Ner Israel Rabbinical College

Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchak Ruderman , the son-in-law of Rabbi Sheftel Kramer , founded the yeshiva in 1933 with six students. It was based in a local shul . [ 4 ] The yeshiva was named after Rabbi Yisrael Lipkin Salanter , [ 12 ] the founder of the mussar movement followed by Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel (known as the Alter of Slabodka), Ruderman's mentor. He modeled Ner Yisroel after Finkel's yeshiva, the Slabodka Yeshiva . Rabbi Dovid Kronglass , of the Mirrer Yeshiva in Europe (and during World War II in Shanghai) was the yeshiva's first mashgiach ruchani until his death on December 16, 1972. [ 13 ] Besides his role as Mashgiach, he also served as a Maggid Shiur and was the Posek of the Yeshiva. [ 14 ] Rabbi Herman Naftali Neuberger , a son-in-law of Rabbi Sheftel Kramer, brother-in-law of Ruderman, and an alumnus of the Mirrer Yeshiva in Europe, and of Ner Israel itself, was president of Ner Israel from 1940 until his death in 2005. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] Rabbi Neuberger joined the Yeshiva as a student when he arrived from his native Bavaria in 1938. [ 17 ] His son Rabbi Sheftel Neuberger was full-time assistant 'menahel' from May 1987, the menahel (president) of the yeshiva from 2005, when he succeeded his father, until his death on February 10, 2021. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] Prior to 2005, Sheftel Neuberger was a Maggid Shiur in the yeshiva for many years, ending that position before Passover 1987 to become full-time assistant 'menahel'. [ 20 ] Rabbi Shmuel Yaakov Weinberg , a disciple of Rabbi Yitzchak Hutner , served on the Ner Yisroel faculty for nearly 50 years. He served as a Maggid Shiur from 1945 to 1965, as well as dean of the Kollel from 1953 to 1965. From 1971 until 1987, he served as an assistant to the Rosh Yeshiva and head of the Kollel. From Ruderman's death in 1987 until his own death on July 1, 1999, [ 21 ] Weinberg served as Rosh Yeshiva . Weinberg was married to Chana Ruderman, the only child of Yaakov Yitzchok Ruderman. [ 22 ] She died on January 23, 2012.

[ 23 ] Rabbi Yaakov Moshe Kulefsky , a disciple of Rabbi Shlomo Heiman and senior lecturer in the Yeshiva, served as the Rosh Yeshiva from Weinberg's death in 1999 until his death on November 30, 2000. [ 24 ] Other rabbis who served on the faculty include the late: Rabbi Shimon Schwab , later rabbi of the German-Jewish Frankfurt Kehillah / community in Washington Heights N.Y.; Rabbi Simcha Zissel Broide of the Chevron Yeshiva in Jerusalem; Rabbi Ephraim Eisenberg, the son-in-law of Rabbi Mordechai Gifter , and Rabbi Zvi Dov Slanger, a disciple of Rav Shach , who was a Maggid Shiur in the high school for many years until 1996 when he founded and became Rosh Yeshiva of the Bais Medrash & Mesivta Of Baltimore. [ 25 ] The Mechina was founded in 1957 and went through seven principals until Rabbi Yosef Tendler became the principal of the Mechina in 1964, and remained in that position until his death on February 8, 2012. [ 26 ]

Rabbi Aharon Feldman is as the rosh yeshiva (dean) and is also a council member of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah . Feldman studied in the yeshiva in the 1950s, but had been living in Israel from 1961 until his appointment as rosh yeshiva in 2001. Rabbi Boruch Neuberger is the menahel (president) of the yeshiva, succeeding his father, Rabbi Sheftel Neuberger. Jerome Kadden is the yeshiva's executive director. Rabbi Beryl Weisbord, a son-in-law of Weinberg, is the yeshiva's mashgiach ruchani . Rabbi Simcha Cook is the menahel of the high school. Rabbi Yosef Neuberger is the Mashgiach. Rabbi Azriel Hauptman is the General Studies principal.

The campus (known as "The Beren Campus") is nearly 100 acres at Mt. Wilson Lane , just northwest of the Baltimore City limits, where the yeshiva moved in 1968 from 4411 Garrison Boulevard in Baltimore. Ner Israel has two central study halls, one for the high school (known as the Mechina) and one much larger for the beis medrash and the kollel (also doubling as the main prayer sanctuaries). There is an additional study hall/multi-purpose room of a smaller size that is called the "Friedman Beis Medrash". Enrollment is approximately 250 students in its high school division, 300 students in its beis medrash/undergraduate division, and about 200 members in its kollel/postgraduate division. There is a dining hall, the Sindler/Wolf Dining Hall, and three dormitories on campus. There is housing on campus for members of the faculty and some members of the kollel. This section of the campus is known as "Yeshiva Lane". [ 27 ]