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    Shimon Yehuda Shkop (Hebrew: שמעון שקופ; 1860 – October 22, 1939) was Rosh Yeshiva (dean) of the Yeshiva of Telshe, and later of Yeshiva Shaar HaTorah...
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    city of Grodno, then under Russian rule. Founded during World War I, Shimon Shkop became rosh yeshiva (dean) in 1920. The yeshiva was founded in either...
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    Zionist activist and Israeli politician. She was a granddaughter of Rabbi Shimon Shkop and mother of IDF soldier Uri Ilan. Fayge Ilanit was born Fayge Hindes...
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  • Poland. He served as mashgiach ruchani of the Grodno Yeshiva under Shimon Shkop, until he was murdered the Holocaust. Shlomo Harkavy was born c. 1890...
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    1933 he also met with Chaim Elazar Shapiro, as well as with Talmudist Shimon Shkop. During this time he kept a diary in which he would carefully document...
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  • Moshe Shmuel Shapira Rabbi Meir Shapiro Rabbi Naftoli Shapiro Rabbi Shimon Shkop Rabbi Chaim Shmuelevitz Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz...
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    (1911-1991) of Boston, Zvi Olshwang (1873–1961) of Chicago (brother-in-law of Shimon Shkop) and Avraham Eliyahu Plotkin (1888-1948; author of Birurei Halachot—a...
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    but returned to Maletz, where he became a prominent student of Rabbi Shimon Shkop. After his marriage to Rachel Leah Yellin, he studied at the kollel of...
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    he was twenty, under the tutelage of Rabbi Eliezer Gordon and Rabbi Shimon Shkop. He then spent half a year in Novardok yeshiva, after which he spent...
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    became the rabbi of Kelm; and Shlomo Zalman Abel, the brother-in-law of Shimon Shkop. In 1883, Eliezer Gordon was appointed as the chief rabbi of the town...
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    had operated in the city (Shaar ha-Tora) under the management of Rabbi Shimon Shkop. Before the German-Soviet invasion of Poland there were about 25,000...
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    Kosiński – Polish actor Ignatius Kapitsa-Milewski – archivist and author Shimon Shkop – Jewish scholar and rabbi (1906–1920) Moshe Rosen (Nezer HaKodesh) -...
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    faction. Uri was the great-grandson of the famed Talmudic scholar Rabbi Shimon Shkop. In July 1953, Ilan enlisted in the Golani Brigade. On December 8, 1954...
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  • Lichtenstein lectured there for significant portions of their careers. Shimon Shkop taught at RIETS for a short period in 1929, as did Shlomo Polachek, Menachem...
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    Rabbi Simcha Sheps Rabbi Shimon Schwab Rabbi Moshe Zvi Segal Rabbi Moshe Shmuel Shapira Rabbi Naftoli Shapiro Rabbi Shimon Shkop Rabbi Chaim Shmuelevitz...
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  • Yeshiva and subsequently taught there. He was the brother-in-law of Shimon Shkop. Abel died on Tuesday October 12, (13th Tishrei) 1886. Beis Shlomo, published...
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  • Kollel, and a major shul. Koppelman was "a leading disciple of Rabbi Shimon Shkop," having been at the latter's yeshiva for 18 years. Prior to World War...
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  • relationship with Rabbi Shlomo Mattis, a principal student of Rabbi Shimon Shkop. While still of a relatively young age, Rabbi Paretzky went to learn...
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  • Seminary in America Simcha Sheps (1908–1998), rosh yeshiva of Torah Vodaath Shimon Shkop (1860–1939), Rosh Yeshiva in Telz and Grodno in Europe and in Rabbi Isaac...
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    yeshiva dean in Kobrin David Rappoport, yeshiva dean of Baranovich Yeshiva Shimon Shkop, yeshiva dean of the Grodno Yeshiva Chaim Soloveitchik, rabbi in Brest...
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  • Queens, named for the yeshiva in Grodno of his wife's grandfather, Rabbi Shimon Shkop. Epstein maintained a relatively low profile – for example, he did not...
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    Halevy Rabinowitz Yitzchak Yaacov Reines Mnachem Risikoff Zundel Salant Kalman Schulman Refael Shapiro Shimon Shkop Chaim Soloveitchik Kalman Zev Wissotzky...
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    save the life, we still declare that the chilul Shabbos is allowed. Rav Shimon Shkop, in his famous sefer Shaarei Yosher, points out from the Gemarah that...
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    a student of the Chofetz Chaim, (Rabbi Israel Meir Kagan) and Rabbi Shimon Shkop. In the 1930s he moved to Jerusalem. Hutner co-founded the project of...
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    received semicha (rabbinic ordination) from Rabbi Leibowitz and Rabbi Shimon Shkop, rosh yeshiva of the Grodno yeshiva. He also received semicha from Rabbi...
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    Mileitzitz. In his early years, Malin learned in Grodno under Rabbi Shimon Shkop. Later he learned under Rabbis Elchonon Wasserman and Baruch Ber Lebowitz...
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  • Chavrusa together with Chaim Shmuelevitz in Grodno, and learned from Shimon Shkop at the Grodno Yeshiva. At age 20 he married Sarah, a daughter of Rabbi...
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  • alumnus) Jacob J. Schachter Barry Scheck, lawyer Lawrence Schiffman Shimon Shkop Eli Baruch Shulman Nahum Slouschz Joseph B. Soloveitchik, The Rav, (deceased)...
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    Grodno. He studied at the local Sha’ar Hatorah Yeshiva and was student of Shimon Shkop. He also studied with Yisroel Zev Gustman. In 1935, after the death of...
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  • studied in the Telshe Yeshiva in Telšiai (Telz) under Eliezer Gordon and Shimon Shkop. When Wasserman returned home during vacation, he participated in classes...
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