Yaakov Feitman
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 a Displaced Persons camp to Holocaust survivors.[4][page needed]
Professional
He received rabbinical ordination from rabbis Moshe Feinstein and Yitzchok 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
Presently the rabbi of the popular "Red Shul", Kehillas Bais Yehuda Tzvi in Cedarhurst, New York), he has held pulpits in Cleveland, Ohio and Teaneck, NJ.
Cleveland, Ohio
In 1983, moved from Brooklyn to become the rabbi of Young Israel of Cleveland, which at the time [4][page needed] had congregations in Cleveland Heights and South Euclid. Feitman divided his time between and duties between the 2 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.[8]
Those years involved not only religious matters but dealing with extensive problems regarding land use and discrimination [9] .[10]
Authorship
- The Rogatchover Gaon[dead link] (biography)
- "The Halachic Process" (recording) [11]
- "Daas Torah: Tapping the Source of Eternal Wisdom". In: Torah Lives, ed. Nisson Wolpin. Brooklyn, NY: Mesorah Publications, 1995. Pg ix-xxviii. ISBN 0-89906-319-5.
- "The invention of religion" pp. 67–68 (ISBN 0-8135-3093-8) by Derek R. Peterson & Darren R. Walhof
- Out of the Iron Furnace (Shengold Publishing, ISBN 0-88400-040-0), 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][dead link]
- an article written for Mishpacha regarding the decades since the passing of Rabbi Yitzchok Hutner [2]
References
- ^ and "a contributing editor to The journal of Contemporary Halacha and to the ArtScroll Judaica series. http://www.ou.org/chagim/pesach/dance.htm
- ^ Dr. Marvin Schick thanked him in a 2005 Blog, http://mschick.blogspot.com/2005/05/rjj-newsletter-may-2005.html, for what he did in Staten Island for RJJ "thirty years ago"
- ^ http://www.smilowgreenwald.com/yom-tov [dead link]
- ^ a b book Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle For The Soul Of American Jewry by Samuel G. Freedman, ISBN 0-684-85945-9
- ^ http://www.koshertravelinfo.com/passover_2008/smilow_family.html [dead link]
- ^ and in Yarchei Kallah programs
- ^ http://www.ou.org/conferences/convention/2001/speakers.htm [dead link]
- ^ An article in the Jan. 12, 1998 issue of Jewish World Review described the area as a "predominantly Jewish Cleveland suburb."
- ^ court case 2006-Ohio-4379; earlier the local ADL and Zoning.
- ^ 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." http://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/13/magazine/the-jewish-tipping-point.html&pagewanted=print
- ^ Halakha#Sources and process
External links
- Official website (KBYT: Kehillas Bais Yehuda Tzvi, Rabbi: Yaakov Feitman)
