Yeshiva of South Shore

Yeshiva of South Shore (YOSS)[1][2] is an American Orthodox[3] boys' and men's yeshiva in Long Island that was opened at a time when the area had no yeshivos, and subsequently expanded to being in need of renting unused public school space.[4] In part, this was due to growth of the local Orthodox Jewish population: The New York Times reported that 90% of those newly moving in were Orthodox Jews.[5]

History

Binyamin Kamenetsky, the school's founder, who had been teaching in the 1940s at Yeshiva Toras Chaim (East New York),[6] asked one student why he was commuting daily from Cedarhurst. The boy said that his community did not have a yeshiva. With the encouragement of Yaakov Kamenetsky (his father) Binyamin moved from Brooklyn to Five Towns and "served as the Rav of a minyan that would become the Young Israel of Woodmere." In 1956 he "left his rabbinical position" and began Yeshiva Toras Chaim South Shore.[7] The school opened in September.[8]

"Seven years later, the two Jewish schools merged and moved to a new campus on William Street in Hewlett."[9][10] Binyamin's son Mordechai later succeeded his father's position.[11]

A local newspaper described the impact of this school, and a girls' school begun by the same founder,[12] has been described as a "powerful force in the transformation of the community."[13]

Controversy

In 1988, when they found their facility overcrowded, they were rebuffed in attempts to rent unused public school space.[4] Two years prior the school encountered what a member of the Nassau County Commission on Human Rights called "problems between Orthodox and non-Orthodox Jews here in the Five Towns."[14]

See also

References
  1. "1339 Broadway, Hewlett, NY". New York Times. (0.31 miles away). .. Yeshiva Of South Shore
  2. "Obituary 1 -- No Title". New York Times. March 18, 1964. The Yeshiva of South Shore
  3. "The OU Remembers Rebbetzin Tzirel Kamenetzky Ob"m". Orthodox Union (OU). November 2, 2015.
  4. Sharon Monahan (April 17, 1988). "Rental Rejection Annoys Yeshiva". New York Times.
  5. Marcelle S. Fischler (December 30, 2009). "Portrait of a Village at 100". New York Times.
  6. "Rav Binyamin Kamenetsky". The Jewish Press. May 3, 1917. serving in the 1940s as first-grade rebbe in the Yeshiva Toras Chaim in East New York, Brooklyn
  7. "Harav Binyomin Kamenetzky, ZT"L". Hamodia. April 29, 2017.
  8. Jewish Communities of the Five Towns and the Rockaways. The Jewish Heritage Society of the Five Towns. 2015. ISBN 9781467133913.
  9. Jeff Bessen (November 14, 2019). "Lighting the way at Yeshiva of South Shore". Long Island Herald.
  10. Rabbi Shmuel Kaminetzky (December 18, 2018). "Rabbi Chanina Herzberg, ZT"L". Hamodia.
  11. "Remembering Rav Binyamin Kamenetzky zt"l Upon His Yahrtzeit". Yated}. April 11, 2018.
  12. TAG: Torah Academy for Girls
  13. "YOSS to Host Yom Iyun in Memory of Rav Kamenetzky, ZT"L". 5tJt.com (Five Towns Jewish Times). May 2, 2019.
  14. Sharon Monahan (July 27, 1986). "Holocaust Center is Blocked". New York Times.


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