Yeshiva of Far Rockaway

Yeshiva of Far Rockaway
Derech Ayson Rabbinical Seminary
יְשִׁיבָה דֶרֶךְ אֵיתָן
Address
802 Hicksville Rd.
Far Rockaway, Queens, New York 11691
United States
Coordinates 40°36′01″N 73°44′38″W / 40.6003°N 73.7438°W / 40.6003; -73.7438Coordinates: 40°36′01″N 73°44′38″W / 40.6003°N 73.7438°W / 40.6003; -73.7438
Information
Religious affiliation(s) Judaism
Founder Rabbi Nachman Bulman, Rabbi Yechiel Yitzchok Perr
CEEB code 331892
Principal Rabbi Eli Goldgrab
Head of school Rabbi Yechiel Yitzchok Perr
Grades 9-12, seminary
Gender Male
Enrollment 160
Language English
Website http://www.yofr.org

Yeshiva of Far Rockaway (also known as Yeshiva Derech Ayson (Hebrew: יְשִׁיבָה דֶרֶךְ אֵיתָן‬) and Derech Ayson Rabbinical Seminary) is a yeshiva located at 802 Hicksville Road, Far Rockaway, Queens in New York City. It comprises a high school, beis medrash, and Kollel. The school was founded by the current rosh yeshiva, Rabbi Yechiel Yitzchok Perr, and by the late Rabbi Nachman Bulman. It is reputed for its intensive Talmudic studies, and for the rosh yeshiva's musar lectures in the Novardok tradition.

History

Rabbi Perr, an alumnus of Yeshiva Beis Yosef-Novardok in Brooklyn, Beth Medrash Govoha, the Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia, and Mesivta Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin, founded the Yeshiva of Far Rockaway in 1969. The name of the yeshiva, Derech Ayson, comes from the sefer by Rabbi Avraham Yoffen of Novardok.[1]

Rebbeim

Rabbi Mordechai Miller (Associate Menahel) Rabbi Daniel Nekritz (Mashgiach) Rabbi Chaim Shlomo Metz (Ninth Grade) Rabbi Avi Weller (Tenth Grade) Rabbi Yehoshua Kalish (Eleventh Grade) Rabbi Aharon Perr (Eleventh Grade) Rabbi Moshe Perr (Twelfth Grade) Rabbi Yoel Genuth (Twelfth Grade) Rabbi Eli Goldgrab (English Prinicpal)

Kollel Ner Rochel Leah

The yeshiva also has a kollel where Talmudic studies are continued after marriage.

Notable alumni

  • Rabbis Azriel Brown and Yaakov Mayer, founders and roshei yeshiva of Yeshiva Gedola of Carteret
  • Ari Goldwag, Jewish recording artist, songwriter, and producer
  • Rabbi Avi Weller, current 10th grade rebbe
  • Rabbi Akevy Greenblatt, principal of Ohr Chadash Academy of Baltimore[2]
  • Rabbi Avi Rosner, rebbi at Yeshivat Ohr Yerushalayim[3]
  • Rabbi Yisrael Gewirtz, the Mussar Gaon of YFR.
  • Rabbi Yitzchok Asher Gordon, Night Seder Meishiv/Office.

More Information

For more information or to register visit http://www.yofr.org.

References

  1. ↑ Bernstein, Dovid (February 7, 2009). "Yeshiva of Far Rockaway Dinner Tonight, Ben Brafman to MC". matzav.com. Retrieved August 25, 2011.
  2. ↑ "New Principal of OCA". Ohr Chadash Academy. 2012. Retrieved 24 June 2012.
  3. ↑ "Faculty". Yeshivat Ohr Yerushalayim. Retrieved 24 June 2012.


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