Hadar Hatorah
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Hadar Hatorah (full name: Yeshiva Kol Yaakov Yehuda Hadar Hatorah Rabbinical Seminary) is a Chabad men's yeshiva in Brooklyn, New York. It is the world's first yeshiva for baalei teshuva.{{cite news|url=http://www.jewishpress.com/page.do/21830/Time_To_Give_Chabad_Its_Due.html|title=Time To Give Chabad Its Due|last=Kalmanson|first=By Rabbi Sholom B.|date=June 13, 2007|publisher=The Jewish Press|access-date=25 December 2009}}{{dead link|date=October 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
History
The yeshiva, located at 824 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York 11213, was founded in 1962{{Cite web|url=http://crownheights.info/chabad-news/44507/hadar-hatorah-celebrates-golden-jubilee/|title = Hadar Hatorah Celebrates Golden Jubilee| date=June 7, 2012 }} by Rabbi Yisroel Jacobson, a Chabad activist, to accommodate baalei teshuva interested in full-time study in a traditional yeshiva environment. It has been located in the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic community in the multi-ethnic neighborhood of Crown Heights in Brooklyn, New York since inception. The yeshiva was first located within the Chabad world headquarters building at 770 Eastern Parkway before moving to its present location at 824 Eastern Parkway following growing enrolment.
The yeshiva is a branch of the National Committee for the Furtherance of Jewish Education (NCFJE). Rabbi Jacob J. Hecht, executive vice president and national director of the NCFJE, played a pivotal role in the yeshiva's development and was its dean. After his death the yeshiva was renamed as Yeshivas Kol Yaakov Yehudah - Hadar Hatorah Rabbinical Seminary in recognition of his efforts.{{fact|date=March 2021}}
The yeshiva curriculum includes Torah study, prayer, Jewish law, Hasidic teachings and Jewish values. Some of the courses are academically recognized and can be transferred to colleges for credits.{{fact|date=March 2021}}
The school accommodates students of all backgrounds, and with affiliation to all Jewish movements.{{fact|date=March 2021}}
Faculty
- Rosh Yeshiva: Rabbi Yaakov Goldberg.{{cite web |url=http://www.hadarhatorah.org/pages/faculty2.php|title=Faculty|access-date=25 December 2009}}
- Mashpia: Rabbi Yosef Boruch Wircberg.
- Mashgiach: Rabbi Yankl Osdoba.
Notable alumni
- Rabbi Yishaya Rose{{cite news|last1=Kamin-Meyer|first1=Tami|title=NYU Graduates Return to Campus as Jewish Leaders in Ontario|url=http://www.chabad.org/news/article_cdo/aid/966095/jewish/Former-Students-Open-New-Chabad-House.htm|agency=Chabad|date=August 17, 2009|quote=Following his sophomore year, Rose transferred to Hadar HaTorah, a Chabad-Lubavitch yeshiva in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn primarily for students who came from non-religious homes.}}
- Abe Saks{{cite news|last1=Zaklikowski|first1=Dovid|title=A Basketball Coach's Change of Career|url=http://www.chabad.org/therebbe/article_cdo/aid/526877/jewish/A-Coachs-Change-of-Career.htm|agency=Chabad-Lubavitch Media Center}}
- Matisyahu{{Cite web|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/matisyahu.html|title=Matisyahu}}
- Rabbi Leible Morrison{{Cite web|url=http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Sharing-the-essence-of-the-old-ways-9200687.php|title=Sharing the essence of the old ways|date=September 2, 2016}}
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External links
- [http://www.hadarhatorah.org/ Hadar Hatorah Yeshiva website]
- [http://www.hadarhatorah.org/pages/publications.php Published Reunion Journals by the Yeshiva] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120415060409/http://www.hadarhatorah.org/pages/publications.php |date=April 15, 2012 }}
- [http://www.chabadnews.us/Old%20Aricles/AT%2000014.htm Beginning history of Hadar Hatorah]
- [http://www.jewishaudio.org/hadar-hatorah/ Online audio library of classes given at Hadar Hatorah]
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