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Yitzchok Scheiner

Yitzchok Scheiner was an Israeli American rabbi who headed the Kamenitz yeshiva in Jerusalem.

1922 to 2021Heading the Kamenitz yeshiva in JerusalemMember of Degel HaTorah's rabbinic council

Born: 5 November 1922, Pittsburgh
Died: 31 January 2021, Jerusalem
Occupation: rabbi
Education: Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, Yeshiva Torah Vodaas

Yitzchok Scheiner was born in 1922 in Pittsburgh

Yitzchok Scheiner was born in Pittsburgh on November 5, 1922. His parents were immigrants from Poland.

He attended Peabody High School in Pittsburgh. Rabbi Avraham Bender persuaded the family to send him to yeshiva in New York. There he studied at Yeshivas Rabbenu Yitzchok Elchonon and at Yeshiva Torah Vodaas under Rabbi Shlomo Heiman.

In the late 1940s he married a granddaughter of Rabbi Boruch Ber Leibowitz. In the 1960s he taught at a yeshiva in Montreux, Switzerland.

His father-in-law headed the Kamenitz yeshiva in Jerusalem. After his death, Scheiner led the yeshiva together with relatives, and later became its central head. He also joined the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah of Degel HaTorah.

He lived in the Kerem Avraham neighborhood of Jerusalem. His wife died in 2007. He died of the coronavirus on January 31, 2021.