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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. A second campus, known as Yeshiva of Staten Island, is located in Staten Island, New York.
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...
- Andrew Silow-Carroll
Dec 16, 2021 · MTJ, often referred to simply as “The Yeshiva,” especially by people on the Lower East Side, is an iconic institution whose impact on the Orthodox-Jewish world has been powerful, ever since its opening in 1907 at 87 Eldridge Street, where it was called Talmud Torah Tifereth Jerusalem Yeshiva.
The Mesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem (MTJ) Yeshiva is one of the oldest yeshivas in New York City, and was one of the few yeshivas open in New York City in 1907 when it opened 87 Eldridge Street (and was called Talmud Torah Tifereth Jerusalem Yeshiva).
Sep 29, 2020 · M iles separate MTJ and Yeshiva of Staten Island geographically, but the two roshei yeshivah share an intimate brotherly bond. When Reb Moshe was niftar , Reb Reuven accompanied his father’s mitah to Eretz Yisrael, only starting shivah a day after his siblings.
Feb 18, 2021 · For many of these years he was a talmid of Rav Dovid. Even after the family relocated to Forest Hills, Queens, Shmutter traveled back to the yeshiva. He proudly shared that son Chezky Shmutter earned his semicha from MTJ.
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.”
