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Yeshiva of Far Rockaway
Derech Ayson Rabbinical Seminary
יְשִׁיבָה דֶרֶךְ אֵיתָןAddress 802 Hicksville Rd.
Far Rockaway, New York, 11691
United StatesCoordinates 40°36′01″N 73°44′38″W / 40.6003°N 73.7438°WCoordinates: 40°36′01″N 73°44′38″W / 40.6003°N 73.7438°W Information Religious affiliation(s) Judaism Denomination Haredi Founder Rabbi Nachman Bulman, Rabbi Yechiel Yitzchok Perr CEEB Code 331892 Principal Rabbi Aaron M. Brafman Head of school Rabbi Yechiel Yitzchok Perr Grades 9-12, seminary Gender Male 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 Haredi yeshiva located on 802 Hicksville Road, Far Rockaway, Queens in New York City. It comprises a high school and beis medrash, or seminary. 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 intense and dynamic Talmudic studies, and for the rosh yeshiva's musar lectures in the Novardok tradition.
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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]
Zoning suit
On 25 May 1973 the Yeshiva of Far Rockaway was sued by Stanley A. Ginsberg for violating the residential covenant of the neighborhood by establishing its yeshiva building on a non-commercial block in 1971. Dr. Ginsberg himself operated a medical office at his home on the same block. The Supreme Court of Queens County ruled in favor of the plaintiff, but questioned whether the covenant was enforceable.[2] The case was taken to the New York Court of Appeals on 8 July 1974[3] and heard on 15 January 1975; a decision was made on 27 February 1975 in favor of the yeshiva.[4]
Notable alumni
- Rabbis Azriel Brown and Yaakov Mayer, founders and roshei yeshiva of Yeshiva Gedola of Carteret
- Ari Goldwag, Jewish recording artist
- Rabbi Daniel Kalish, Menahel of Yeshiva Gedolah Ateres Shmuel of Greater Waterbury
References
- Notes
- ^ Bernstein, Dovid (7 February 2009). "Yeshiva of Far Rockaway Dinner Tonight, Ben Brafman to MC". matzav.com. http://matzav.com/yeshiva-of-far-rockaway-dinner-tonight-ben-brafman-to-mc. Retrieved 25 August 2011.
- ^ "GINSBERG v. YESHIVA OF FAR ROCKAWAY – 74 Misc.2d 391 (1973)". leagle.com. http://www.leagle.com/xmlResult.aspx?xmldoc=197346574Misc2d391_1364.xml&docbase=CSLWAR1-1950-1985. Retrieved 25 August 2011.
- ^ "GINSBERG v. YESHIVA OF FAR ROCKAWAY – 45 A.D.2d 334 (1974)". leagle.com. http://www.leagle.com/xmlResult.aspx?xmldoc=197437945AD2d334_1296.xml&docbase=CSLWAR1-1950-1985. Retrieved 25 August 2011.
- ^ "GINSBERG v. YESHIVA OF FAR ROCKAWAY – 36 N.Y.2d 706 (1975)". leagle.com. http://www.leagle.com/xmlResult.aspx?xmldoc=197574236NY2d706_1613.xml&docbase=CSLWAR1-1950-1985. Retrieved 25 August 2011.
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