Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz

Years: 1886–1948

Primary city: Brooklyn

Biography

Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz served as principal and Rosh Yeshiva 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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