A scion of the Hasidic dynasty of Chernobyl , Twersky succeeded his father Meshullam Zalman Twersky as the Talner Rebbe of Boston for the last twenty years of his life , serving as the spiritual leader of Congregation Beth David , known colloquially as the Talner Beis Medrash ( " the Talner study hall " ) , which was located in a renovated house in the Brighton neighborhood of Boston . Twersky 's lectures in the synagogue on Tuesday nights and late Saturday afternoons were known for their erudition and originality , in the tradition of elite religious Torah study , with the vocabulary and worldliness of a Harvard historian . Twersky and his wife Atarah ( née Soloveitchik ) played a prominent part in the leadership of Maimonides School . Twersky took on the role of spiritual leader for the school in 1993 , after the death of Atarah 's father Joseph B. Soloveitchik , who had founded the school in 1937 . Atarah was the long-time chair of the School Committee , until 2006 , nine years after Twersky 's death . The Twersky 's elder son Mosheh , a rabbi and lecturer at Yeshivas Toras Moshe , was murdered in the 2014 Jerusalem synagogue attack . Their other son Mayer Twersky holds the Leib Merkin Distinguished Professorial Chair in Talmud and Jewish Philosophy and is a rosh yeshiva at Yeshiva University and rabbi of the Talner Synagogue of Riverdale . Their daughter Tzipporah Rosenblatt , a lawyer , is married to Jonathan Rosenblatt , rabbi emeritus of the Riverdale Jewish Center in New York City . Atarah resides in Riverdale
2014 Jerusalem synagogue attack
2014 Jerusalem synagogue attack
Isadore Twersky