Avodat Levi
Baltimore, MD
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Yaakov Yitzchak Ruderman
Yaakov Yitzchak Ruderman
1900 CE–1987 CE · Modern · Baltimore, MD
R. Yaakov Yitzchak Ruderman (1900-1987), the founding rosh yeshiva of Ner Israel Rabbinical College in Baltimore, was among the most influential rosh yeshivos of postwar American Litvish Jewry. A leading talmid of R. Nosson Tzvi Finkel (the Alter of Slabodka) and son-in-law of R. Sheftel Kramer of New Haven, he founded Ner Israel in 1933 and led it for over half a century. His Avodas Levi chiddushim on Shas are widely studied. Ner Israel became, under his leadership, one of the three premier American yeshivos — alongside Lakewood (BMG) and Telshe Cleveland.
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Stop 1 of 11933–1987Rosh Yeshiva
Baltimore, MDNer Israel yeshiva center
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Founded Ner Israel Rabbinical College in Baltimore in 1933 and led it for 54 years.
About Baltimore, MD
Baltimore, Maryland, became a major center of American Orthodox Torah life with the founding of Yeshivas Ner Yisroel (Ner Israel Rabbinical College) in 1933 by Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchok Ruderman, a disciple of the Alter of Slabodka. It was the first major yeshiva established outside the New York area and grew, under Rabbi Ruderman's leadership, into one of the most influential yeshivas in North America.
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