Yeshivat Nesher Hagadol

  | FOR THE RECORD | ALL CREDIT GOES TO DOVI SAFIER, YEHUDA GEBERER  & THE MISHPACHA  By  Dovi Safier  and  Yehuda Geberer   | JULY 1, 2020 His dream was to build a living monument to the litvish Torah world decimated in the Holocaust   Title: “The Greatest Yeshivah Faculty of All Time?” Location: Ponevezh Yeshivah, Bnei Brak, Israel Document: Ponevezh Yeshivah Fundraising Brochure Time: 1957   T he vision of the great Ponevezher Rav, Rav Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman, was to rebuild a lost world. He assembled an unparalleled staff of Torah greats under one roof: Rav Shmuel Rozovsky brought the distinct learning style of Rav Shimon Shkop; Rav Dovid Povarsky came with the legacy of the Mir in Poland; Rav Chatzkel Levenstein supplied the towering mussar of Kelm; and Rav Shach added his experience from Kletzk. And that’s just the senior staff! The junior rebbeim could hold their own, with Rav Chaim Friedlander eventually becoming mashgiach , and th...

  Orioles, After 115 Losses, Part Ways With Showalter and Duquette Baltimore Manager Buck Showalter, right, with shortstop Jonathan Villar after the team's final game of the season on Sunday. Showalter was fired Wednesday. Credit... Patrick Semansky/Associated Press By  The Associated Press Oct. 3, 2018 BALTIMORE — The Baltimore Orioles will continue their rebuilding project without Manager Buck Showalter and the executive vice president of baseball operations Dan Duquette, who were fired Wednesday after the team finished with the worst record in the major leagues. With Duquette procuring the talent and Showalter making it work on the field, Baltimore snapped a run of 14 straight losing seasons and made the playoffs in 2012, 2014 and 2016. But the Orioles finished 75-87 in 2017 — losing 19 of their final 23 games — and this year staggered through a 47-115 season, the worst since the team moved to Baltimore in 1954. The club issued a statement Wednesday night that read, in part...