Relatives
Rabbi Mendelson's son Harry and his descendants reverted to the original family surname of Morein, though other family members continued to use Mendelson. Harry Morein was a founder of the Young Israel of Newark, and an early advocate to change New Jersey's Sunday blue laws, forbidding commerce on Sunday.
Today, he has many descendants involved in communal life at the national and local levels, including kashruth administration at the Orthodox Union, and the teaching faculty of Yeshiva University's Manhattan Talmudical Academy High School and cantorial leadership.
A cousin by marriage, Rabbi Moshe Schneider, followed a path set by Rabbi Mendelson. At the start of World War II, Rabbi Schneider moved his Yeshiva, Toras Emes, to London. Known as Schneider's Yeshiva, it was the only Yeshiva in London of the classic Lithuanian mold.
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