Toldos Yeshurun is a Non-Profit organization for Jews from the former USSR. It was founded by Rabbi Yitzchok Zilber, leader of the Russian baal teshuvah movement and often called "the father of Russian Jewry", in 2000 with the support of Rabbi Yosef Sholom Eliashiv, Rabbi Aharon Leib Shteinman, and Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky. Since the death of Rabbi Yitzchak Zilber in 2003, the organization is headed by his son, Rabbi Ben Tzion Zilber.
Jews or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and a nation, originating from the Israelites and Hebrews of historical Israel and Judah. Jewish ethnicity, nationhood, and religion are strongly interrelated, as Judaism is the traditional faith of the Jewish people, while its observance varies from strict observance to complete nonobservance.
In Judaism, a rabbi is a teacher of Torah. The basic form of the rabbi developed in the Pharisaic and Talmudic era, when learned teachers assembled to codify Judaism's written and oral laws. The first sage for whom the Mishnah uses the title of rabbi was Yohanan ben Zakkai, active in the early-to-mid first century CE. In more recent centuries, the duties of a rabbi became increasingly influenced by the duties of the Protestant Christian minister, hence the title "pulpit rabbis", and in 19th-century Germany and the United States rabbinic activities including sermons, pastoral counseling, and representing the community to the outside, all increased in importance.
Rabbi Yitzchok Yosef Zilber (1917–2004) was a Russian, later Israeli Haredi rabbi and a leader of the Russian baal teshuva movement.
The organization's goal is to provide secular Russian Jews with a Jewish education and bring them to Jewish observance.
The organization's activities take place mainly in Israel. Toldos Yeshurun also sends lecturers and printed materials to the countries of the former Soviet Union, the United States and Europe.
The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 30 December 1922 to 26 December 1991. Nominally a union of multiple national Soviet republics, its government and economy were highly centralized. The country was a one-party state, governed by the Communist Party with Moscow as its capital in its largest republic, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. Other major urban centres were Leningrad, Kiev, Minsk, Alma-Ata, and Novosibirsk.
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. It comprises the westernmost part of Eurasia.
The Kovno Kollel also known as Kollel Perushim of Kovno or Kollel Knesses Beis Yitzchok, was a kollel located in Kaunas, Lithuania. It was founded in 1877 by Rabbi Yisrael Lipkin Salanter when he was 67.
Gateways is an international organization whose self-declared mission is it to "raise Jewish consciousness."
Biala Hasidic dynasty has its roots in Poland. The Rebbes of Biala are descended from Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchak Rabinowicz, known as the Yid Hakodosh.
Har Nof is a neighborhood on a hillside on the western boundary of Jerusalem, Israel, with a population of 20,000 residents, primarily Orthodox Jews.
Yitzchak Yaacov Reines, was a Lithuanian Orthodox rabbi and the founder of the Mizrachi Religious Zionist Movement, one of the earliest movements of Religious Zionism, as well as a correspondent of Theodor Herzl.
The Center for Jewish Values was founded in 2001 by Rabbis Tzvi Muller and Paysach Freedman. The Center researches, teaches and promotes specifically the interpersonal mitzvot, Judaism's guidelines on responsibility towards one's fellow man. The Center for Jewish Values has introduced the study of the interpersonal mitzvot to thousands of people worldwide through the use of study forums, innovative materials and varied media.
Yitzchak Berkovits, also spelled Yitzchak Berkowitz, is an Orthodox Jewish rabbi, rosh kollel and posek in Jerusalem. Through his 16 years as mashgiach ruchani of Yeshivas Aish HaTorah and EYAHT College of Jewish Studies for Women, he built a reputation as a lucid orator on halakhic and philosophical topics and a caring mentor for hundreds of English-speaking, baalei teshuva young men and women. He is considered one of the spiritual leaders of the worldwide baal teshuva movement.
Orthodox Jewish outreach, often referred to as Kiruv or Keruv, is the collective work or movement of Orthodox Judaism that reaches out to non-Orthodox Jews to encourage belief in God and living according to Orthodox Jewish law. The process of a Jew becoming more observant of Orthodox Judaism is called teshuva making the "returnee" a baal teshuva. Orthodox Jewish outreach has worked to enhance the rise of the baal teshuva movement.
Yitzchak Ginsburgh is an American-born Israeli rabbi affiliated with the Chabad movement. He is regarded as one of Chabad's leading authorities on Jewish mysticism.
He is the leader of the Derech Chaim Movement and founder of the Gal Einai Institute, which publishes his written works. His students include Charedim, religious Zionists, and Chabad Chassidim, as well as ba'alei teshuvah. He is currently the president of a number of educational institutions, including the Od Yosef Chai yeshiva in the settlement of Yitzhar in the West Bank. Ginsburgh has a unique teaching style, and has lectured in various countries, and throughout Israel. His teachings cover a wide range of subjects, including science, psychology, marital harmony and monarchy in Israel. He has published over 100 books in Hebrew and English, most of which are edited by his students.
WebYeshiva.org is the first online yeshiva and midrasha. It was founded in November 2007 by Rabbi Chaim Brovender. WebYeshiva offers live and fully interactive courses for students who want to study Torah, including classes in Gemara, Tanach, Halacha, Chassidut, and Machshava and some in different languages. All classes are recorded and archived within 24 hours.
The Jerusalem Kollel is a rabbinic education program with the stated goal of training kollel students to assume positions of leadership in Jewish communities worldwide.
Asher Kushnir is a Russian-speaking rabbi, lecturer and specialist on child-rearing and family relationships. He arrived in Israel in 1983 from the former Soviet Union, physicist by profession. After working as a scientist in the Weizmann Institute and serving in the Israeli army, he studied at Ohr Somayach and Mir yeshivas, as well as with Rav Ben Porat.
Isaac Stollman was a noted rabbi, author and religious Zionist leader.
He was born in Russia in 1897. He studied at some of the most prominent Yeshivos including the Yeshiva of the Chofetz Chaim in Radin, the Slobodka yeshiva, and the Novardok yeshiva. He received rabbinical ordination from Shimon Shkop, Moshe Mordechai Epstein and others. In 1924, he immigrated to the United States where he served as rabbi in Detroit, Michigan. In 1925 he became rabbi of the Mishkan Israel synagogue. In Detroit he was active in many areas of Jewish life. He served as leader of Young Israel, the Stoliner Synagogue, the Beth Yehudah school, the Jewish Community Council, and was also on the board of the Jewish Federation. In 1957, having served as vice-president of Mizrachi-Hapoel Hamizrachi of America for years, he was elected president of that organization, re-elected in 1959, and remained in that position till 1960. He was the president of the Detroit Rabbinical Council and the author of the acclaimed Minchas Yitzchak on the Pentateuch.
Upon Stollman's death in 1980, Emanuel Rackman representing Bar-Ilan University referred to Rabbi Stollman as a "distinguished Rabbi and scholar and outstanding Religious Zionist leader". Rabbi Norman Lamm representing Yeshiva University referred to Stollman as "an outstanding scholar and Zionist."
Rabbi Avraham Jacobovitz (1952) is an Israeli-born Charedi rabbi, who founded Machon L'Torah and Jewish Awareness America (JAAM), to educate Jewish college students about Jewish heritage and values.
Yitzchak Blazer (1837 – 1907) was an early important leader of the Musar movement.
Yeshivas Itri is an Orthodox yeshiva in southeast Jerusalem, Israel. Founded in 1968 by Rabbi Mordechai Elefant, the yeshiva has several branches in Israel and the United States, and spawned several educational programs for Diaspora Jews.
