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In the more than five decades that he was involved in Agudath Israel of America, rising from a member of their youth group to the Executive Vice President
Veteran askanim Rabbi Shia Markowitz and Rabbi Shmuel Bloom join forces for shemittah  Before Shia Markowitz, a decades-long communal activist whose stamp is on some of the most important communal initiatives in recent years, took over the international shemittah umbrella, he admits that he didn’t have much emotional connection to Eretz Yisrael. Today, joining forces with former Agudah executive Rabbi Shmuel Bloom, the two American askanim are working tirelessly so that the Holy Land can have its rest Reb Shia Markowitz might just be the most famous askan you never heard of. Although heâ...