Simcha Zissel Ziv threats to traditional Judaism and to strengthen the cause of the Musar movement, Simcha Zissel decided to open a school in Kelm, the Kelm Talmud Torah. At the time, Simcha Zissel was almost forty years old. The Talmud Torah opened in approximately 1865 and attracted young students, mainly thirteen and fourteen-year-olds. Simcha Zissel’s teacher – Rabbi Yisrael Salanter – had taught Simcha Zissel the importance of Musar and so the Talmud Torah aimed not only to enhance its student’s Torah knowledge but also to shape their personalities and develop their character traits using the Musar approach. Indeed, much of daily
Simcha Krauss and wrote recently an essay in the Tradition magazine, entitled 'The Rav on Zionism, Universalism and Feminism'. He lectured in political science at a number of colleges. He was a Rabbi of the Young Israel of Hillcrest and the Young Israel of St. Louis for many years, and also taught at Yeshiva University in New York. He became president of the Religious Zionists of America before making aliya in 2005. He now teaches at Yeshivat Eretz Hatzvi in Jerusalem. Simcha Krauss Rabbi Simcha Krauss (born 1937) a rabbi associated with the liberal end of Centrist Orthodoxy, is known for his