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Apr 1, 2022 · MTJ is located on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, a neighborhood that once was the heart of Jewish life in America but has since the mid-twentieth century witnessed the shuttering of most of its Jewish institutions and a rapid decline of its Jewish population.
Mesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem (MTJ) (Hebrew: מתיבתא תפארת ירושלים, Mesivta Tiferet Yerushaláyim) is a yeshiva in the Lower East Side of New York City. One of the oldest yeshivas in the city, MTJ was once led by Moshe Feinstein .
Sep 23, 2020 · You describe MTJ as a yeshiva without a large community surrounding it, unlike the major yeshivas in Lakewood, NJ, or Rockland County that are the center of booming Orthodox communities. How did...
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World Congress of Mountain Jews (WCMJ) is an active, international non-governmental organization that provides opportunities for Mountain Jews, who are dispersed worldwide. WCMJ seeks to bring together the Mountain Jew population to maintain and share traditions and cultural values through cooperation with international society.
Oct 7, 2020 · In 2012, Jonathan Boyarin, the Mann Professor of Modern Jewish Studies, spent a year of academic leave studying Torah at Mesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem (MTJ), New York’s oldest institution of rabbinic learning. He describes his experience in “Yeshiva Days: Learning on the Lower East Side.”.
Mar 18, 2021 · An Anthropologist Goes to Yeshiva - Tablet Magazine. Jonathan Boyarin meditates on what can be gained from studying Jewish tradition. A scene from the author’s days studying at Mesivtha Tifereth...
The sense that the community is responsible for the physical and communal needs of its members has manifested itself in different ways throughout Jewish history. In late antiquity and in the medieval period, many Jewish communities were semi-autonomous.
