The Gaon Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, dean of Mesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem of America has announced here a $1 million emergency drive to acquire nine acres on the New York City borough of Staten Island for expansion of his rabbinical seminary, one of America’s oldest. The new acreage, added to the yeshiva’s present four-story building, would give Mesivtha Tifereth the largest contiguous campus of any Jewish school in the New York metropolitan area. Rabbi Feinstein said he hoped the new campus will be ready for use by September, when the new semester begins. “Research in and application of the values and teachings of Talmudic Law,” he said, “can provide the remedy and solutions to the present-day ills of society, which, although adequately catalogued and identified by the various sciences, appear to be immune to scientific solutions.” The rabbi is also president of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada, chairman of the Council of Sages, chairman of Torah Schools for Israel, a leader of a number of other organizations and an authority on halacha.
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