Yeshiva Gedola of Bridgeport
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The Yeshiva Gedola of Bridgeport is a four-year old Jewish study institution in Bridgeport, Connecticut based in the Ahavas Achim Synagogue on Arlington St. The Yeshiva began in Monsey, NY with the study rooms housed within the building of the Ohr Somayach, an established school there.
The Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Berger, was born in Montreal, Canada and raised in Los Angeles, California. He studied in Israel for 15 years, and then moved to Monsey to fulfill his dream of starting a Yeshiva.
The Yeshiva has been very successful so far, with six Rebbeim, nearly 50 full time students and four separate dormitories. The school plans to expand their physical building after recently gaining the deeds to the land they are on, from the Synagogue.
The school has breathed new life into the old local Jewish community, and is slowly expanding, especially thanks to the Yeshiva's Kollel program.
