He arrived in New York on the second day of Rosh Hashanah, 1946, aboard the Vulcania. He settled in
Williamsburg with a small group of survivors and founded Congregation Yetev Lev. In 1951 he was
appointed President of the anti-Zionist Eidah HaChareidis of Jerusalem. In 1955 he founded the Central
Rabbinical Congress — which today still endorses this organization.