Shoreshthe drift report · all case files
Case file

Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin

In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “major orthodox judaism yeshiva located in brooklyn”. Today it says “american haredi”.
Measured, not asserted. Every count, date and revision on this page was taken from Wikipedia's own history and checked against the live article. The words quoted are theirs.
Machine-checked against the full current article on 2026-08-02. In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “major orthodox judaism yeshiva located in brooklyn”. Today it says “american haredi”.
We saved snapshots of this article over twenty years; you are reading the 2005 one. Red dashes: removed from Wikipedia since. Pale dots: rewritten; the numbered note shows what it says now. 1 tap a number or a side note to jump between them
The opening as it read in 2005

Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin (also known as Mesivta Rabbi Chaim Berlin ) ( MYRCB ) or as Chaim Berlin , is a major Orthodox Judaism yeshiva located in Brooklyn, New York .1 Established in 1904 it is the oldest yeshiva to be founded in Brooklyn.2 It was named for Rabbi Chaim Berlin (rabbi) , the chief rabbi of Moscow who had moved to Jerusalem and was one of its leading rabbis at the time of his passing.3 It is primarily an American, Lithuanian-style Talmudic Haredi Judaism but non- Hasidic yeshiva. It presently has an enrollment of close to two thousand students ranging from its elementary division to its post high school beit medrash and kollel (known as Kollel Gur Aryeh ) divisions. Many of its graduates fill important positions in Orthodox educational institutions in the United States. Its most famous rosh yeshiva (dean) was Rabbi Yitzchok Hutner ( 1906 - 1980 ) who was its head from 1936 until his passing in 1980 . It has a branch in Jerusalem , also established by Rabbi Hutner, known as Yeshiva Pachad Yitzchok ( "Fear of Isaac" ) named for Rabbi Hutner's books on Jewish Torah thought. v t e4

This is Wikipedia's own text, saved in our repository. Their copy of it is revision 16397345.
Today
In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “major orthodox judaism yeshiva located in brooklyn”. Today it says “american haredi”. Read the current article and compare.
2005201020152020Oct '232025
Counts in the opening at each snapshot. Green: the word gained ground. Red: it was cut. Grey: no change.

What Wikipedia says this is

Every article opens by defining its subject. This one was redefined between 2005 and 2025.

Then

major orthodox judaism yeshiva located in brooklyn

Now

american haredi

Struck red text is no longer in the article; dotted amber text was rewritten. Every revision id links to Wikipedia's copy; the text shown is our own saved copy. Data: /data. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA; quoted for the record; not affiliated with Wikipedia.

← back to the drift report