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Rabbi Mordechai Goldstein, OBM
December 2, 2016 / Kislev 2, 5777
Rabbi Mordechai Goldstein, an early activist of the Teshuva movement who founded the Diaspora Yeshiva in Israel and brother of Mrs. Sybil Gitlin of Crown Heights, passed away.
By Jewish Press and COLlive
Rabbi Mordechai Goldstein, dean of the Diaspora Yeshiva on Mt. Zion, Jerusalem, passed away Thursday following a debilitating illness that had him confined to a wheelchair in recent years.
He was 85.
Rabbi Goldstein, an alumnus of the Chofetz Chaim Yeshiva in Queens, and a colleague of the late Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, was an early activist of the Teshuva (return) movement, and for some 50 years his was among the primary yeshivas for returnees.
Rabbi Goldstein founded The Diaspora Yeshiva in 1965, in western Jerusalem, attracting young, largely secular followers from Israel and the US. Two years later, after the 1967 Six Day War, the yeshiva moved to the liberated Mt. Zion.
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