What type of a scholar was the rabbi who asked Rabbi Dovid Povarsky to join the previous two heads of the institute?
Dovid Povarsky Rabbi Dovid Povarsky (Hebrew: יהושע דוד פוברסקי‎ "Yehoshua Dovid Povarsky"; 1902–1999) is known for his erudite Talmudic lectures and his deanship as Rosh Yeshiva of Ponevezh Yeshiva. He was asked by Rabbi Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman to join the previous two heads of the institute, Rabbi Elazar Menachem Shach and Rabbi Shmuel Rozovsky to create a triumvirate in leading the Yeshiva.
Jonathan Rosenbaum (scholar) Jonathan Rosenbaum (born 1947) is an American scholar, college administrator and rabbi; president of Gratz College. from 1998 to 2009; president emeritus of Gratz College and a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, since 2009. He is a specialist in Biblical history, the paleography and epigraphy of ancient Semitic languages, and American Jewish history.