The Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies is a Canadian

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. It is accredited by the Ontario

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as a

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and has sovereignty to award bachelor's, master's, and doctorate degrees in

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and

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History

In 1970 a group of ten families from the BMG Institute for Advanced Learning of

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moved to Toronto and founded the Toronto Kollel. The founders include Rav Shlomo Eliyahu Miller, the Rosh Kollel of the Kollel Avreichim Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies in Toronto, and head of its Beis Din (rabbinical court) and Rav Yaakov Hirschman. Known previously as the Institute for Advanced Talmudic Study - Kollel Avreichim, it was incorporated by letters patent dated October 9, 1970, as an institution of higher learning in theology, religious education, scholarship, and research.

Facility

The building houses the 3,000-square-foot Bais Medrash, classrooms, three book libraries, a CD library, two computer online libraries, the

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computer resource library, the Kol Halashon online Lecture library, meeting rooms, a kitchen, and a dining room. The Ladies Auxiliary maintains the Weinstock Memorial Library which is open to the public and runs a series of community lectures.

The New Campus

During the 50th Anniversary Dinner (which took place on November 28, 2022, at The Embassy Grand Convention Center), The Chairman Mr. Ben Friedman Toronto, announced the purchase of a new apartment building located on Fraserwood Avenue, which will be named The Shimon Stern Residence. The new building will allow the institution to expand their scholars base and host new families who will join the Kollel in the future. In addition, Mr. Ben Friedman also presented a 3d rendering of the new Bais Medrash to be built on Coldstream Avenue. The new building will have more study halls, plenty of parking and a state of the art library.

Kollel Toronto

Kollel Toronto is an institution of learning consisting of a core group of scholars who are engaged in full-time Torah study at an advanced level—headed by Roshei Kollel, Rav Shlomo Miller שליט"א* and Rav Yaakov Hirschman שליט"א. *(שליט"א is pronounced "shehletah"; it is an acronym for שיחיה לימים טובים ארוכים, literally that he should live to good long days; used as an honorific after a living rabbi's name.)

Programs

* diplomas and certificates * Bachelor of Judaics *

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(BTL) * Master of Judaics * Master of Talmudic Law * Doctor of Philosophy in Judaics * Doctor of Philosophy in Talmudic Law

Notable alumni

Rabbis in Toronto

* Rabbi Yacov Shalom Felder
Rabbi of Shomrei Shabbos Synagogue
* Rabbi Mordechai Kanner, Cong. Heichal Kol Yaakov * Rabbi Uri Kaufman
Cong. Aguda South Anshe Kielce
* Rabbi Chaim Dovid Kulik, Cong. Zichron Yitzchok * Rabbi Mitch Mandel, Director of

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Toronto * Rabbi David Pam
Cong. Zichron Shneur
* Rabbi Mordechai Scheiner,

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* Rabbi Rafael Shmulewitz,

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* Rabbi Yehuda Oppenheimer
Marlee Ave. Shul
* Rabbi Aberbach, New York * Rabbi Blitz, Detroit, MI * Rabbi Davis, Founder of

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* Rabbi Drillman, New York * Rabbi Fishman, Principal of

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* Rabbi Frankel, New York * Rabbi Fuerst, Lakewood, NJ * Rabbi Glezerman, Lakewood, NJ * Rabbi Gordon, New York * Rabbi Herskowitz, Lakewood, NJ * Rabbi Horowitz, Kiryat Sefer, Israel * Rabbi Jundef, Lakewood, NJ * Rabbi Kovitz, New York * Rabbi Kraminer, New York * Rabbi Kupfer, Executive Director of

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Los Angeles * Rabbi Marcus, Buffalo, New York List of Young Israel Synagogues#:~:text=Rabbi Eliezer Marcus * Rabbi Muller, Kollel Avrohom Dovid, Monsey, NY * Rabbi Nojovits, Lakewood, NJ * Rabbi Plotnik, Bais Yaakov Lakewood * Rabbi Rosen, Southfield, Michigan * Rabbi Rubin, Queens, New York * Rabbi Strassfeld, Englewood, NJ * Rabbi Sauer, New York * Rabbi Sekula, Lakewood, NJ * Rabbi Tanenbaum, Seattle, Washington * Rabbi Weissman, Bene Berak, Israel * Rabbi Weinberg, New York * Rabbi Zuckerman, Detroit, MI

References

External links

* {{authority control Education in Toronto Orthodox yeshivas in Canada Universities and colleges in Toronto Private universities and colleges in Canada 1997 establishments in Ontario Educational institutions established in 1997