Samuel Belkin
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Samuel Belkin was an American rabbi and Torah scholar who was the second President of Yeshiva University. He is credited with leading Yeshiva University through a period of substantial expansion.
Belkin in 1938
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Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary is the rabbinical seminary of Yeshiva University. It is located along Amsterdam Avenue in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.
Samuel Belkin
…Halakah." He then joined the faculty of Yeshiva College, New York, where he taught Greek. He became a full professor in 1940 and was appointed dean of its Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) the same year. In 1943, Belkin was named president of the college. Under his guidance, the institution expanded to become Yeshiva University…
Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor, namesake of the Seminary