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    Ponevezh Yeshiva (Lithuanian: Panevėžio ješiva), often pronounced as Ponevitch Yeshiva (Hebrew: ישיבת פוניבז׳), is a yeshiva founded in 1919 in Panevėžys...
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    Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman (category Ponevezh Yeshiva)
    known also as Ponevezher Rav), was an Orthodox rabbi and rosh yeshiva of the Ponevezh Yeshiva. He was a renowned Torah and Talmudic scholar, a distinguished...
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  • Yitzhak Yaakov Rabinovich (category Ponevezh Yeshiva)
    an Orthodox rabbi, supporter of socialist ideas and founder of the Ponevezh Yeshiva. Yitzhak Yaakov Rabinovich was born in 1854 in Shereshevo, Belorussia...
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    Panevėžys (redirect from Ponevezh)
    matches. The city is still known in the Jewish world for the eponymous Ponevezh Yeshiva. The name of the city is derived from the Lithuanian hydronym Nevėžis...
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    Shmuel Rozovsky (category Ponevezh Yeshiva)
    Shmuel Rozovsky (1913–1979) was Rosh Yeshiva of the Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak, Israel. Rozovsky was born in Grodno, where his father Michel Dovid...
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    Gershon Edelstein (category Ponevezh Rosh yeshivas)
    30 May 2023) was a Soviet-born Israeli rabbi who was rosh yeshiva of the Ponevezh Yeshiva, president of the Vaad Hayeshivos, and the spiritual leader...
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    for his students; Ponevezh similarly by Rabbi Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman; and Knesses Chizkiyahu in 1949. The leading Sephardi Yeshiva, Porat Yosef, was founded...
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    Baruch Dov Povarsky (category Ponevezh Rosh yeshivas)
    referred to as Rabbi Berel Povarsky, is rosh yeshiva of one of the two divisions of the Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak, Israel. He served alongside Rabbi...
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    Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler (category Ponevezh Yeshiva)
    known for being the mashgiach ruchani ("spiritual counselor") of the Ponevezh yeshiva in Israel and through collections of his writings published posthumously...
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  • Dovid Povarsky (category Ponevezh Rosh yeshivas)
    Povarsky (Hebrew: יהושע דוד פוברסקי; 1902–1999) was Rosh Yeshiva (dean) of Ponevezh Yeshiva. Povarsky studied in the Kelm Talmud Torah under Yeruchom...
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    Elazar Shach (category Ponevezh Rosh yeshivas)
    as chair of the Council of Sages and one of three co-deans of the Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak, along with Shmuel Rozovsky and Dovid Povarsky. Due to...
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    Dov Lando (category Ponevezh Yeshiva alumni)
    directorate of the Board of Yeshivas. In his youth, he studied under Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz as well as at the yeshivot of Ponevezh and Hebron. With the death...
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    Yosef. He studied at the Or Israel Yeshiva in his youth, a year at the Ponevezh Yeshiva and then at the Hebron Yeshiva (Knesset of Israel) in Jerusalem...
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    although in a rare symbolic gesture in gratitude to state funding, the Ponevezh Yeshiva raise the flag once a year on Independence Day. Some fringe groups...
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    while studying, as evident in a rare footage of the Ponevezh Yeshiva and a photo of the Lomza Yeshiva, both in Eastern Europe. Both the footage and the...
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    Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman (category Ponevezh Yeshiva)
    began giving to Ponevezh Kollel students in his home in 1994, and on shmuessen (ethical talks) that he began giving to students in Yeshivas Gaon Yaakov in...
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    Salanter's eldest disciple, Rabbi Simcha Zissel Ziv, directed yeshivas in Kelme and Grobin. These yeshivas broke with established models of yeshivot in a number...
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  • Yeshivat Sha'alvim Yeshivat Shilo Ponevezh Yeshiva Kollel Chazon Ish Marbeh Torah Ponevezh Yeshiva Slabodka yeshiva (Bnei Brak) Aish HaTorah Ateret Cohanim...
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    Yeshivat HaYishuv HeHadash [he], and later at Beit Matityau Yeshiva and Ponevezh Yeshiva. He served as the Chief Rabbi of Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut, Israel...
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    Ponevezh Yeshiva...
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    Deri, backfired when the highly respected Ashkenazi rosh yeshiva (dean) of the Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak, Rabbi Elazar Shach (who subsequently founded...
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    Kahneman's paternal uncle was Rabbi Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman, the head of the Ponevezh Yeshiva. In 2015, Kahneman said he had always been "far on the left of the...
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    Synagogue in Vilnius, Lithuania The ark of the early 20th century Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak, Israel Ark of the Grande synagogue de la Paix, constructed...
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    the twentieth century. From the 1970s onwards, Elazar Shach of the Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak was publicly critical of Schneerson, accusing him of creating...
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    Eliezer Berland (category Ponevezh Yeshiva alumni)
    daughter of Knesset member Shalom-Avraham Shaki, Berland joined the Ponevezh Yeshiva kollel and, later, the Volozhin Kollel in Bnei Brak. He was a chavruta...
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  • Chaim of Volozhin (category Volozhin rosh yeshivas)
    great Lithuanian yeshivas, such as Slobodka yeshiva, Mir Yeshiva, Ponevezh yeshiva, Kelm yeshiva, Kletsk yeshiva, and Telz yeshiva. Rav Chaim's major...
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    regarded as the pre-eminent leader. In his youth, he studied in the Ponevezh Yeshiva. He also studied with his uncles, the Chazon Ish and the Steipler....
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  • Yehonatan Indursky (category Ponevezh Yeshiva alumni)
    ultra-Orthodox Jewish (Haredi Jewish) family and studied at the Ultra Orthodox Yeshiva Ponevezh in Bnei Brak, Israel, and later at the Sam Spiegel Film and Television...
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  • Dessler of Ponevezh Yeshiva Rabbi Yosef Yoizel Hurwitz of Novardok Yeshiva Rabbi Yechezkel Levenstein in Mir and then later in Ponevezh Yeshiva Rabbi Yeruchom...
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    non-conscription of yeshiva members near the home of Rabbi Gershon Edelstein and a symbolic "recruitment office" was opened in front of the Ponevezh yeshiva, calling...
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