Borough Park, NY – Brooklyn’s Torah Animal World Consolidating Animal Collection

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    Rabbi Shaul Shimon Deutsch, owner of the museum on Dec. 29, 2013 ( Arya Rabinovits/VINnews.com)Borough Park, NY – Brooklyn’s Torah Animal World may be closing its animal building due to financial hardship, but two buildings will remain open.

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    In a video interview with VIN News, Rabbi Shaul Shimon Deutsch, owner of the museum, said one of the buildings will be sold but two buildings will remain open to house some of the animal collection. The animals will be consolidated among the two remaining open buildings and the Catskill location. Tours of the remaining animals will continue in the other two open buildings.

    Deutsch says the hardest item to import and transport was the elephant due to its size. He also stated the birds and the kangaroo were difficult to acquire, as they needed special approval. Only endangered animals needed special permits.

    Sponsors have dwindled over the years leaving the museum in financial distress, forcing Deutsch to sell one of the buildings.

    The educational institution receives about 35,000 visitors per year from schools, families and tourists.


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    lamdan
    lamdan
    10 years ago

    What a loss but maybe some sponsors from the mass rally that was cancelled maybe can now sponsor this museum it has much more to offer than a rally????

    10 years ago

    Its a shame. Rav Deutsch, shlita, is a highly regarded rav from Chabad who has shown great mesiras nefesh to keep these locations going. Thre are too many worthy mosdos competing for the limited amounts of funds available.

    ModernLakewoodGuy
    ModernLakewoodGuy
    10 years ago

    It is a shame there are no dinosaurs in this museum. To pretend that multiple species of animals never existed simply because their timeline does not match up with your view of the universe is ignorance in its largest form.

    CountryYossi
    CountryYossi
    10 years ago

    whats the price of the house you want to sell.?

    CountryYossi
    CountryYossi
    10 years ago

    Why couldnt you get some funds from Greenfield,Felder,Hikind offices?

    mossad
    mossad
    10 years ago

    To make clear the dinosaur issue, we find the story of king david going up on a mountain, when suddenly the mountain stood up, he realized it was an animal, and he was just on the horns… thats how huge it was… so he called to hashem for help, and Hashem sent a lion, so the animal will bow to the lion, and so it did.
    Now he asked Hashem “הושיענו מפי אריה ומקרני ראם עניתני”, and he was saved.
    Quite possible that this animal is the dinosaur!

    as-it-is
    as-it-is
    10 years ago

    The Gemorah in Zevachim says there was an animal, called a reaim, which was so big it couldn’t fit in the teyva so Noach had to tye it to the outside, so it appears that Chazal knew about dinosaurs before modern scientiists did.

    enlightened-yid
    enlightened-yid
    10 years ago

    I’ve been to that place and it’s insult to call it a “museum.” It’s more like some red neck’s garage in Alaska who has taxidermy of hunt trophies. If you really care to educate 35,000 students about the living environment, take a trip to the American Museum of Natural History in the city where qualified scientists develop exhibits with education in mind.

    mendoza
    mendoza
    10 years ago

    i am so proud of my camper from gan yisroale in parksvile ny
    it was 1973 bunk daled in the bal shem tov bunk

    BigMasmid
    BigMasmid
    10 years ago

    good luck Rabbi

    10 years ago

    Why Not look for funding From the Dept. Of Cultrual Affairs;;; City, State & Federal.

    10 years ago

    Uneducated people believe this is a museum. It’s ok for kids in strollers, but please teach our kinder about real science if they are to survive in this world. Teach them the planets revolve around the sun and not that the world is flat as they are learning in Monsey and New Square. My kids are in 6th and 7th grade and have never had a science lecture except how flat the earth is.