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Shai Held
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “rosh yeshiva”. Today it says “president”.
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Shai Held (born 1971) is a rosh yeshiva (Rabbinic dean) and Chair in Jewish Thought at Mechon Hadar . He holds a PhD in religion from Harvard University .1
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “rosh yeshiva”. Today it says “president”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then
rosh yeshiva
Now
president
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