“We’re Here for a Reason”

From the Life of Rabbi Binyamin Moshe Dinovitz, zt”l

If anyone in our community epitomizes old-school Baltimore, it has to be Rabbi Binyamin Moshe Dinovitz, zt”l, who was born and raised and spent his entire life in the city. Born in 1920, Rabbi Dinovitz spoke only Yiddish for the first five years of his life. That’s what his immigrant parents spoke, of course, and so did all the children on the streets of East Baltimore. It was only when he started school that he learned the “foreign language,” English.

He had a normal upbringing for the times, but