Avraham Friedman

{{Short description|American Orthodox rabbi, Talmudic scholar, and rosh yeshiva}}

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| data4 = Rosh Yeshiva of Beis Medrash LaTorah and Fasman Yeshiva High School

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| label5 = Began | data5 = 2008

| label10 = Predecessor | data10 = Shlomo Morgenstern[http://haemtza.blogspot.com/2007_06_01_archive.html Emes Ve-Emunah]

| label15 = Studied Under | data15 = Ahron Soloveichik, Yaakov Perlow, Chaim Shmuelevitz, Nachum Partzovitz

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Avraham Friedman is an Orthodox rabbi and Talmudic scholar in Skokie, Illinois. After twenty five years at the Beis HaMidrash LaTorah yeshiva of the Hebrew Theological College, he became its rosh yeshiva (dean/head of school) in 2008.{{cite news|url=http://www.hamodia.com/inthepaper.cfm?ArticleID=445 |title=Sunday Gemara Shiur |work=Hamodia |accessdate=March 23, 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101218081234/http://hamodia.com/inthepaper.cfm?ArticleID=445 |archivedate=December 18, 2010 }}

Friedman is also an alumnus of the school he heads (Hebrew Theological College - Bais Hamedrash Latorah) where he studied under{{cite web | url=https://www.htc.edu/beis-midrash--mens-college/faculty--administration/administration/friedman-rabbi-avraham.php | title=Hebrew Theological College | Touro University }} rabbis Ahron Soloveichik (one of the leading talmudic scholars of his day){{cite news | url=https://jweekly.com/2001/10/12/chicago-s-torah-giant-ahron-soloveichik-dies-at-84/ | title=Chicagos Torah giant, Ahron Soloveichik, dies at 84 | newspaper=J | date=12 October 2001 }} and Yaakov Perlow (head of Agudath Israel of America).{{cite web|last=Hebrew Theological College |title=News |url=http://htc.edu/index.php/News/story1.html |accessdate=March 23, 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723132938/http://htc.edu/index.php/News/story1.html |archivedate=July 23, 2011 }}

Friedman studied in the Mir yeshiva under Chaim Shmuelevitz and Nachum Partzovitz. He was previously a maggid shiur at Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh before returning to Hebrew Theological College Beis HaMidrash LaTorah.