Updated as of Monday, Aug. 7, 2017 @ 12:36 PM- Sharon Kowalsky and family will be sittng shiva at Prospect Park Yeshiva  1609 Avenue R until 10 PM Thursday, concluding Friday afternoon

Shacharis: Mon & Thurs 6:50, otherwise 7:00
Mincha: 7:35
Maariv: 8:05

 

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Brooklyn, NY - Rabbi Avraham Kelman, founder of the Bnos Leah Prospect Park Yeshiva girls’ school in Flatbush died Saturday morning in Brooklyn at the age of 96 after a lengthy illness.


Hailing from a long line of rabbonim, Rabbi Kelman was named as the rov of Congregation Bais Yehuda in Toronto, before serving as a chaplain during World War II.
 
He established Prospect Park in 1952 and over the years the school has educated thousands of girls from preschool through twelfth grade.


On the school’s website, Rabbi Kelman outlined Prospect Park’s dual mission as providing students with a high quality education while also instilling in them a sense of joy in their future roles as the “mothers of klal yisroel.”


Rabbi Kelman authored several seforim in his lifetime and was the rov of the Prospect Park Jewish Center for more than 60 years.


The funeral will take place on Sunday at 1 PM in Prospect Park auditorium at 1604 Avenue R followed by burial at Wellwood Cemetery in Farmingdale.