Yaakov Feitman is a rabbi, speaker and author [1] who helped build and expand congregations in more than one geographic region and was the founding principal [2] of three schools. [3]
Feitman was born in 1948 in a Displaced Persons camp to Holocaust survivors. [4] [ page needed ]
He received rabbinical ordination from rabbis Moshe Feinstein and Yitzchak Hutner. [5]
Feitman is a past president of the Young Israel Council of Rabbis, has been a Scholar-in-Residence [6] all over the world and spoken at OU, Torah Umesorah and Agudah conventions. [7]
Presently the rabbi of the "Red Shul", Kehillas Bais Yehuda Tzvi in Cedarhurst, New York, he has held pulpits in Cleveland, Ohio and Teaneck, NJ.
In 1983, moved from Brooklyn to become the rabbi of Young Israel of Cleveland, [8] which at the time [4] [ page needed ] had congregations in Cleveland Heights and South Euclid. Feitman divided his time between and duties between the two locations and helped guide these congregants, over a period of years, through this transition. Later he helped with another transition in what became the Young Israel of Beachwood, located in a Cleveland-suburb. [9]
Those years involved not only religious matters but dealing with extensive problems regarding land use and discrimination [10] . [11]