Sanhedrin in Tiberias

[Background: There is a current attempt to reestablish the Sanhedrin, the great court that carries many legislative and judicial powers in the Jewish religion.]

"I remember how [R. Joseph B Soloveitchik] concluded his eulogy for his uncle the Gri"z [R. Yitzhak Soloveitchik, the "Brisker Rav"] and said (in his very dramatic style of presentation) that we are living in an era of much ziyuf ha-Torah ["falsification of the Torah"], both external [of the religious community] and internal."
- R. Hershel Schachter, Nefesh Ha-Rav, p. 33.

"I heard that [R. Joseph B Soloveitchik] mentioned at that point how his uncle did not participate in controversy and demonstrations when there was an attempt to open mixed[-gender] swimming pools in Jerusalem that include violations of Shabbos, because those are specific sins. Only when they wanted to erect a Sanhedrin in the Heikhal Shlomo building -- on this he loudly protested in order to end the matter, because he saw in it a much greater matter; namely, ziyuf ha-Torah."
- R. Hershel Schachter, Be-Ikvei Ha-Tzon, p. 23 n. 4