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Is Leib Tropper related to the Tropper in LA that opened the “home school” Yeshiva?

From UOJ: The LA Tropper is a nephew, the son of Rabbi Dovid Tropper. They both taught in various LA yeshivas. The tapes: http://www.2shared.com/file/10008550/23589caa/Leibs_contract_2.html http://www.2shared.com/file/10008637/e92010d6/Leibs_contract.html http://www.2shared.com/file/10008381/e57caec3/rebbetzinAdmission.html

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Telshe Yeshiva College Falling Apart

The oldest yeshiva in America has a new administration. The Gifter family (which ran Telshe from 1964) is out in the cold. The powers now at Telshe include jeweler Jonah Sheinbaum, and rabbis Levitansky, Goldberg and Greenwald. Employees at Telshe … Continue reading

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Rabbis Vs Journalists

The Jewish Week reported in its June 10, 2009 issue: The halachic adviser to Ohel Children’s Home and Family Services, which receives millions of dollars in state and federal money, told a Bergenfield, N.J., synagogue audience in 2007 that tax … Continue reading

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Do Rabbis Avi Weiss, Saul Berman Deserve To Be Called ‘Amalek’?

Yehuda posts to Hirhurim: Gil, it’s lovely you’re so tolerant. I’m glad you know what they mean. Despite your tolerance, I think anyone calling you, Rabbis Weiss or Berman, or any other Torah opinions "Amalek" deserves a public rebuke, and … Continue reading

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Tranquility Bay

The Awareness Center posts March 28: Isaac Hersh was being held at Tranquility Bay, a boot camp in Jamaica, which was known for using severe corporal punishment on the children. Allegations have been made that Isaac’s parents (Miriam and Michael … Continue reading

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