Yeshivas Ner Yisroel

Ner Israel Rabbinical College, also known as NIRC and Ner Yisrael, is a yeshiva in Pikesville, Baltimore County, Maryland, founded in 1933 by Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchok Ruderman, a disciple of Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel, dean of the Slabodka yeshiva in Lithuania. It is currently headed by Rabbi Aharon Feldman, a disciple of Rabbi Ruderman.The yeshiva is an all-male Lithuanian -style Talmudic college and is politically affiliated with Agudath Israel of America.The yeshiva campus is located at Mt. Wilson Lane, just northwest of the Baltimore City limits. Ner Israel has two central study halls, one for the high school and one much larger for the beis medrash and the kollel . Enrollment is approximately 250 students in its high school division, 250 students in its beis medrash/undergraduate division, and about 150 members in its kollel/postgraduate division.History and past leadershipRabbi Yaakov Yitzchak Ruderman, the son-in-law of Rabbi Sheftel Kramer, founded the yeshiva in 1933 with six students. The yeshiva was named after Rabbi Yisrael Lipkin Salanter, the founder of the mussar movement and teacher of Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel.