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Elya Brudny
Elya Brudny (born 1948) is an American Haredi rabbi. He serves as rosh yeshiva (dean)Donn, Yochonon (August 22, 2019Rav Elya Brudny Warns of 'Un-American' Regulation of Yeshivos in NY" '' Yated Ne'eman''. Retrieved August 6, 2023. in the Mir Yeshiva in Brooklyn and is a member of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah of Agudath Israel of America. Early life Elya Brudny was born to Shmuel and Rochel Brudny. As a child, his parents sent him and his brother Abba to Yeshiva Torah Vodaath. He later studied in the Lakewood Yeshiva. Career Brudny serves as a leading rosh yeshiva (dean) in the Mir Yeshiva in Brooklyn, and as the leading member of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah. His opinion is often sought by the Haredi Jewish community, with his views often being printed in the English-edition ''Hamodia'', the '' Flatbush Jewish Journal'', and ''Mishpacha'' magazine. Brudny is often invited to speak at public events such as the Agudah convention and funerals, and said the kaddish at the 2020 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mir Yeshiva (Brooklyn)
The Mirrer Yeshiva Central Institute (), commonly known as the Mir Yeshiva or the Mirrer Yeshiva (), is a Haredi yeshiva located in Brooklyn, New York. The teaching staff includes Rabbi Elya Brudny, who also sits on the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah. History :''See also Mir Yeshiva (Belarus)'' The original Mirrer Yeshiva was founded in 1815 in Mir (now in Belarus), and remained in operation there until 1914. With the outbreak of World War I, the yeshiva moved to Poltava (now in Ukraine), under the leadership of Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel, son of the legendary Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel (the ''Alter of Slabodka''), and son-in-law of Rabbi Elya Boruch Kamai, his renowned predecessor. In 1921, the yeshiva moved back to its original facilities in Mir, where it remained until Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939 marking the beginning of the Holocaust. Although many of the foreign-born students left when the Soviet army invaded from the east, the yeshiva continued to operate, albeit on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flatbush Jewish Journal
''Flatbush Jewish Journal'' (FJJ) is a Brooklyn-based weekly newspaper catering to the Orthodox Jewish community. It is closely associated with Agudath Israel of America. Overview Mordy Mehlman, who founded the ''FJJ'' in 2010, claimed that 19,000 homes receive the publication. Larry Gordon, publisher of the ''Five Towns Jewish Times'' (another New York-based newspaper) claimed that ''FJJ'' was modelled after his own publication. In 2015, the physical page size shrank due to a change that reduced printing costs. The newspaper is closely associated with Agudath Israel of America, an Orthodox Jewish advocacy organization. While the publication's audience is the Orthodox community in New York City, the name ''Flatbush Jewish Journal'' hints towards a focus on the Brooklyn neighborhood of Midwood, which many Jews consider to be part of Flatbush. For religious reasons, the newspaper refuses to print pictures of women or girls. If a ''yartzeit'' article is published about a woma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mir Rosh Yeshivas
''Mir'' (, ; ) was a space station operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001, first by the Soviet Union and later by the Russia, Russian Federation. ''Mir'' was the first modular space station and was assembled in orbit from 1986 to 1996. It had a greater mass than any previous spacecraft. At the time it was the largest artificial satellite in orbit, succeeded by the International Space Station (ISS) after ''Mir'''s orbital decay, orbit decayed. The station served as a microgravity laboratory , research laboratory in which crews conducted experiments in biology, human biology, physics, astronomy, meteorology, and spacecraft systems with a goal of developing technologies required for permanent occupation of Outer space, space. ''Mir'' was the first continuously inhabited long-term research station in orbit and held the record for the longest continuous human presence in space at 3,644 days, until it was surpassed by the ISS on 23 October 2010. It holds the recor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orthodox Rabbis From New York City
Orthodox, Orthodoxy, or Orthodoxism may refer to: Religion * Orthodoxy, adherence to accepted norms, more specifically adherence to creeds, especially within Christianity and Judaism, but also less commonly in non-Abrahamic religions like Neo-paganism or Hinduism Christian Traditional Christian denominations * Eastern Orthodoxy, which accepts the theological resolutions of the Council of Chalcedon * Oriental Orthodoxy, which does not accept the theological resolutions of the Council of Chalcedon Modern denominations * Lutheran orthodoxy, an era in the history of Lutheranism which began in 1580 from the writing of the ''Book of Concord'' * Neo-orthodoxy, a theological position also known as ''dialectical theology'' * Orthodox Presbyterian Church, a confessional Presbyterian denomination located primarily in the northern United States * Paleo-orthodoxy, (20th–21st century), a movement in the United States focusing on the consensus among the ecumenical councils and church ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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The Wall Street Journal
''The Wall Street Journal'' (''WSJ''), also referred to simply as the ''Journal,'' is an American newspaper based in New York City. The newspaper provides extensive coverage of news, especially business and finance. It operates on a subscription model, requiring readers to pay for access to most of its articles and content. The ''Journal'' is published six days a week by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corp. As of 2023, ''The'' ''Wall Street Journal'' is the List of newspapers in the United States, largest newspaper in the United States by print circulation, with 609,650 print subscribers. It has 3.17 million digital subscribers, the second-most in the nation after ''The New York Times''. The newspaper is one of the United States' Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. The first issue of the newspaper was published on July 8, 1889. The Editorial board at The Wall Street Journal, editorial page of the ''Journal'' is typically center-right in its positio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yisroel Reisman
Yisroel Reisman () is an American rabbi and posek (scholar of Jewish law) of Orthodox and Haredi Judaism who resides in Brooklyn, New York. Career Reisman is one of the roshei yeshiva (deans) at Yeshiva Torah Vodaas, where he received ''semikhah'' (rabbinical ordination). He is the rabbi of the summer camp network run by Agudath Israel of America. Reisman is the author of several books on ''halakha'' (Jewish law) and Tanach (the Jewish bible). Views In 2018, when the New York State Education Department issued a directive to all yeshivas operating in New York to come into compliance with statewide educational standards, Reisman co-authored an op-ed with Elya Brudny in the ''Wall Street Journal'' voicing their opposition to the guidelines. Reisman believes that the future of the Jewish people is in Israel, and that the Jews who remain in the diaspora should support Torah study Torah study is the study of the Torah, Hebrew Bible, Talmud, responsa, rabbinic literature, and sim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MaryEllen Elia
MaryEllen Elia (born 1948) is an American educator. She served for ten years as superintendent of Hillsborough County Public Schools in Tampa, Florida, but was fired by the school board, after a number of incidents that eroded the board's trust in her. Elia later served as New York State Education Commissioner. In that role, she gained recognition for easing tensions surrounding implementation of the Common Core State Standards Initiative and the question of how to evaluate teachers. She provoked controversy over the removal of school aid from struggling schools, the delayed removal of an outspoken Buffalo School Board member, and a directive requiring private schools to come into compliance with state standards. She resigned as education commissioner on August 31, 2019. Early life MaryEllen Elia was born and raised in Western New York. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siyum Hashas
Siyum HaShas (, lit. "completion of the Six Orders f the Talmud) is a celebration of the completion of the Daf Yomi (daily Talmud folio) program, a roughly seven-and-a-half-year cycle of learning the Oral Torah and its commentaries, in which each of the 2,711 pages of the Babylonian Talmud are covered in sequence – one page per day. The first Daf Yomi cycle began on the first day of Rosh Hashanah 5684 (11 September 1923); the thirteenth cycle concluded on 4 January 2020 and the fourteenth cycle began the following day, to be concluded on 7 June 2027. The Siyum HaShas marks both the end of the previous cycle and the beginning of the next, and is characterized by celebratory speeches, as well as singing and dancing. The next day, the new cycle begins again. For Jews for whom Torah study is a daily obligation, the publicity and excitement surrounding the Siyum HaShas has resulted in more participants, more Daf Yomi '' shiurim'' (lessons), and more Siyum locations with each cycle. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaddish
The Kaddish (, 'holy' or 'sanctification'), also transliterated as Qaddish, is a hymn praising God that is recited during Jewish prayer services. The central theme of the Kaddish is the magnification and sanctification of God's name. In the liturgy, different versions of the Kaddish are functionally chanted or sung as separators of the different sections of the service. The term ''Kaddish'' is often used to refer specifically to the Mourner's Kaddish, which is chanted as part of the mourning rituals in Judaism in all prayer services, as well as at funerals (other than at the gravesite) and memorials; for 11 Hebrew months after the death of a parent; and in some communities for 30 days after the death of a spouse, sibling, or child. A person is described as "saying Kaddish" if they are carrying out these rituals of mourning. Mourners recite Kaddish to show that despite the loss they still praise God. Along with the Shema Yisrael and the Amidah, the Kaddish is one of the most im ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mishpacha
''Mishpacha'' () - Jewish Family Weekly is a Haredi weekly magazine package produced by The Mishpacha Group in both English and Hebrew. History ''Mishpacha'' is one of the four major English-language newspapers and magazines serving the Haredi Jewish community in the United States. Together, the four publications had a circulation of about 100,000 as of 2015. ''Mishpacha'' is the only one based in Jerusalem. The Mishpacha Publishing Group was founded in 1984 with the publication of the Hebrew Mishpacha magazine. Publisher and CEO Eli Paley teamed with Moshe Grylak towards the goal of producing a magazine that would serve as a conduit for the exchange of ideas and values between the varying streams within Jewish orthodoxy, among them the Hasidic, Yeshivish, Sephardic, and Modern Orthodox communities. With no other weekly or monthly magazines geared towards Orthodox Jewish readership at that time, Mishpacha quickly gained popularity, in effect launching the Jewish Orthodox mag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirrer Yeshiva, Ocean PKWY
Louise Mirrer is an American historian who is president and CEO of the New-York Historical Society. Under Mirrer’s direction, the New-York Historical Society has launched a series of exhibitions, including ''Slavery in New York''; ''New York Divided: Slavery and the Civil War''; ''A New Light on Tiffany: Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls''; ''French Founding Father: Lafayette’s Return to Washington’s America''; '' Grant and Lee in War and Peace''; ''Lincoln and New York'', ''Nueva York'' and a rich array of intellectually engaging lectures, debates and family programs. Mirrer inaugurated the Saturday Academy, an American history enhancement program for high-school students, and a new Graduate Institute on Constitutional History. Mirrer also led the Historical Society’s 100-million-dollar campaign for a major renovation of its landmark building on Central Park West, creating new permanent installation galleries and a children's history museum. Mirrer also oversaw effort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
