David Harris (rabbi)

Rabbi Dovid Harris Shlit"a
File:Harris R David.jpg Rabbi Dovid Harris Giving Shiur
Began	April 15, 2008
Ended	Incumbent
Predecessor	Rabbi Henoch Leibowitz
Personal details
Born	1945 Scranton, Pennsylvania
Nationality	United States of America
Denomination	Orthodox
Residence	Kew Gardens Hills, New York
Semicha	From RSA

This article concerns the Rabbi, David Harris. For other people with the same name, see David Harris.

Dovid Harris is an Orthodox rabbi who as co-rosh yeshiva (dean) heads the Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yisrael Meir HaKohen. (The other co-rosh yeshiva is Rabbi Akiva Grunblatt.) He is a prominent figure in the yeshiva world and speaks annually at the Torah Umesorah - National Society for Hebrew Day Schools convention. He also serves on the Rabbinic advisory committee of Torah Umesorah

Life and education

Rabbi Harris was born in 1945 in Scranton Pennsylvania. He attended Scranton Hebrew Day school. After graduation, looking for a yeshiva high school he decided on the Rabbinical Seminary of America in Queens New York. It was really a monumental decision because Rabbi Harris has spent his entire life studying or working for the Yeshiva and its affiliates. Rabbi Harris graduated from high school and continued on in the Yeshiva's post-high school program. In 1964 Rabbi Harris along with the entire Yeshiva traveled to Israel to study. In 1968 Rabbi Harris returned to Israel along with the entire Yeshiva. He would remain behind in 1969 to help strengthen the Israel branch. Rabbi Harris would complete his studies at the Yeshiva in 1973 after receiving his rabbinic ordination.

Career

In 1974 he co-founded the school's first external affiliate branch, the Talmudical Institute of Upstate New York, also known as "Rochester", together with Rabbi Menachem Davidowitz.

TIUNY has since radically departed from accepted RSA standards and is known as a separate "branch" institution of RSA.

In the Fall of 1988, Rabbi Dovid Harris also founded Mesivta Tiferes Yisroel, another branch of the Chofetz Chaim Network.

See also

• Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yisrael Meir HaKohen
• Chofetz Chaim (disambiguation).
• Mesivta Tiferes Yisroel (an affiliate school).
• Talmudical Institute of Upstate New York (an affiliate school).
• Rabbi Binyomin Luban (A different CC Rabbi)