Meyer Fendel This is Me

 Web References

1. 1. Young Israel of West Hempstead - Our History

   www.yiwh.org/yiwhhst.html - [Cached]

   Published on: 8/8/1997   Last Visited: 12/9/2007

   In 1952, Rabbi Meyer Fendel, who was a new member of the staff of Torah Umesorah received an inquiry from a Levittown parent who was searching for a day school in Nassau County for his child. Rabbi Fendel contacted some local Rabbis and approached them with the idea of of establishing a Day School in Nassau County.
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   After six months of operation, Rabbi Meyer Fendel was engaged as the full-time Principal and Director and was to build that fledgling school from a one grade, two classroom building, to one of America's outstanding Day Schools.
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   Often, in order to provide a quorum of ten, Rabbi Fendel, who was unmarried at the time, brought boys from the Chofetz Chaim Yeshiva to West Hempstead to help out.
   
   The old 'haunted house', as it was called, school building was used for four grades.
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   Rabbi Fendel served as the Rav of the Synagogue without remuneration for ten years, in addition to his full time duties as principal of the school.