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Jeremy Wieder
Jeremy Wieder (born February 1971) is a rosh yeshiva at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University, located in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York. He holds the "Gwendolyn and Joseph Straus Chair in Talmud".
Rabbi Wieder was one of the first Americans to win the International Bible Contest, and later graduated summa cum laude from Yeshiva College in 1991, and received an M.S. in American Jewish history from the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies. In 2005, he
Ben Haim, Mordechai Willig, Michael Rosensweig, Mayer Twersky, Jeremy Wieder, Yaakov Neuburger, Baruch Simon, Zvi Sobolofsky, David Hirsch, and Daniel Stein.
Chag Hasemikhah.
Ordination can technically be conferred upon a student who completes all of the necessary requirements for semikhah at any point in time. Nonetheless, every three or four years, RIETS conducts a formal Chag Hasemikhah, which is an official celebration of the students who received rabbinic ordination since the last Chag. It is traditionally held on or about the yartzeit