Upon his return to New York, Rabbi Alperstein was delighted to learn that his colleagues Rabbis Moshe Matlin and Yehuda David Bernstein had opened a Lithuanian-style yeshiva named in honour of the distinguished Rabbi Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor of Kovno.
Regina Spektor | Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary | Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor | Yosef Yitzchak Jacobson | Yitzchak Meir Helfgot | Yitzchak Isaac of Zidichov | Yaakov Yitzchak of Lublin | Chaim Yitzchak Bloch Hacohen |
He studied in the Łomża Kollel under the renowned Gaon Rabbi Aaron Yosef Bakst, and received semicha at the age of 23 from Rabbi Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor.