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Yeshiva World News started in 2003 as a news aggregation blog by its founder Judah (Yehudah) Eckstein. It has since grown to an independent news source with freelance reporters and photographers, in addition to continuing as a news aggregator. [4] The website was redesigned in 2010, [5] and again in 2017.
The newspaper includes Israel and local community news, commentaries on the weekly Torah portion, columns, and personal ads. [ 10 ] The Jewish Press describes itself as having a politically conservative viewpoint and editorial policy, [ 11 ] and " politically incorrect long before the phrase was coined."
The Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem – today the largest Yeshiva in the world – was established in 1944, by Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel who had traveled to Palestine to obtain visas for his students; Ponevezh similarly by Rabbi Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman; and Knesses Chizkiyahu in 1949. The leading Sephardi Yeshiva, Porat Yosef, was founded in 1914 ...
Conscription of yeshiva students refers to the conscription of Orthodox yeshiva students in Israel. Since 1977, this community had been exempted from military duty or national service . In 2012, service became mandatory with a penalty of imprisonment for up to five years for draft-dodgers , although that law had never been enforced until 2024 ...
Today, the yeshiva remains the flagship of the Ger yeshivas. Under the leadership of the fifth Gerrer Rebbe, Yisrael Alter , known as the "Beis Yisrael", the Ichud Mosdos Gur (or Union of Gerrer Institutions) was established as the responsible body for funding all the educational institutions affiliated with Ger in Israel.
BMG - 7th Street Study Hall 1943. Beth Medrash Govoha is a successor institution to Yeshivas Etz Chaim, which was located in Slutzk, in what is today Belarus.That institution was led by Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer and by Rabbi Aaron Kotler, until it was forcibly closed by the Soviet Revolution of 1917, which banned all forms of Jewish studies.
Yosef Yitzchak Jacobson was born to Gershon Jacobson, a journalist, in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.His family was Chabad Hasidic.He began his studies in Oholei Torah, later moving on to Tomchei Temimim, [citation needed] a yeshiva located in Chabad's World Headquarters ().
Ponevezh Yeshiva (Lithuanian: Panevėžio ješiva), often pronounced as Ponevitch Yeshiva (Hebrew: ישיבת פוניבז׳), is a yeshiva founded in 1919 in Panevėžys (Ponevezh), Lithuania, and located today in Bnei Brak, Israel since 1944.