Yaakov Feitman

He received rabbinical ordination from rabbis Moshe Feinstein and Yitzchak Hutner.{{cite web |url=http://www.koshertravelinfo.com/passover_2008/smilow_family.html |title=Smilow Family Presents Pesach 2008, Cancun, Mexico |access-date=2009-07-22 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090605235319/http://www.koshertravelinfo.com/passover_2008/smilow_family.html |archive-date=2009-06-05 }}

Feitman is a past president of the Young Israel Council of Rabbis, has been a Scholar-in-Residence and in Yarchei Kallah [http://www.j-c-r.org/programs.html programs] all over the world and spoken at OU, Torah Umesorah and Agudah conventions.{{cite web |url=http://www.ou.org/conferences/convention/2001/speakers.htm |title=Orthodox Union Biennial National Convention to Chart New Course - OU.ORG |access-date=2009-07-22 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090616122806/http://www.ou.org/conferences/convention/2001/speakers.htm |archive-date=2009-06-16 }}

Presently the rabbi of the "Red Shul", Kehillas Bais Yehuda Tzvi in Cedarhurst, New York, he has held pulpits in Cleveland, Ohio and Teaneck, NJ.

In 1983, moved from Brooklyn to become the rabbi of Young Israel of Cleveland,{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times

|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/04/16/nyregion/jews-debate-appropriateness-of-updating-seders.html

|title=Jews Debate Appropriateness Of Updating Seders

|author=Ari L. Goldman |date=April 16, 1984}} which at the time {{page needed|date=October 2016}} had congregations in Cleveland Heights and South Euclid. Feitman divided his time between and duties between the two 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.[http://www.jewishworldreview.com/010198/weintrob.html An article] in the Jan. 12, 1998 issue of Jewish World Review described the area as a "predominantly Jewish Cleveland suburb."

Those years involved not only religious matters but dealing with extensive problems regarding

land use and

[http://www.sconet.state.oh.us/rod/docs/pdf/8/2006/2006-ohio-4379.pdf discrimination] court case 2006-Ohio-4379; earlier the local ADL and Zoning.

.and dealing with opposition from fellow Jews: "If you want to move in, move in... But when you bring all the baggage with you -- two synagogues, the mikvah, the school, the whole shtick -- you're taking over." https://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/13/magazine/the-jewish-tipping-point.html&pagewanted=print

• {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20030918030056/http://www.tzemachdovid.org/gedolim/jo/tpersonality/rogatchover.html The Rogatchover Gaon]}} (biography)
• "The Halachic Process" (recording) Halakha#Sources and process
• "Daas Torah: Tapping the Source of Eternal Wisdom". In: Torah Lives, ed. Nisson Wolpin. Brooklyn, NY: Mesorah Publications, 1995. Pg ix-xxviii. {{ISBN|0-89906-319-5}}.
• "The invention of religion" pp. 67–68 ({{ISBN|0-8135-3093-8}}) by Derek R. Peterson & Darren R. Walhof
• Out of the Iron Furnace (Shengold Publishing, {{ISBN|0-88400-040-0}}), by Rabbi Eliezer Ben-David, translated into English and adapted by Rabbi Yaakov Feitman
• a Eulogy he wrote for Rabbi Mordechai Gifter for Yated Neeman {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20080516145935/http://www.tzemachdovid.org/Musar/ravgifter.html]}}
• an article written for Mishpacha regarding the decades since the passing of Rabbi Yitzchok Hutner [https://mishpacha.com/a-life-of-majesty-and-mystery-an-appreciation-of-rav-yitzchok-hutner/]{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2010-11-24 |title=A Life of Majesty and Mystery: An Appreciation of Rav Yitzchok Hutner - Mishpacha Magazine |url=https://mishpacha.com/a-life-of-majesty-and-mystery-an-appreciation-of-rav-yitzchok-hutner/ |access-date=2023-07-18 |language=en-US}}
• Wrote articles for Mishpacha Magazine{{Cite web |title=feitman - Mishpacha Magazine |url=https://mishpacha.com/?submit=&s=feitman&search_param=post |access-date=2024-07-05 |language=en-US}}
• Writes weekly articles in Yated Neeman{{Cite web |title=Rav Yaakov Feitman, Author at Yated.com |url=https://yated.com/author/rav-yaakov-feitman/ |access-date=2024-07-05 |website=Yated.com |language=en-US}}
• Blueprints: Torah views of the world and events around us ({{ISBN|1-4226-2614-8}}): Mesorah Publications{{Cite web|title=Blueprints ISBN|url=https://isbnsearch.org/isbn/9781422626146}}
• Days of Reflection, Days of Joy Discovering the Gifts of Elul, the Yamim Noraim and Succos({{ISBN|1-4226-3909-6}}): Mesorah Publications{{Cite web|title=Days of Reflection, Days of Joy ISBN|url=https://isbnsearch.org/isbn/9781422639092}}

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• {{Official website|http://www.kbyt.org/}} (KBYT: Kehillas Bais Yehuda Tzvi, Rabbi: Yaakov Feitman)

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