Name Yaakov Feitman | ||
Yaakov Feitman is a rabbi, speaker and author who helped build and expand congregations in more than one geographic region and was the founding principal of three schools.
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Feitman was born in a Displaced Persons camp to Holocaust survivors.
Professional
He received rabbinical ordination from rabbis Moshe Feinstein and Yitzchok Hutner.
Feitman is a past president of the Young Israel Council of Rabbis, has been a Scholar-in-Residence all over the world and spoken at OU, Torah Umesorah and Agudah conventions.
Congregation Builder
Presently the rabbi of the popular "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 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.
Those years involved not only religious matters but dealing with extensive problems regarding land use and discrimination .