Haredi Judaism in the United States

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 92. Chapters: American Haredi rabbis, Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah, Agudath Israel of America, Yitzchok Hutner, Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Aryeh Kaplan, Telshe yeshiva, Yaakov Weinberg, Moshe Feinstein, Chaim Michael Dov Weissmandl, Emanuel Feldman, Yosef Reinman, Ilan D. Feldman, Avigdor Miller, Beth Medrash Govoha, Yeshivas Ner Yisroel, Shmuel Ehrenfeld, Shimon Schwab, Menachem Ziemba, Chaim Leib Shmuelevitz, Hanoch Teller, Yosef Eliyahu Henkin, Meir Zlotowitz, Shlomo Carlebach, Aaron Schechter, Zev Leff, Mordechai Gifter, Union of Orthodox Rabbis, Levi Yitzchak Horowitz, Chaim Mordechai Katz, Aharon Kotler, Yisrael Mendel Kaplan, Shneur Kotler, Tzvi Berkowitz, Aryeh Leib Malin, Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg, Herman N. Neuberger, Shmuel Berenbaum, Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin, Yerucham Gorelick, Refael Reuvain Grozovsky, Mir yeshiva, Moshe Heinemann, Yated Ne'eman, Yehuda Levin, Yissocher Frand, Chaim Dov Keller, Avraham Eliezer Alperstein, Avraham Mordechai Alter, Dov Berish Weidenfeld, Pinchas Menachem Alter, Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz, Isser Zalman Meltzer, Yeshiva Gedola of Carteret, Aharon Feldman, Joseph Kaminetsky, Yaakov Feitman, Avrohom Blumenkrantz, Baruch Sorotzkin, Jonathan Rosenblum, Yeshiva Torah Temimah, Yaakov Kamenetsky, Yaakov Aryeh Alter, Shmuel Kamenetsky, Kalman Packouz, Zelik Epstein, Gedalia Schorr, Yaakov Yitzchok Ruderman, Ohr Somayach, Monsey, Shlomo Porter, Binyomin Paler, Abba Berman, David Harris, Simcha Bunim Cohen, Henoch Leibowitz, Reuven Feinstein, Mesivta Tiferes Yisroel, Dovid Lifshitz, Pesach Stein, Simcha Bunim Alter, Elya Svei, Avi Shafran, Bezalel Rudinsky, Yerucham Olshin, Paysach Krohn, Avraham Yaakov Pam, Samuel Turk, Malkiel Kotler, Matis Weinberg, Matisyohu Salomon, Nosson Scherman, Sh'or Yoshuv, Yitzchok Cohen, Yisroel Belsky, Dovid Grossman, Yochanan Zweig, Yaakov Perlow, Binyomin Wilhelm, Moshe Hillel Hirsch, Gavriel Zev Margolis, Yaakov Luban, Dovid Feinstein, Ezras Torah Fund, Yisroel Dovid Harfenes, Dov Ber Abramowitz, Yisroel Pinchos Bodner, Zvi Hirsch Grodzinsky, Moshe Sherer, Osher Zilberstein, Yeshiva Toras Chaim, Kollel Gur Aryeh, Kol Yaakov Torah Center, Simcha Wasserman. Excerpt: Joseph Ber (Yosef Dov, Yoshe Ber) Soloveitchik (Hebrew: ¿ (1903-1993) was an American Orthodox rabbi, Talmudist and modern Jewish philosopher. He was a descendant of the Lithuanian Jewish Soloveitchik rabbinic dynasty. As Rosh Yeshiva of Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary at Yeshiva University in New York City, The Rav (actually pronounced The Rov, similar to his illustrious uncle Rabbi Yitzchok Zev Soloveitchik who was universally known as "The Rov"), as he came to be known, ordained close to 2,000 rabbis over the course of almost half a century. He advocated a synthesis between Torah scholarship and Western, secular scholarship as well as positive involvement with the broader community. He served as an advisor, guide, mentor, and role-model for tens of thousands of Jews, both as a Talmudic scholar and as a religious leader. He is regarded as a seminal figure by Modern Orthodox Judaism. Joseph Ber Soloveitchik was born on February 27, 1903 in Pruzhany, then Russia, next Poland, now Belarus). He came from a rabbinical dynasty dating back some 200 years: his paternal grandfather was Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik, and his great-grandfather and namesake was Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveitchik, the Beis HaLevi. His great-great-grandfather was Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin (The Netziv)...