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The yeshiva was founded in 1953 at the behest of Rabbi Aaron Kotler, the Rosh Yeshiva of Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood, New Jersey. Rabbis Shmuel Kamenetzky and Dov Schwartzman first headed the yeshiva. The yeshiva's first location was at Thirtieth and Berks Streets in the Strawberry Mansion neighborhood of Philadelphia. [2]
Jacob Shmuel Boteach [3] (born November 19, 1966), [4] known as Shmuley Boteach, is an American rabbi, author, and media host.. He is the author of 31 books, including the best-seller Kosher Sex: A Recipe for Passion and Intimacy (1999) and Kosher Jesus (2012).
Rabbi Sholom Shachne of Prohobisht (Hebrew: שלום שכנא מפראהביטש, romanized: Shalom Shachna m'Prhobisht), also known as Rabbi Sholom the Great (Yiddish: דער גרויסער רבי שלום, romanized: Der Groyser Rebbe Shalom) (1769 – 1802) [1] was a Ukrainian rabbi and father of Rabbi Yisroel Friedman of Ruzhin.
The two friends and Rabbi Zev Gold of the local Congregation Beth Jacob Anshe Sholom [1] [2] formed a board and established the yeshiva on Keap Street in Williamsburg as an elementary school. The yeshiva later moved to a new building at 206 Wilson Street and remained there until 1967, while the elementary school remained at 206 Wilson St. until ...
Sholom Shuchat (Hebrew: שלום דוב בער שוחאט) is a convicted felon, an American rabbi, rosh kollel, and dayan. In June 2014, Shuchat pleaded guilty to one count of traveling in interstate commerce to commit an act of violence as part of the New York divorce coercion gang .
Rabbi Yisroel Friedman was a direct descendant through the male line of Rabbi Dov Ber, the Maggid of Mezritch (1704-1772), the main disciple of the Baal Shem Tov. [1] [2] Friedman's father, Rabbi Sholom Shachne of Prohobisht (1769-1802), died when he was six years old. He had an older brother, Avrohom (1787–1812), who became Rebbe of their ...
The Shul was founded by Rabbi Sholom Lipskar, [2] who was sent in 1969 as an emissary of the Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneersohn, to Miami Beach. [3]After finding no active Jewish community in the Surfside area, Lipskar initially met in hotel rooms before moving to a storefront.
Rabbi Yitzchak Meir's son, Rabbi Yechezkel Shraga Landau, also served as a rabbi, for a time in Nyzhni Vorota as well as in Yaasin and Nitra, from 1929. [2] While both Rabbi Shalom Noach and Rabbi Yitzchak Meir were killed in the Holocaust , Rabbi Yechezkel Shraga Landau was not, and emigrated to the United States after World War II, settling ...