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 1948 in a Displaced Persons camp to Holocaust survivors.[4]

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 "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] 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 (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
  • an article written for Mishpacha regarding the decades since the passing of Rabbi Yitzchok Hutner
  • Blueprints: Torah views of the world and events around us (ISBN 1-4226-2614-8): Mesorah Publications [12]

References
  1. and "a contributing editor to The journal of Contemporary Halacha and to the ArtScroll Judaica series. http://www.ou.org/chagim/pesach/dance.htm
  2. 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"
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-05-31. Retrieved 2009-07-13.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. book Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle For The Soul Of American Jewry by Samuel G. Freedman, ISBN 0-684-85945-9
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-06-05. Retrieved 2009-07-22.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. and in Yarchei Kallah programs
  7. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-06-16. Retrieved 2009-07-22.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. An article in the Jan. 12, 1998 issue of Jewish World Review described the area as a "predominantly Jewish Cleveland suburb."
  9. court case 2006-Ohio-4379; earlier the local ADL and Zoning.
  10. 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." https://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/13/magazine/the-jewish-tipping-point.html&pagewanted=print
  11. Halakha#Sources and process
  12. "Blueprints ISBN".
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