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Rabbi Berenbaum being laid to rest. (AP) Last update - 23:15 07/01/2008 Rabbi Shmuel Berenbaum, leader of N.Y. yeshiva, dies at 87 By The Associated Press Tags: Yeshiva, New York, Mir  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 Pinchos Hecht, executive director of the 1,200-member Mir Yeshiva. Another branch of the yeshiva is in Jerusalem, with an estimated 4,000 students. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg released a statement praising Berenbaum, noting that he built the Jewish academy into one of the largest centers or Torah study in the world. Advertisement Berenbaum was born in Poland and studied in a yeshiva in the town of Mir before World War II. As the Nazis rolled across Eastern Europe, Berenbaum and other yeshiva students fled across the Soviet Union and resettled in Shanghai. From there, they eventually emigrated to the United States. Steven Bayme, national director of contemporary Jewish life at the American Jewish Congress, said the yeshiva helped preserve a world that was otherwise lost. "The rescue of the institution during the Holocaust by going to Shanghai was an act of incredible daring. It took enormous courage and perseverance," Bayme added. Police estimated that tens of 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, Hecht said. Leadership of the yeshiva in New York will pass to Berenbaum's nephew, Rabbi Osher Kalmanowitz Bookmark to del.icio.us   Dear Mr. Olmert An American yeshiva student asks Olmert to heed secular Israelis on J'lem's fate. Work stoppage Olmert totally freezes new building in all West Bank settlements.   1.   Bruch Dayan Haemet! Sage has left us 23:38  |  Tom 07/01/08   2.   He will be missed by his students 23:49  |  Shlomo 07/01/08   3.   A question, perhaps someone can explain to me 23:52  |  Maria 07/01/08   4.   hey who says there is no good news? 23:56  |  fuck zion 07/01/08   5.   A Giant of a Man 00:18  |  David 08/01/08   6.   The entire Mir Yeshiva was saved by a Japanese diplomat 00:36  |  Jake 08/01/08   7.   Rabbi Shmuel Berenbaum 02:51  |  Michael 08/01/08   8.   #3, Answer to a queston 18:48  |  Leah 08/01/08   9.   Answer to 3 18:55  |  Tom 08/01/08   10.   Leah/Maria 16:45  |  Nick 09/01/08   11.   to Nick 17:57  |  PW 09/01/08   12.   Amazing story of Shanghai 21:28  |  Joe 09/01/08   13.   Reply to #3 Jews in London, Paris, NY 21:36  |  Joseph 09/01/08   14.   Reply to Nick 21:47  |  Joe 09/01/08   15.   99% Poor - 1% Rich - Impossible Society 02:43  |  de d 10/01/08   16.   answer to mairia 20:05  |  jack 25/01/08   17.   question for tom 20:11  |  jack 25/01/08

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