https://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/interviews-and-profiles/americas-forgotten-posek/2013/03/24/
He was the Gadol haDor in the United States prior to Rav Moshe Feinstein zt”l. And, unfortunately, his rulings and his seforim have, by and large, been completely forgotten.
Walk into any shul or Seforim store and you will be hard-pressed to find a sefer written by Rav Yoseph Eliyahu Henkin zt”l. Open up a contemporary Halachic work and you will rarely find a ruling quoted in his name.
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Often imitated nowadays, but there's nothing like the original. For litvaks.
The Ezras Torah lunch means as a practical matter Rav Henkin has a lot of influence in everyday davening.
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