Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz
1886 CE–1948 CE · Acharonim · Brooklyn (NY)
Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz served as principal and rosh yeshivah of Yeshiva Torah Vodaath in Brooklyn, transforming it into a leading American institution with the addition of a high school in 1926 and a postgraduate program. He founded Torah Umesorah in 1944, a national organization that established a network of Orthodox day schools across the United States. His educational approach emphasized outreach and Torah im Derech Eretz, influencing the development of modern American Orthodoxy.
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Born to a Hasidic family of Rabbi Moshe and Bas-Sheva Mendlowitz. His mother died when he was 10, after which he and his father moved to Rimanov.
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