedicated and resolute leadership of Agudas Yisroel which
he headed for more than 50 years, are unforgettable.
Hundreds of family members and acquaintances assembled at the
cemetery for the event. Among them were well-known rabbonim,
roshei yeshiva, admorim as well as many of American
Agudas Yisroel's leaders and activists. The Chief Rabbi of
Israel, Yisroel Meir Lau, who was in New York at the time,
was also present.
Words of appreciation and eulogy were delivered at the brief
ceremony by the Admor of Novominsk, as well as by Rav Eliezer
Horowitz, the rav of the shul in which R' Moshe
davened on a steady basis, and by Rabbi Shimshon
Sherer, R' Moshe's son.
All of the speakers stressed the tremendous void created in
the leadership of American chareidi Jewry due to the painful
and saddening petirah of Rabbi Sherer, noting that the
loss is irreplaceable. By the same token, they pointed to his
many activities on behalf of the Torah and the yeshiva world,
and to the many frameworks he established, developed and
encouraged for the sake of the chareidi community of America.
They expressed the hope that these enterprises will continue
to flourish and will be everlasting and befitting memorials
to his illustrious name.
