Yaakov Feitman

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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]

Professional

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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]

Congregation Builder

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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.

Cleveland, Ohio

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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]

Authorship

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  • The Rogatchover Gaon (biography)
  • "The Halachic Process" (recording) [12]
  • "Daas Torah: Tapping the Source of Eternal Wisdom". In: Torah Lives, ed. Nisson Wolpin. Brooklyn, NY: Mesorah Publications, 1995. Pg ix-xxviii. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
  • "The invention of religion" pp. 67–68 (Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).) by Derek R. Peterson & Darren R. Walhof
  • Out of the Iron Furnace (Shengold Publishing, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).), by Rabbi Eliezer Ben-David, translated into English and adapted by Rabbi Yaakov Feitman
  • a Eulogy he wrote for Rabbi Mordechai Gifter for Yated Neeman [1]
  • an article written for Mishpacha regarding the decades since the passing of Rabbi Yitzchok Hutner [2][13]
  • Wrote articles for Mishpacha Magazine[14]
  • Writes weekly articles in Yated Neeman[15]
  • Blueprints: Torah views of the world and events around us (Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).): Mesorah Publications[16]
  • Days of Reflection, Days of Joy Discovering the Gifts of Elul, the Yamim Noraim and Succos(Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).): Mesorah Publications[17]

References

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  6. ^ and in Yarchei Kallah programs
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  9. ^ An article in the Jan. 12, 1998 issue of Jewish World Review described the area as a "predominantly Jewish Cleveland suburb."
  10. ^ court case 2006-Ohio-4379; earlier the local ADL and Zoning.
  11. ^ and dealing with opposition from fellow Jews: "If you want to move in, move in... But when you bring all the baggage with you -- two synagogues, the mikvah, the school, the whole shtick -- you're taking over." https://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/13/magazine/the-jewish-tipping-point.html&pagewanted=print
  12. ^ Halakha#Sources and process
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