Yeshiva of Far Rockaway is a yeshiva located at 802 Hicksville Road, Far Rockaway, Queens in New York City. It comprises a high school, beis medrash, and Kollel. The school was founded by the current rosh yeshiva, Rabbi Yechiel Yitzchok Perr, and by the late Rabbi Nachman Bulman. It has intensive Talmudic studies, and features the rosh yeshiva's musar lectures in the Novardok tradition. The yeshiva also has a kollel, Kollel Ner Rochel Leah, where Talmudic studies are continued after marriage.
Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin or Yeshivas Rabbeinu Chaim Berlin is an American Haredi Lithuanian-type boys' and men's yeshiva in Brooklyn, New York.
Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz was a leader of American Orthodoxy and founder of key institutions such as Torah U'Mesorah, an outreach and educational organization. He is also known for having taken the reins in 1921 and building Yeshiva Torah Vodaas, a major early day Brooklyn-based Yeshiva. His policies were often informed by Torah im Derech Eretz. In the words of Rabbi Moshe Feinstein: "Were it not for him, there would be no Torah study and no Fear of Heaven at all in America."
Bobov is a Hasidic community within Haredi Judaism, originating in Bobowa, Galicia, in southern Poland, and now headquartered in the neighborhood of Borough Park, in Brooklyn, New York.
Rabbi Dovid Harris is an Orthodox rabbi who along with Rabbi Akiva Grunblatt, serves as Rosh Hayeshiva (deans) at the Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yisrael Meir HaKohen. He is a prominent figure in the yeshiva world and speaks annually at the Torah Umesorah - National Society for Hebrew Day Schools convention. He also serves on the Rabbinic advisory committee of Torah Umesorah.
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, (RIETS) founded in 1896, is the rabbinical seminary of Yeshiva University. It is located along Amsterdam Avenue in New York City, in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan.
Tomchei Tmimim is the central Yeshiva of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement. Founded in 1897 in the town of Lubavitch by Rabbi Sholom Dovber Schneersohn, it is now a worldwide network of institutions of advanced Torah study, the United Lubavitcher Yeshivoth.
Men's colleges in the United States are primarily those categorized as being undergraduate, bachelor's degree-granting single-sex institutions that admit only men. Through much of United States history male only undergraduate higher education was the norm, or a regular feature up to the 1960s. The few remaining well-known men's colleges are traditional independent liberal arts colleges, though at present the majority are institutions of learning for those preparing for religious vocations.
Beth Hatalmud Rabbinical College, also known as Bais Hatalmud, is a small and selective Rabbinical college located in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, New York.
The Malochim or Malukhim is a small Hasidic group with strong Monsey and Williamsburg connections. It adheres to the Chabad school of Hasidic thought which emphasizes in-depth Torah study, uses the Chabad nusach of prayer, and focuses on the study of Hasidic mysticism.
Yeshiva Gedola of Carteret informally, "YGOC", also called Yeshiva Tiferes Yehuda Aryeh, is a yeshiva and non-profit organization located in Carteret in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States.
Mesivta is an Orthodox Jewish yeshiva secondary school for boys. The term is commonly used in the United States to describe a yeshiva that emphasizes Talmudic studies for boys in grades 9 through 11 or 12; alternately, it refers to the religious studies track in a yeshiva high school that offers both religious and secular studies.
Rambam Mesivta is a private Jewish High School in Lawrence, NY. Rambam Mesivta was founded in 1991 by a group of individuals who saw the need for an all boys' Mesivta program that offers classes in Religious Jewish Studies and College Preparatory studies. Students attend from Queens, Brooklyn, Great Neck, the Five Towns, Plainview, West Hempstead, and Greater Long Island.
Yeshivas Ohr Hachaim is a Haredi yeshiva located in Kew Garden Hills, Queens, New York City. The yeshiva also has a kollel, and operates in conjunction with its high school Mesivta Yesodei Yeshurun which is located next door to Yeshivas Ohr Hachaim. The current Rosh Yeshiva is Rabbi Doniel Lander.
Yeshiva Gedolah of Cliffwood is an Orthodox Jewish yeshiva in Cliffwood, New Jersey. Founded in 2004, it offers high school, beis medrash, and kollel programs. Located in Cliffwood, it has a Keyport mailing address.
Rav Teitz Mesivta Academy, commonly known as RTMA or JEC High School, is a Yeshiva high school located in Elizabeth, New Jersey and a branch of the Jewish Educational Center. Founded in 1955 by Rabbi Pinchas Mordechai Teitz, RTMA adheres to the tenets and practices of Orthodox Judaism. It is one of the country's earliest and leading Modern Orthodox Yeshiva high schools. RTMA's dual curriculum offers courses in Torah studies, as well as college preparatory academics. Most of its students reside in the Orthodox Jewish communities of New Jersey and New York.
Yeshiva Meor Hatalmud is a Yeshiva in New York City It is headed by Moshe Weiss.
Mesivta Ateres Yaakov is a Modern Orthodox, all-male high school in Lawrence, New York. Founded in 1987 as a part of the Yeshiva of South Shore, the Mesivta became both financially and administratively independent in 2003. By 2010, a rapidly expanding student body saw the Mesivta move to a 27,000-square-foot (2,500 m2) campus in Lawrence, New York, where it currently operates.
Veretzky is the name two a Rabbinic dynasties and communities, both originating in Nyzhni Vorota, Ukraine, near the borders with Hungary and Slovakia. While the dynasty of the Landau family reestablished its court in the United States, the dynasty of the Eichenstein-Labin family lives in Israel.
