Nisson Wolpin


Nisson Wolpin was an Orthodox rabbi and the editor of The Jewish Observer.
For "many summers" he "he served as learning director" at Camp Munk.
In 2010 he and his wife moved to Israel, where he learned in a Kollel.

Education

His 1932 birth in Seattle, Washington to Bentzion and Kaila Wolpin came at a time and place where there was no other option other than attending a local public school Like his three brothers, in the afternoon he attended a Talmud Torah. At age 15 he was sent to Yeshiva Torah Vodaas.
Wolpin was one of "a small cadre of talmidim" selected by Gedaliah Schorr to be students at a Los Angeles-based yeshiva founded in 1952 by Simcha Wasserman.

The Jewish Observer

Wolpin was the editor of The Jewish Observer, published by Agudas Yisroel of America. When he was offered the position in 1970, he was married, and had been a rebbe at
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel in Queens for several years. He asked Yaakov Kamenetzky, who told him: "Until now you were a mechanech of children. From now on you will be a mechanech for adults."

Olomeinu

For several years he had a role in Olomeinu, the children's periodical.

End of life

His wife survived him, as did their children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren. This contrasts with the situation from Wolpin's parents: prior to their coming to the United States, 13 of their 15 children died of childhood diseases.
One obituary referred to him as "father of the flourishing chareidi press in the English language today."