This article concerns the Rabbi, David Harris. For other people with the same name, see David Harris

David Harris

David Harris may refer to:In politics and government:* David B. Harris, former Canadian Security Intelligence Service planner and terrorism consultant* David Harris , the Executive Director of the American Jewish Committee...

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Dovid Harris is an Orthodox

Orthodox Judaism

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 rabbi

Rabbi

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 who as co-rosh yeshiva

Rosh yeshiva

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 (dean) heads the Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yisrael Meir HaKohen. (The other co-rosh yeshiva is Rabbi Akiva Grunblatt

Akiva Grunblatt

Akiva Grunblatt is an Orthodox rabbi who as co-rosh yeshiva heads the Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yisrael Meir HaKohen. in Flushing, New York. Before being appointed to his current position in 2000, he was a rosh yeshiva at Yeshiva Toras Chaim in Miami, Florida.-References:...

.) He is a prominent figure in the yeshiva

Yeshiva

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 world and speaks annually at the Torah Umesorah - National Society for Hebrew Day Schools

Torah Umesorah - National Society for Hebrew Day Schools

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 convention. He also serves on the Rabbinic advisory committee of Torah Umesorah

Life and Education

Rabbi Harris was born in the 1940s in Scranton Pennsylvania. He attended Scranton Hebrew Day school. After graduation, looking for a yeshiva high school he decided on the Rabbinical Seminary of America in Queens New York. It was really a monumental decision because Rabbi Harris has spent his entire life studying or working for the Yeshiva and its affiliates. Rabbi Harris graduated from high school and continued on in the Yeshiva's post-high school program. In 1964 Rabbi Harris along with the entire Yeshiva traveled to Israel to study. In 1968 Rabbi Harris returned to Israel along with the entire Yeshiva. He would remain behind in 1969 to help strengthen the Israel branch. Rabbi Harris would complete his studies at the Yeshiva in 1973 after receiving his rabbinic ordination.

Career

In 1974 he co-founded the school's first external affiliate branch, the Talmudical Institute of Upstate New York, together with Rabbi Menachem Davidowitz.

In the Fall of 1988, he also founded Mesivta Tiferes Yisroel, another branch of the Chofetz Chaim Network.

See also

• Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yisrael Meir HaKohen
• Chofetz Chaim (disambiguation)
  Chofetz Chaim (disambiguation)
  Chofetz Chaim may refer to:*Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan.*Chofetz Chaim, a book written by him on the Jewish laws regarding harmful speech.*Hafetz Haim, a kibbutz in Israel.-Institutions:...
  
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• Mesivta Tiferes Yisroel
  Mesivta Tiferes Yisroel
  Yeshiva Tiferes Yisroel is an Orthodox yeshiva in the Midwood section of Brooklyn, New York.It was founded in 1988 by Rabbi David Harris, Rabbi Zvi Turk, and Rabbi Yehuda Jacobson...
  
   (an affiliate school).
• Talmudical Institute of Upstate New York (an affiliate school).
• Rabbi Binyomin Luban
  Binyomin Luban
  Rabbi Binyomin Luban is the Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Toras Chaim in North Miami Beach, Florida-Life and Education:Rabbi Luban was born and raised in Queens, New York. His brother is Rabbi Yaakov Luban, the rabbinic coordinator of the Orthodox Union's Kashruth division. He attended the flagship high...
  
   (A different CC Rabbi)