R. Levitan's Family; Mr. Mendlowitz; Torah Umesorah, Aish Dos Teacher's Training Program; Camp Mesivta; History of Day Schools and Talmud Torahs in America; Congregation Shearith Israel; Three Rabbinic Graduates of Torah Vodaath and of Torah Umesorah - Mar 15, 2021 - The three rabbinic graduates were R. Bernard Goldenberg, R. Alexander Gross, and R. Ephraim Wolf. At the beginning of the shiur are some brief comments on some stringencies of Pesach and on separate seating at weddings. How Chassidut very much influenced Mr. Mendlowitz is described and how this helped him. The shiur describes the lack of teachers of Torah in America which were needed (since the increase in the number of day schools accelerated especially by the 1940s) and how this problem was solved with Mr. Mendlowitz playing a key role. Camp Moshava of the early 1950s is mentioned. At the beginning the benefit of publishing of Rav Soloveitchik's Yiddish talks in Yiddish is discussed.
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