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  Yitzchok Hutner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rabbi Yitzchok Hutner the Rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin at a special Purim celebration in his yeshiva.
Rabbi Hutner quickly slapped him and said, "You read that in (Rabbi) Heschel!" The interesting point is that Rabbi Hutner too, had to have read it in Heschel as well to have recognized the source.
Rabbi Hutner appointed the Yeshiva University and Slabodka yeshiva educated Rabbi Avigdor Miller as the Mashgiach (spiritual mentor and supervisor) of the yeshiva.
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 Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin (also known as Mesivta Rabbi Chaim Berlin) (MYRCB) or as Chaim Berlin, is a major Orthodox Judaism all-male yeshiva located in Brooklyn, New York.
It was named for Rabbi Chaim Berlin, the chief rabbi of Moscow who had moved to Jerusalem and was one of its leading rabbis at the time of his passing.
Rabbi Hutner was succeeded by his disciple Rabbi Ahron Schechter, leading the New York branch of the Yeshiva.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yeshiva_Rabbi_Chaim_Berlin   (260 words)

  
 Joseph Soloveitchik
Rabbi Soloveitchik inherited his father's, Rabbi Moses (Moshe), position as head of the RIETS rabbinical school at Yeshiva University in 1941.
Rabbi Joseph Ber Soloveitchik was educated in the traditional manner at a Talmud Torah, an elementary yeshiva,and by private tutors as his parents realized his great mental powers.
Rabbi Soloveitchik refused to sign it outright, miantaining that there were areas, particularly relating to problems that threaten all of Judaism, that required co-operation regardless of affiliation.
www.starrepublic.org /encyclopedia/wikipedia/j/jo/joseph_soloveitchik.html   (1164 words)

  
 Yeshiva - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Yeshiva   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
A yeshiva (Hebrew, pl. yeshivos or yeshivot) is an institution for Torah study and the study of Talmud.
Organised Torah study was revolutionised by Rabbi Chaim Volozhin, a disciple of the Vilna Gaon (an influential 18th century leader of Orthodox Judaism).
The dual curriculum was pioneered by the Manhattan Talmudical Academy of Yeshiva University in 1916.
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 Rosh yeshiva   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
A Rosh yeshiva (Hebrew language:) (plural in Hebrew: Roshei yeshiva, but also referred to in the English form as Rosh yeshivas) is a rabbi who is the academic head, or rosh, of a yeshiva, a college of higher Talmudic study.
Yeshivas play a central role in the life of Orthodox Judaism and Ultra Orthodox Judaism so the position of Rosh yeshiva is the critical central pillar of leadership upon which the entire institution and system depends.
Rabbi Chaim was the chief disciple of the famed Elijah ben Solomon (1720 - 1797) known as the Vilna Gaon.
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 Yitzchok Hutner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Rabbi Yitzchok (Isaac) Hutner (1906 - 1980) was born in Warsaw, Poland, to a family with both Ger hasidim and mitnagdim in their origins.
Rabbi Hutner appointed the Yeshiva University and Slabodka educated Rabbi Avigdor Miller as the Mashgiach (spiritual mentor and supervisor) of the yeshiva.
Ironically, Rabbi Hutner became a fierce critic of Lubavitch and the idolization of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson.
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 baal teshuvah   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, leader of the Chabad (Also known as Lubavitch) Hasidic Judaism movement, was responsible for turning Chabad's stregth and activities towards outreach.
Rabbis and their families were sent to teach college students, to build day schools, and to create youth camps.
In recent years a small butgrowing number of Modern Orthodox rabbis have opined that women can take on many of the roles of a rabbi, and that some form of rabbinical-like ordination for women is possible.
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 Joseph Soloveitchik
Rabbi Joseph Ber Soloveitchik was educated in the traditional manner at a Talmud Torah, an elementary yeshiva, and by private tutors as his parents realized his great mental powers.
Soon after marriage to Tonya, he moved to Berlin in Germany where he remained for almost a decade studying at the University of Berlin obtaining a Ph.D. based on the philosophy of the great German philosopher Herman Cohen, and simultaneously maintaining a rigorous schedule of intensive Talmud study.
Rabbi Soloveitchik refused to sign it outright, maintaining that there were areas, particularly relating to problems that threaten all of Judaism that required co-operation regardless of affiliation.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Soloveitchik.html   (1222 words)

  
 CONK! Encyclopedia: Israel_Kirzner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The son of a well-known rabbi and Talmudist, Kirzner was born in London, England and came to the United States via South Africa.
Kirzner is also an ordained Haredi rabbi and Talmud scholar, and serves as the rabbi of the congregation once headed by his father in Brooklyn, New York.
He is one of the most famous disciples of Rabbi Isaac Hutner, the late dean of the Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin, where he studied for many years during the same years he obtained his academic training.
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 Read about Joseph Soloveitchik at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Joseph Soloveitchik and learn about Joseph ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
At the age of 22, he moved to Berlin in Germany where he remained for almost a decade studying at the University of Berlin, simultaneously maintaining a rigorous schedule of intensive Talmud study.
anti-Zionist Brisk Yeshiva, he was respected for his genius in Talmudic scholarship which few could challenge, yet they saw him as their wayward cousin who had departed from the family Haredi "party line".
Soloveitchik believed that Reform and Conservative rabbis did not have proper training in halakha and Jewish theology, and that due to their decisions and actions could not be considered rabbis as Orthodox Jews normally understood the term.
encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Joseph_Dov_Soloveitchik   (2864 words)

  
 Rabbi Eliezer Lederfeind — Champion of the Deaf - May 30, 2001 - OUPR - OU.ORG
Rabbi Lederfeind is currently trying to find a way to help a 12-year-old boy, born in Russia, have a bar mitzvah when he turns 13 next year.
Rabbi Lederfeind says that there is validity to both points of view and that each family must make a personal decision based on its particular situation.
Rabbi Lederfeind, a champion of the deaf, has dedicated his life to assisting and bettering the lives of the deaf.
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Grandson of the renowned rabbinical scholar Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik, grandson as well as name-sake, of his great grand-father Rabbi Yoshe Ber Soloveitchik known for his work as the Bais HaLevi on Talmud and great-great-grandson of Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin (The Netziv).
Rabbi Joseph Ber Soloveitchik was born on February 27, 1903 in Pruzhan (which is now part of Belarus), Poland.
In 1956 many Yeshiva leaders, and two Modern Orthodox rabbis from his own Yeshiva University signed and issued a proclamation forbidding any rabbinical alumni of their yeshivot from joining with Reform Judaism and Conservative Judaism rabbis in professional organizations.
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 Rabbi Chaim Berlin was born 1832   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Rabbi Chaim Berlin died in 1912, in Jerusalem.
The Yeshiva of Volozhin was started in 1803 and become the most important Russian Yeshiva.
During the Yeshiva hundred years of existence its influence on the cultural life of Russian Jewry was unusually strong.
www.pseudology.org /evrei/Irving_Berlin8_Rabby.htm   (399 words)

  
 Marvin Schick: January 1999
He was active in Hapoel Hamizrachi and Yeshiva College, commitments which were maintained in one fashion or another throughout his professional career in Jewish education, at first at the Talmud Torah established by Rabbi Leo Jung at the Jewish Center in Manhattan where he served as principal, and also Manhattan Day School.
Rabbi Mendlowitz’s great contribution was in teaching that meaningful Torah education could be provided in all communities and instilling in talented young men a lifelong commitment to chinuch.
Emphatically, the union between the Yeshiva deans and laymen was not an arrangement dictated by convenience or necessity.
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 MR.TALBERT CLASS 1958-1959
Standing next to Rabbi Zucker was a tall, lean, nattily dressed Negro man. Zucker and the Negro man stood just inside the doorway; a long silent pause ensued; there was no movement, no sound, as if we were all afraid to exhale.
As if on queue, Rabbi Zucker nodded and slowly walked out, leaving us alone with this strange Negro man. All thirty Yeshiva Bochers shifted in their old creaky bench seats at their old wooden desks as an uneasy silence wafted over the room, waiting to hear what Mr.
It was not unusual for a Yeshiva to have English on Sundays since there was no English on Fridays, the day before the Sabbath, when students were encouraged to go home after morning Hebrew studies to do family chores to prepare for the Sabbath which began at sundown on Friday.
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 The Jewish Week
The son of a prominent rabbi, Silverman dropped out of Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin in Midwood at 14, living at various intervals with a girlfriend, a group of other kids--many from chasidic families, he claims--and even on the street.
Rabbi Shapiro denies the increase is the result of simple demographics in a community that doubles every 13 years.
Although Rabbi Teitelbaum praises the "phenomenal success of today's yeshiva movement" in educating thousands of tomorrow's leaders, he admits "the curriculum has to be made more interesting for these types of boys who cannot take the hard, tough type of curriculum these schools have.
www.shemayisrael.co.il /orgs/rejew/j-week.htm   (3178 words)

  
 Jewish Journal Archives
From the synagogue, Rabbi Gershom Sizomu, together with another local leader, J J Keki and a large group of the Abayudaya, came forth to meet Rabbi Gorin, carrying their "loaned" Torah and singing religious melodies in Luganda.
Conducted by Rabbi Andy Sacks of Israel, who is an experienced "mohel", the ritual involved the symbolic drawing of a drop of blood from the penis.
The rabbis, with their backs to the river, shouted the blessings, which family-by-family and blessing-by-blessing was repeated by the women.
www.jewishjournal.org /archives/archiveMarch29_02.htm   (14347 words)

  
 Judah Loew ben Bezalel - Art History Online Reference and Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Maharal was born in Prague to Rabbi Betzalel (Loew), whose family originated from the German town of Worms.
Rabbi Hutner in turn also maintained that Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808-1888) (Germany, 19th century) must also have been influenced by the Maharal's ideas basing his seemingly rationalistic Weltanschauung on the more abstract and abstruse teachings of the hard-to-understand Jewish Kabbalah.
Rabbi Judah Loew was not a champion of the open study of Kabbalah as such, and none of his works are in any way openly devoted to it.
www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Maharal   (1405 words)

  
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Headed by Rabbi Pinchas Stolper, himself a noted charismatic speaker and writer, the movement also developed its in-house literature geared to the newly observant mainly written by Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan.
Chief rabbi of the British Mandate of Palestine and also regarded symbolically by the latter State of Israel as its first chief rabbi as well.
The late Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin in Brooklyn.
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 Dei'ah veDibur - Information & Insight - NEWS
The organization's Rabbi Aharon Kotler Memorial Award will be presented to Elly Kleinman, president and CEO of the Americare Companies, a group of companies that are major providers of home health and rehabilitation services throughout 14 counties in New York State.
One of Rabbi Sherer's most trusted confidants, Rabbi Besser worked closely with the organization's late president for more than 50 years, devoting his spiritual and physical energies to the cause of Agudath Israel.
Rabbi Besser was born in Poland, where he attended the Radomsker Yeshiva Keter Torah.
chareidi.shemayisrael.com /archives5761/behar/adinner.htm   (1108 words)

  
 Mail-Jewish Volume 9 Number 49
Mesivta Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin, 1605 Coney Island Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11230)4715; 1585 Coney Island Ave., (718) 377)0777 4.
For Rabbi Yosef this was the practical implementation of his long-held halachic position on peace.
Rabbi Yosef stressed at the time that his halachic analysis was `hypothetical'.
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 JewishPress.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
A friend of mine, Rabbi B., a student in the Telz Yeshiva from 1932 until 1939, still recalls a key point of the talk Rav Teitz gave in Telz in 1935 — some seventy years after he first heard the words spoken.
In April 1935, at a meeting called for the new rabbi to present his plans, people were shocked when he announced, “I must leave Elizabeth.” They expected an outline for the future, not a resignation speech.
He pointed out many times that it was crucial for a rabbi in America to speak the language of the country in order to communicate with the younger generation.
www.thejewishpress.com /news_article_print.asp?article=4497   (2258 words)

  
 Baal teshuva   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, leader of the Chabad Lubavitch branch of Hasidic Judaism was responsible for turning Chabad's strength and activities towards outreach.
Founder and Rosh Yeshiva of NIRC Yeshiva Ner Yisrael: Ner Israel Rabbinical College, Baltimore, Maryland.
Yeshiva Tiferes Bachurim Rabbinical College of America, Morristown, NJ Yeshiva Ohr Somayach of Monsey,Upstate New York.
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 wikien.info: Main_Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Rabbi David Weiss Halivni is scholar of Talmud and a Holocaust survivor originally of Sighet, Hungary.
Rabbi Halivni also serves as Littauer Professor of Talmud and Classical Rabbinics in the Department of Religion at Columbia University.
A close friend of Rabbi Saul Lieberman, he studied with him for many years at the Jewish Theological Seminary of Conservative Judaism.
www.hostingciamca.com /index.php?title=David_Weiss_Halivni   (479 words)

  
 The Jewish Week   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Talbert’s year at Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin was only his second teaching post, but the experience was the most significant of his career.
Rabbi Gottesman gently explained that the beauty of a fulfilled Jewish life was as much about the desire and sincerity of your adherence to the law as the adherence itself.
Rabbi Gottesman easily could have made his point with allusions to my youth, or a forgiving Hashem, or even just “it will be all right.” And they might have consoled me somewhat.
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 Avodah V4 #9   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
RYB SoloveitchikZ'l was recognized by Rav Chaim Brisker, Rav Kook and the Dvar Avraham as a gadol.
But the example you raise -- regarding the learning of Russian in yeshiva -- may certainly be categorized as a halakhic issue (just as the general question of secular studies is often evaluated in terms of the halakhic concerns of bittul Torah and protection from harmful influences).
Rav Michel Shurkin's father was a close talmid of the Chofetz Chaim and was one of those privileged to be involved in his tahara.
www.aishdas.org /avodah/vol04/v04n009.shtml   (3055 words)

  
 Rick Porrello's AmericanMafia.com - this just in ... Mob News and Features
The yeshiva got a fee for its services, and Chickara and Rametta were able to claim a tax deduction for charitable giving, according to a talk secretly recorded Dec 14, 1999, between Chickara and an informant named Jeffery Pokross.
The Mesivta Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin on Coney Island was allegedly used to launder brokers' bribes.
In describing how he laundered cash as part of a Mafia stock fraud scheme, a former Ranch 1 executive said he used a religious school as the conduit and netted a hefty tax break in the process.
www.americanmafia.com /News/4-24-01_Stox_Fraud_Wont_Fly.html   (894 words)

  
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Hanna Ramras was born in pre-war Pressburg (Bratislava), Czechoslovakia in 1929 to Ezriel and Sidonia Stern.
Then the influence of Europe was still strong: roshei yeshiva trained their students to go out to work in the community; students were expected to think for themselves and do for others; kollel had a time limit; Torah study was an important part of life after yeshiva.
The first part of the daily schedule is similar to that of many yeshivas: Shacharis at 7:30 followed by the study of halacha, breakfast, first seder, a lunch break, Mincha and second seder, and supper at 7:15 p.m.
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