Yeshiva of South Shore

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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]

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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. ^ a b 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.
  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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