From Baltimore to Beit Shemesh A Conversation with Rabbi Avrohom Leventhal
Rabbi Avrohom Leventhal, a former Baltimorean and rebbe at Talmudical Academy, is now head of a major Israeli chesed organization, Lemaan Achai. He was in Baltimore recently, and we took the opportunity to speak with him.
Born in Annapolis, Rabbi Leventhal spent a number of his early years in Salisbury on the Eastern Shore, where his shomer Shabbos family used to host college students for Shabbos. Right after his bar mitzvah, he came to Talmudical Academy in Baltimore and, for the last two years of high school, learned in the Scranton yeshiva. Upon high school graduation, Rabbi Leventhal returned to Baltimore and spent the next six years at Ner Israel: three years in yeshiva and three years in kollel. His wife, Eshkie (neé Swerdloff), of New York, ran a popular daycare group for young children.