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    Professor Elchanan Israel Meir (10 July 1936 – 17 February 2014; Hebrew: אלחנן ישראל מאיר) was an Israeli psychologist who was a professor in the Department...
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  • Hasidic Judaism Surname: Elchanan Meir (1936–2014), Israeli psychologist Gideon Meir (1947-2021), Israeli diplomat Golda Meir (1898–1978), a founder of...
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  • Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS /riːts/) is the rabbinical seminary of Yeshiva University (YU). It is located along Amsterdam Avenue in...
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  • Israeli Life". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 January 2012. "Biography of Elchanan Tannenbaum, Missing in Action". Mia.org.il. Retrieved 10 July 2015. بين...
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  • City, where he also received rabbinic ordination (semicha) at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and studied philosophy of religion at Yale University...
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    Canada and then went to Yeshiva University's Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yitzchak Elchanan in New York. Among his study partners was Avigdor Miller. A few years later...
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    in Warsaw in the Russian Empire (today in Poland), Ben-Meir was educated at the Yitzchak Elchanan yeshiva, before studying at Yeshiva University and New...
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    Meir Atlas (Hebrew: מאיר אטלס; 1848–1926) was the rabbi of numerous communities in pre-World War II Europe and one of the founders of the Telz Yeshiva...
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    Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor or Isaac Elhanan Spector (Hebrew: יצחק אלחנן ספקטור; 1817 - March 6, 1896) was a Russian rabbi, posek and Talmudist of the 19th...
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  • yeshiva (dean) in prewar Europe. He was one of the closest students of Yisrael Meir Kagan (the Chofetz Chaim) and a noted Talmid Chacham. In the interwar period...
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    to America in 1929 and was appointed as a rosh yeshiva at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS). (While RIETS has at no point ever called...
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    devotion. The project was approved by, and eventually named for, Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor, the rabbi of Kovno. When the Nazis invaded and occupied Kovno...
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  • 25, 1986) was an American rabbi who was Rosh Yeshiva at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. Nisson Lipa Alpert was born in 1927 in Polanka, a...
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  • (1788–1812), Rabbi of Piła. He married Sarel (Hebrew: שרל) the daughter of Elchanan from the village Šúrovce (Hebrew: שיראוויטץ). They lived in Šúrovce where...
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    21, 1941) was an Orthodox rabbi. He was Rosh Yeshiva at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University. He was born in Valozhyn, the...
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  • of Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary Joseph Ber Soloveitchik (1903–1993), distinguished Rosh Yeshiva of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary...
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  • verbally and often in print. In some institutions, such as YU's Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, the title of rosh yeshiva is given to many rabbis...
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    city of Mir. His paternal lineage traces back to Rabbi Elchanan of Berlin, known as "R' Elchanan Ba'al HaTosafot" due to his profound Torah knowledge,...
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    its name is derived from the family house, Rothschild, built by Isaak Elchanan Bacharach in Frankfurt in 1567. The family rose to prominence with Mayer...
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  • Tzemach Tzedek Shlomo Ganzfried (1804–1886), Kitzur Shulchan Aruch Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor (1817–1896) Yehoshua Leib Diskin (1818-1898), Maharil Diskin Yechiel...
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  • Kairouan; he gives Bari as the point of origin for his father, R. Chushiel ben Elchanan. See Gerson Cohen, ed., Sefer ha-Qabbalah (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication...
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  • (1883-1957), Lithuanian-Jewish Zionist activist, journalist, and a politician Meir Soloveichik (born 1977), American Moshe Soloveichik (1879–1941) Moshe Soloveitchik...
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  • in Schenkerian analysis Hershel Schachter, Rosh Yeshiva at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary Herschel Schacter (1917–2013), American Orthodox rabbi...
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  • Yehoshua Osher Rabinowicz Rebbe Yaakov Tzvi Rabinowicz Rebbe Uri Yehoshua Elchanan Rabinowicz Rebbe Yaakov Tzvi Rabinowicz Rebbe Avraham Rabinowicz Rebbe...
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    Julius Kaplan (Talmud scholar) (category Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary semikhah recipients)
    Kaplan moved to New York and continued his studies at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. Israel Efros was a one time classmate of his. Kaplan...
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  • local secular authorities. Since 1911, through a capitulation by Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel, Israel has had two chief rabbis, one Ashkenazi and one Sephardi...
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  • the Dombrov dynasty.[citation needed] Grand Rabbi of Kaloshin R' Avraham Elchanan Unger, son of Rabbi Mordechai Dovid of Dombrov and son-in-law of Rabbi...
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    Marcus Lehmann (redirect from Meir Lehmann)
    Marcus or Meyer Lehmann or Meir Lehmann (29 December 1831 – 14 April 1890) was a leading German Orthodox rabbi. After graduating from the gymnasium, Lehmann...
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    Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshivat R' Yitzchak Elchanan (RIETS). A sister of Rabbi Koenigsberg is married to Rabbi Meir Orlian, who is the rabbi and Dayan of a...
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    arrived in America in 1922 to become a rosh yeshiva at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) the rabbinical school of Yeshiva University...
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