Moshe Meiselman is an American-born Orthodox rabbi and rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Toras Moshe in Jerusalem, which he established in 1982.
16 Facts About Moshe Meiselman
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Moshe Meiselman founded and served as principal of Yeshiva University of Los Angeles from 1977 to 1982.
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Moshe Meiselman is a descendant of the Lithuanian Jewish Soloveitchik rabbinic dynasty.
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Rabbi Meiselman was born to Harry Meiselman, a dental surgeon, and Shulamit Soloveitchik, a teacher and Jewish school principal who attended New York University and Radcliffe College.
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Rabbi Moshe Meiselman graduated from high school at the Boston Latin School and then went on to attend Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he earned his doctorate in mathematics in 1967 with the thesis "The Operation Ring for Connective K-Theory".
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Rabbi Moshe Meiselman began his career teaching mathematics at City University of New York.
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Moshe Meiselman served as a posek for the local community.
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In 1982, having built up enrollment to nearly 400 male and female students in YULA's various divisions, Rabbi Moshe Meiselman moved to Israel to open a yeshiva for American students, together with co-rosh yeshiva Rabbi Doniel Lehrfield.
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Moshe Meiselman named the new school Toras Moshe after his grandfather, Moshe.
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Moshe Meiselman selected Rabbis Michel Shurkin and Moshe Twersky, both close students of Rabbi Soloveitchik, to head the teaching staff.
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In 2011, Moshe Meiselman reported about his yeshiva that "We have 96 boys in the beis medrash and 44 in the kollel, and almost all of our kollel yungerleit are home-grown".
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Rabbi Moshe Meiselman is the author of several books and numerous magazine articles.
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Additionally, Rabbi Moshe Meiselman has authored Tiferes Tzvi, a commentary to the Rambam, as well as numerous articles on Talmudic study and thought in Hebrew.
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Moshe Meiselman's book has been criticized by Rabbi Dr Natan Slifkin and others.
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Rabbi Moshe Meiselman subscribes to Haredi views regarding the State of Israel and the Israel Defence Forces.
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In 2013, Rabbi Moshe Meiselman sat on the dais at a rally in NY against conscription of yeshiva students into the Israeli army.