Talmudic scholar, leader of New York yeshiva, dies at age 87
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Rabbi Shmuel Berenbaum, a devoted Talmudic scholar who led a yeshiva in New York for more than 50 years after fleeing Nazi-occupied Poland and briefly taking refuge in Shanghai, has died. He was 87.
Berenbaum died Sunday after a long struggle with cancer, said Rabbi Pinchus Hecht, executive director of the 1,200-member Mir Yeshiva. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg praised Berenbaum, noting that he built the Jewish academy ''into one of the largest centers for Torah study in the world.'' Thousands of mourners turned out for a funeral in New York on Monday. His body was to be flown to Israel on Tuesday for burial in Jerusalem. (AP)
