Yaakov Feitman is a

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, speaker and author who helped build and expand congregations in more than one geographic region and was the founding principal of three schools. Feitman was born in 1948 in a

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.book ''Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle For The Soul Of American Jewry'' by Samuel G. Freedman,

Professional

He received rabbinical ordination from rabbis

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and Yitzchak Hutner. Feitman is a past president of the Young Israel Council of Rabbis, has been a Scholar-in-Residence all over the world and spoken at OU,

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and Agudah conventions.

Congregation Builder

Presently the rabbi of the "Red Shul", Kehillas Bais Yehuda Tzvi in

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, he has held pulpits in Cleveland, Ohio and Teaneck, NJ.

Cleveland, Ohio

In 1983, moved from

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to become the rabbi of Young Israel of Cleveland, which at the time 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. Those years involved not only religious matters but dealing with extensive problems regarding

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Authorship

(biography) * "The Halachic Process" (recording) * "Daas Torah: Tapping the Source of Eternal Wisdom". In: Torah Lives, ed. Nisson Wolpin. Brooklyn, NY: Mesorah Publications, 1995. Pg ix-xxviii. . * "The invention of religion" pp. 67–68 () by Derek R. Peterson & Darren R. Walhof * ''Out of the Iron Furnace'' (Shengold Publishing, ), by Rabbi Eliezer Ben-David, translated into English and adapted by Rabbi Yaakov Feitman * a

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he wrote for Rabbi Mordechai Gifter for Yated Neemanbr>
* an article written for

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regarding the decades since the passing of Rabbi Yitzchok Hutnerbr>
* Wrote articles for Mishpacha Magazine * Writes weekly articles in Yated Neeman * Blueprints: Torah views of the world and events around us ():

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*Days of Reflection, Days of Joy Discovering the Gifts of Elul, the Yamim Noraim and Succos():

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* (KBYT: Kehillas Bais Yehuda Tzvi, Rabbi: Yaakov Feitman) {{DEFAULTSORT:Feitman, Yaakov American Haredi rabbis Living people Year of birth missing (living people) 20th-century American rabbis 21st-century American rabbis