Wikipedia's first sentence called it “rabbi and rosh yeshiva”. Today it says “austrian-born british orthodox rabbi and rosh yeshiva in london”.
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Elyakim Schlesinger ( ) born September 1921) of London is a rabbi and rosh yeshiva .1 He is an international authority and serves as the President, Chairman , and Head of the Rabbinical Board of the Committee for the Preservation of Jewish Cemeteries in Europe. He is a grandson of Moreinu Yaakov Rosenheim, one of the founders of Agudath Israel. He was born in Vienna in September 1921 and emigrated to Israel with his family in the late 1930's. He is a son in law of Rabbi Moshe Blau. He was very close to Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky, the Chazon Ish, and the Brisker Rav. Shortly sfter his marriage, in around 1947, he moved to London, England.2 He then opened a yeshiva named Yeshivas Rama and he still delivers lectures to its students. His wife died in 2019 after 74 years of marriage. "Rabbis in Parliament //A group of senior rabbanim and askanim in England went to an unprecedented and historic meeting in the Houses of Parliament to meet senior government ministers and parliamentary officials, amidst the ongoing chinuch crisis that endangers the future of chinuch in the UK" .3
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The opening as it stood in 2020
Elyakim Schlesinger ( ) of London is a rabbi and rosh yeshiva . He is an international authority and serves as the President, Chairman , and Head of the Rabbinical Board of the Committee for the Preservation of Jewish Cemeteries in Europe. "Rabbis in Parliament // A group of senior rabbanim and askanim in England went to an unprecedented and historic meeting in the Houses of Parliament to meet senior government ministers and parliamentary officials, amidst the ongoing chinuch crisis that endangers the future of chinuch in the UK" .
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Elyakim Schlesinger ( Yiddish : אליקים שלעזינגער ), born 1921, is a rabbi and rosh yeshiva in London. He is an international authority and serves as the President, Chairman , and Head of the Rabbinical Board of the Committee for the Preservation of Jewish Cemeteries in Europe. He is a grandson of Moreinu Yaakov Rosenheim , one of the founders of World Agudath Israel . Schlesinger was born in Vienna in September 1921 and emigrated to Israel with his family in the late 1930s. He is a son-in-law of Rabbi Moshe Blau. He was very close to Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky , Rabbi Avraham Yeshaya Karelitz (the Chazon Ish), and the Brisker Rav .In around 1947, shortly after his marriage, he moved to London, England. He then opened a yeshiva named Yeshivas Rama and he still delivers lectures to its students. His wife died in 2019 after 74 years of marriage.
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rabbi and rosh yeshiva
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austrian-born british orthodox rabbi and rosh yeshiva in london
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