At the Yeshivas Mir Yerushalayim dinner at Belle Works in Holmdel, NJ, Shlomo Yehuda Rechnitz, famed philanthropist from Los Angeles, announced that the stipends of the yungeleit at the yeshiva would be increased by 20%.

The effort to increase the yungeleit‘s stipends was undertaken by R’ Shlomo Yehuda, who was the guest of honor together with well-known philanthropist Ralph Herzka of Brooklyn.

The dinner was attended was thousands of talmidim, friends and supporters of the yeshiva.

The dais was graced by roshei yeshiva and rabbonim, including the zekan roshei hayeshivos, Maran Rav Shmuel Kamenetsky, Rosh Yeshivas Philadelphia, who delivered divrei brocha.

In recognition of the remarkable generosity of R’ Shlomo Yehuda and R’ Ralph, the Mir presented each of them with a Sefer Torah, an expression of the yeshiva‘s gratitude to two of the greatest tomchei Torah of our time, who have each donated tens of millions of dollars to the Mir and other mosdos haTorah.

In his speech tonight, R’ Shlomo Yehuda referenced the legendary baal tzedakah and baal chesed, Reb Moshe Reichmann z”l, who continues to serve as a the paradigm and the example to which R’ Shlomo Yehuda aspires, supporting Torah in magnanimous fashion.