Along the Silk Road
| Profiles | By Menachem Treiber | June 20, 2018 Silk says the move away from his New York haven and the law firm he’s partnered in for two decades, to what he calls “the self-imposed exile in Washington from Monday to Thursday,” is all in the name of public service. He sees it as hashgachah (Photos: Eli Greengart) L ast October, when Reb Moyshe (Mitchell) Silk left his influential position as a senior partner in the global law firm Allen & Overy to become Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US Department of the Treasury, he arrived for his swearing-in ceremony holding an ancient tome. Instead of the Bible typically used for such ceremonies, Silk — bearded, black-hatted, and ever-connected to his chassidic roots — brought along his treasured ancient Tikkun Korim that had belonged to Rebbe Mordechai of Nadvorna, a tzaddik and miracle worker who passed away in 1894, and was from Silk’s grandfather’s ancestral town. Using the precious sefer for the cer...