Yad Yisroel

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Yad Yisroel

Founded	1990
Headquarters	Brooklyn, New York U.S.
Founder(s)	Stoliner Rebbe
Key people	Rabbi Yochonon Berman, Rabbi Moshe Fhima, Rabbi Yaakov Shteireman, Rabbi Shmuel Dishon
URL	http://yadyisroel.com, http://yadyisroel.org

The Yad Yisroel is a not for profit 501(C)(3) organization founded by the Stoliner rebbe in 1990 to work with Jews from the former Soviet Union. It has established community projects and schools in Kyiv, Lvov, Minsk, Pinsk and .

Yad Yisroel in Pinsk[]

Yad Yisroel, is a registered non-profit organization in the US, England, Israel and the former Soviet Union.^[1]

In April 1992, as an emissary of Stolin, Rabbi Yochonon Berman traveled to Pinsk to conduct a seder.

In 2000, at Berman's suggestion, Yad Yisroel sent Moshe Fhima, who had been working for Yad Yisroel in Kyiv at the Jewish Boarding School, to Pinsk.

Yad Yisroel established two boarding schools, a yeshiva,a kosher store, a mikva, and Chesed aid for the elderly in Pinsk.

Education[]

The schools, with dormitories on campus, combine Jewish studies and a general secular high school curriculum.

Beis Aharon Boys' School[]

Limudei Kodesh

Classes cover all levels from introductory level Judaism up to Mishna and Gemara. Full-time counselors, a doctor and a psychologist are on staff.

Beis Aharon Bielski Campus

Beis Aharon Bielski School and Orphanage in Pinsk, Belarus

The 5070 square meter campus includes an educational wing, a residence and an orphanage, an auditorium, a kindergarten, a recreational facility, and a kitchen and dining hall. It was inaugurated on Tuesday, October 28, 2014.

Beis Aharon Girls' School[]

Students of Beis Aharon Girls School celebrate Hanukkah in Pinsk, 2015

Limudei Kodesh

There are Beis Aharon Girls Schools in England, USA, Canada, Belarus and Israel.

Summer Camps[]

Yad Yisroel in Pinsk has organized educational summer camps in Belarus.

Timeline[]

1990 Kyiv: Hebrew Day School is begun - peak enrolment 600 students. In addition: Yearly summer camps are created - the critical period to reach children and their parents for future scholastic enrolment

Establishment of Magen Avot, the social welfare program serving 10’000 homebound and elderly in 52 cities of the Ukraine, subsequently offered to the JDC. The program is still very active.

Shechita established in Kyiv - distribution of kosher meat throughout the FSU.

1991 Minsk: Yad Yisroel Shaliach Rabbi Yitzchok Wolpin in Minsk, revival of the Jewish Community. Mikva built in Lvov, Ukraine

1992 Rabbi Yochonon Berman arrives in Pinsk

1993 Sunday schools are established in various smaller cities.

1994 Lvov: Hebrew Day School established- 140 students

1995 Chmelnitsky: re-establishing Jewish Community - Sunday school

1995 Pinsk: Rabbi Yochonon Berman succeeds in getting back the original Karlin synagogue from the local officials.

1996 New Mikva built in Kyiv, Ukraine. Kyiv: Jewish Boarding School for homeless children and teenagers is founded

2000: Pinsk, Belarus: Jewish School and Boarding School for boys by Rabbi Moshe Fhima

2001: Pinsk, Belarus: Jewish School and Boarding School for girls

2003 Completion of Girls School campus in Pinsk. Completion of renovations of The Beis Aharon Shul in Pinsk.

2004 Plot of land for the boys school campus purchased.

2005 Finished the restoration of the Reb Aharon Synagogue in Pinsk.

2006 Plans completed to build new boys school campus. Yeshivas Pe'er Yisroel established

2007 Synagogue of Reb Aharon HaGadol purchased and prepared for refurbishment. Building bought to house bochurims dormitory

2008 Construction begun on Boys School Campus. Renovation begun on Dormitory Building

2011 Record number of kids in Yad Yisroel Camp

2014 Grand opening of Beis Aharon Bielski School in Pinsk^[2]

2015 Record number of students in Yeshiva High School in Pinsk

2015 The Inauguration of Bielski Campsite ^[3]

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