- Kollel Ohr Yosef
Infobox Organization
name = Kollel Ohr Yosef
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formation = October 2007
type =Kollel
location = 613 Clark Avenue WestThornhill, Ontario
membership = 11
leader_title = Rosh Kollel
leader_name = RabbiAvraham Bitterman
num_staff = 2Kollel Ohr Yosef is a
kollel , for young married Orthodox men located inThornhill, Ontario . It is aCommunity Kollel , meaning that it reaches out to the community by inviting members of the community to learn with the Kollel men. In addition, the members of the kollel also engage in, classic in-depthTalmudic study during the hours of the day when most of the community members are busy at work. It was established in October2007 , and is lead byRabbi Avraham Bitterman . It is currently housed in theBAYT , as per it's 2-year contract. The kollel has, in it's short time in Thornhill, changed the face ofJewish Thornhill [http://www.jewishtribune.ca/tribune/PDF/jt011108.pdf Jewish Tribune Article] .Opposition
The Kollel faced some Opposition [http://www.jewishtribune.ca/TribuneV2/content/view/165/37/ Article in Jewish Tribune] , as it first started, but the matter was soon sorted out by the
BAYT board of directors. Many people were appeased, and embraced the new kollel [http://www.jewishtribune.ca/tribune/PDF/jt011108.pdf Second article in the same paper]The "kollel" is named in honor of
Joseph Tanenbaum , a philanthropist who built manyToronto organisations, including the BAYT.One of the yeshivos in the city has night seder for some of their talmidim at the kollel nightlyReferences
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