Career
After leaving Torah Ore, Tropper accepted a position at the nascent Ohr Somayach institutions. After five years in Jerusalem teaching baalei teshuva, Tropper returned to the United States to become the educational director of Ohr Sameach, New York located in Yonkers and Monsey. In 1981, Tropper joined Rabbi Avrohom Gershon Tress zt"l in founding a new yeshiva for baalei teshuva, the Kol Yaakov Torah Center, and became its rosh yeshivah.
In 1995, Tropper founded a new outreach program called Horizons, focusing on educating and inspiring the unaffiliated to experience a Torah lifestyle. As its director, Tropper traveled the world lecturing and teaching. He has also written three books: a halachic work based on the decisions of his mentor Rabbi Scheinberg, a guide to the laws of yichud, a discussion of the prohibition of seclusion between men and women.
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