Rabbi Aharon Leib Shteinman, the spiritual leader of the non-Hassidic Ashkenazi Haredi community, died today at the age of 104. Doctors in Mayanei Hayeshua Medical Center in Bnei Brak reported this morning Shteinman suffered a heart attack. He was admitted to the hospital in January for shortness of breath and fever. Shteinman was the long-time head of the Ponevezh Yeshiva and the head of the Degel HaTorah party, a part of United Torah Judaism. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to attend his funeral, to be held at 12 p.m. in Bnei Brak. Read more Read the obituary
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