Morris J. Besdin dating history

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Morris J. Besdin (July 15, 1913-April 10, 1982, also known as Moshe Besdin) was a Jewish chaplain in the United States Army during World War II, a pulpit rabbi in Pennsylvania and New York, a university Jewish studies educator and a university administrator. For nearly a quarter-century he headed the Jewish Studies Program (JSP) at Yeshiva University, created to appeal to ba’alei teshuva (religious returnees). They constituted “a revolution in Jewish religious life” and the movement was “a new phenomenon in Judaism; for the first time there are not only Jews who leave the fold ... but also substantial number who ‘return.’” The “excellent” JSP program was the “first Orthodox residential college (yeshiva) designed for newly or prospective Orthodox Jews” and the “most dramatically successful” of any in its time.