Yeshiva of Cape Town
The Yeshiva of Cape Town is a kollel and yeshiva established in 1994. Its full title is "The Rabbi Cyril and Ann Harris Yeshiva of Cape Town", named for the late Chief Rabbi. It is based in the Green and Sea Point Hebrew Congregation, in the suburb of Sea Point, Cape Town.
The Yeshiva's ideology is
Centrist Orthodox. It was previously headed by Rabbi Sam Thurgood, Rabbi Eitan Bendavid, Rabbi Moshe Ordman, Rabbi Nachum Romm, Rabbi Yossi Slotnik and Rabbi Ori Einhorn, and originally by Rabbi Jonathan Glass [1] and Moshe Kornblum [2]. It served as the blueprint for the Torah MiTzion global Kollel initiative, now operating in some 40 cities. The Bachurim (students) of the Yeshiva come from Israel for a period of 11 months, mainly from hesder
yeshivot.
The Yeshiva provides "a depth and breadth of Torah study for the entire Cape Town community" [3]. It operates a Bnei Akiva South Africa summer camp.
See also
- Jewish education in South Africa under History of the Jews in South AfricaThe first External Rosh Yeshiva was Rabbi Shmuel Herschler.
- Orthodox yeshivas in South Africa
- Kollel Bet Mordechai
External links and references
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