Keser Torah Radomsk
Keser Torah Radomsk (), also spelled Keter Torah Radomsk, is the name of yeshivas and kollels in Israel and the United States affiliated with the Radomsk Hasidic dynasty. The name was originally coined for a network of 36 yeshivas in pre-war Poland founded by the fourth Radomsker Rebbe, Rabbi Shlomo Chanoch Hakohen Rabinowicz and led by his son-in-law, Rabbi David Moshe Hakohen Rabinowicz . Establishment in Poland. World War I uprooted hundreds of thousands of Eastern European Jews and decimated established communities. Thousands of "shtiebelach" (small houses of prayer and study) in which Hasidic youth traditionally  learned the customs and lore of their dynasties were destroyed. On Lag BaOmer 1926, Rabbi Shlomo Chanoch Hakohen Rabinowicz, the fourth Radomsker Rebbe and a prominent Polish Hasidic leader, announced his plan to innovate a new trend in Hasidic education before a gathering of Radomsker Hasidim. He declared: "The time has come to found yeshivas where the younger generation will be able to learn and toil in Torah. We must plant the light of Torah in every city in Poland. Until now, everybody learned where he desired and what he desired. Times have changed and today the necessity is to  set up organized yeshivas and appoint roshei yeshivas who will educate our youth. The yeshivas will be called Keser Torah". Soon after the Rebbe's announcement, eight yeshivas were opened – in Będzin, Podgórze, Chrzanów, Wolbrom, Oświęcim, Częstochowa, Łódź and Kraków. In the city of Sosnowiec, the Rebbe also founded Kibbutz Govoha, a high-level study group exclusively for advanced students and "avreichim" (married students). He appointed his new son-in-law, Rabbi David Moshe Hakohen Rabinowicz (1906–1942), a brilliant Torah scholar, to head it. Rabbi David Moshe, a first cousin of the Rebbe, married the Rebbe's only daughter in  1929. He also served as rosh yeshiva of the entire Keser Torah network, monitoring students' progress, delivering "shiurim", and administering the end of the semester tests. By 1930, nine yeshivas and the kibbutz were functioning. Over the following decade, more yeshivas were added. On the eve of World War II, there were 36 Keser Torah yeshivas enrolling over 4,000 students in Poland. Though Hasidic in nature, the yeshivas did not promote Radomsker Hasidism, nor were students and staff exclusively Radomsker Hasidim. (In Sosnowiec, for example, the rosh yeshiva was a Ger Hasid.) Each yeshiva had its own rosh yeshiva and  initially studied its own "masechta" (section of the Talmud); later, all the yeshivas studied the same "masechta" at the same time. To encourage a high level of learning, the yeshiva network also produced its own Torah journal containing the best "chidushim" (original Torah thoughts) by students, together with "shiurim" by the rosh yeshivas. The Radomsker Rebbe paid for the entire operation, including staff salaries, food, and student lodging, out of his own pocket. With the German invasion of Poland in 1939, the yeshivas disbanded. The Radomsker Rebbe and Rabbi Dovid Moshe Rabinowicz were both incarcerated in the Warsaw Ghetto, where  the latter continued to give regular "shiurim". The Rebbe and all the members of his family, including his only daughter, son-in-law, and their infant son, were shot to death during the "Aktion" of 1 August 1942. Rebirth in Israel. After World War II, Radomsker Hasidim and Keser Torah yeshiva students who had survived the Holocaust founded Kollel Keser Torah in Bnei Brak, Israel. In 1965 they asked Rabbi Menachem Shlomo Bornsztain, son of the Sochatchover Rebbe and a nephew of Rabbi David Moshe Rabinowicz, to head the kollel. Bornsztain, who became known as the Sochatchover-Radomsker Rebbe, died  in an automobile accident in 1969. After Bornsztain's death, his eldest son, Rabbi Shmuel Bornsztain, assumed the leadership of Kollel Keser Torah. Locations. Today Keser Torah Radomsk institutions exist in these locations: