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Moshe Meiselman

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “rosh yeshiva of yeshivas toras moshe”. Today it says “american-born orthodox rabbi and rosh yeshiva”.
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Moshe Meiselman is the rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Toras Moshe , a small American yeshiva in Jerusalem , a former principal of Yeshiva University High Schools of Los Angeles , and the author of Jewish Women in Jewish Law. A student of Dr.1 Donald Anderson, he received a doctorate in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1967 for his thesis The Operation Ring for Connective K-Theory . He is a son-in-law of the previous Ziditshoiver Rebbe of Chicago (Rabbi Avrohom Eichenstein).2 His mother, Shulamit Soloveitchik Meiselman, was the author of the widely acclaimed " The Soloveitchik Heritage: A Daughter's Memoir ".3

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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “rosh yeshiva of yeshivas toras moshe”. Today it says “american-born orthodox rabbi and rosh yeshiva”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then

rosh yeshiva of yeshivas toras moshe

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american-born orthodox rabbi and rosh yeshiva

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