Yeshivas Kaminetz (also known as ''Kaminetz Yeshiva'') was founded 1945 in Jerusalem by a son and son-in-law of

Boruch Ber Leibowitz Boruch Ber Leibowitz ( yi, ברוך בער לייבאוויץ he, רב ברוך דוב ליבוביץ, Boruch Dov Libovitz; 1862 – November 17, 1939, known as Reb Boruch Ber, was a rabbi famed for his Talmudic lectures, particularly in that ...

as is a transplant of

Yeshivas Knesses Beis Yitzchak-Kaminetz Yeshivas Knesses Beis Yitzchak was an Orthodox Jewish yeshiva, founded in Slabodka on the outskirts of Kaunas, Lithuania (then ruled by the Russian Empire), in 1897. The yeshiva later moved to Kamyenyets, then part of Poland, and currently i ...

History

Leibowitz was appointed head of ''Knesses Beis Yitzchak'' in 1904. During and after World War I it relocated more than once, including to '' Kaminetz'' in 1926. Leibowitz headed this yeshiva until his death in 1939. The yeshiva's students dispersed in four groups during World War II. Leibowitz's son-in-law Rabbi Moshe Bernstein, along with his brother-in-law Rabbi Yaakov Moshe Leibowitz, reestablished the school in Jerusalem in 1945.

Yitzchok Scheiner Rabbi Yitzchok Scheiner (November 5, 1922 – January 31, 2021) was an Israeli–American rabbi who was the '' rosh yeshiva'' of the Kamenitz yeshiva of Jerusalem. Early life and education He was born in May 1922 in Pittsburgh to immigrants fro ...

, grandson-in-law to Boruch Ber,his wife, Esther Leah, who died in 2007, was Bernsteins's daughter and a granddaughter of

was their successor until his own death in 2021.

References

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