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Funeral services were field Sunday for Rabbi Morris Besdin, director of the James Striar School of General Jewish Studies at Yeshiva University for 25 years and pioneer in the educational direction of the Baal Teshuvah (Jewish retumee) movement. He died last Saturday at the age of 69. Bom in Poland in 1913, Besdin come to […]https://www.jta.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/jta-long-logo-bw.jpg600315