Agudath Israel of America, welcomed a new rule issued by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) that will strengthen the ability of federal employees to take compensatory time off for religious observances. President Trump highlighted the development at the White House event honoring the National Day of Prayer.

The door slammed hard behind the distancing figure. Gavriel strode vigorously, trying to get as far from his home as soon and as fast as he could. A cab driver stopped for him on the main road, intuiting through his professional eye that the stranger needed a quick trip.

These are the recollections of HaRav Yechiel Michel Shclesinger, founder of the yeshiva Kol Torah in Yerushalayim, of HaRav Avrohom Elya Kaplan zt'l, head of the Berlin Rabbinerseminar and a talmid of Slobodke yeshiva, under whom he had learned. This essay was originally published in Haderech, on the 11th Iyar 5704, for HaRav Kaplan's twentieth yahrtzeit.