Yeshiva Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch (YRSRH, also known as Breuer's, after its creator) was founded in

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in 1944, as a means of reestablishing the

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Jewish community of

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in the United States. The school, founded by Rabbi

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, is run according to the philosophy of Rabbi Breuer's grandfather, Rabbi

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. It is located in the

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neighborhood of Washington Heights. The institution has several divisions, including separate elementary, middle and high schools for boys and girls, and post high school Talmudic academy. It also maintained The "Rika Breuer Teacher's Seminary" for many years, which was discontinued in 2004; it was headed by Rabbi Joseph Elias.hamodia.com
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Khal Adath Jeshurun Khal Adath Jeshurun (KAJ) is an Orthodox German Jewish Ashkenazi congregation in the Washington Heights neighborhood, in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It has an affiliated synagogue in the heavily Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Mons ...

, which is an Orthodox kehilla that serves the mostly

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community of Washington Heights and Fort Tryon in upper Manhattan.

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German Wikipedia

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