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{{Infobox Organization
The Jerusalem Kollel was founded with the intent of inspiring and training kollel students of the highest caliber to assume positions of leadership in waning Jewish communities worldwide.
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'''The Jerusalem Kollel''' is a [[semicha|rabbinic education]] program with the stated goal of training [[kollel]] couples to assume positions of leadership in [[Judaism|Jewish]] communities worldwide.<ref>Seltzer, Nachman (October 25, 2006) "To conquer the world" ''Hamodia Magazine'' Feature Section</ref>
The concept is simple and just had to be done.The [[yeshiva]] community continues to grow at a steadily increasing rate while assimilation is eating away at the dwindling Jewish population. Torah Scholarship is on the rise while ignorance in Jewish values is more rampant than ever. What could be more obvious than enlisting some of the finest products of the yeshiva system to stand at the forefront of the battle against assimilation?
The intensive 3-year program covers the [[halakha|laws]] of [[Shabbat]], [[Nidah]], and [[Milk and meat in Jewish law|Issur v'Heter]]<nowiki/>as well as a large body of other legal areas and in addition to Jewish Philosophy and Ethics. There is also an additional training component which includes such areas as public speaking, rabbinic counselling, kashrus, non-profit management among other things.


Established in the autumn of the Jewish calendar year 5762 (2002), the [[kollel]] opened with twenty young men. {{As of|2022}}, the Kollel maintained a student body of approximately 60 handpicked couples and had placed over 300 alumni in positions of community leadership throughout the world.<ref name="website">{{cite web|title=Jerusalem Kollel website|url=http://www.thejerusalemkollel.com/|accessdate=9 January 2011}}</ref>
And so, in the summer of 5762-2002, recruitment began for the initial group of twelve students who would form the cornerstone of the kollel-to-be. The [[kollel]] opened in the autumn and within months the student body exceeded twenty high quality young men committed to serving the Jewish people. Now starting its 7th year, the Kollel boasts over 60 hand-picked students, being groomed for their future roles.


The Dean of the Kollel is Rabbi [[Yitzchak Berkovits]], a respected advisor on contemporary halachic issues, especially for [[Jerusalem]]’s English-speaking haredi community.<ref name=website /><ref name=JpostFB>{{cite news|last=Wrobel|first=Sharon|title=Is facebook kosher?|url=http://www.jpost.com/HealthAndSci-Tech/InternetAndTechnology/Article.aspx?id=168983|accessdate=25 December 2011|newspaper=Jerusalem Post|date=2010-02-17}}</ref> Rabbi Berkovits was a student of the [[Mir yeshiva (Jerusalem)]] and served as [[Mashgiach Ruchani|Menahel Ruchani]] of Yeshivas [[Aish HaTorah]] in Jerusalem for 16 years, before helping to start the JK.<ref name="mish">Rose, Binyamin. "Learning to Care: A 'Sichas HaChag' with Rav Yitzchak Berkovits, shlita". ''[[Mishpacha]]'', 16 May 2010, pp. 38&ndash;46.</ref>
The first kollel member to be placed assumed a major outreach position in the UK within the kollel's first year, with many more accepting positions since that time. Today, Jewish communities and outreach organizations regularly approach the kollel in search of talent to fill leadership positions throughout the world. Currently, the Kollel already has over 40 alumni working throughout the world for Klal Yisrael: from Seattle to Berlin; from Johannesburg to Edmonton.


==Staff==
The concept has become reality.
*Dean: Rabbi Yitchak Berkovits (Rosh Yeshivah - Aish Jerusalem; Nasi - AISH Global)
*CEO: Rabbi Yaakov Blackman (formerly Director of Education, Yeshivas Aish HaTorah)<ref name="ReferenceA">Speech given by Rabbi B. C. Dunner at U.S. Trustee's meeting, September 2011</ref>
*Director of Resource Development: Rabbi Josh Boretsky (formerly Director of the Jewel Women's educational program)<ref name="ReferenceA" />


==Adjunct staff==
<ref>Jerusalem Life Magazine, August 2007</ref>
*Roshei Chabura
**Rabbi Binyamin Feldman
**Rabbi Gabi Kruskal
**Rabbi Dovid Steinhauer
**Rabbi Yosef Gollub
**Rabbi Binyamin Goldberg
* Adjunct Staff (partial list for training program)
** Rabbi Motti Berger (Senior Lecturer - Aish HaTorah)
** Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe (Director of Torch, Houston)
** Rabbi Yaakov Marcus (Senior Lecturer - Neve Yerushalayim)
** Gedalya Rosen
** Eliezer Blatt
** Rabbi Mordechai Kuber
** Dr. Hillel Davis
*Former Roshei Chabura
**Rabbi Yehonason Gefen
**Rabbi Yossi Stillerman
**Rabbi Mattisyahu Friedman
The Women's Program is headed by Rebbetzin Chana Kalsmith.


==Dean==
==References==
{{reflist}}
The Kollel is directed by Rav [[Yitzchak Berkovits]] who, in addition to being a leading [[posek]] and Jewish thinker, comes with years of experience in Jewish education and preparing students from different backgrounds for rabbinical and outreach positions.


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Rav Berkovits is recognized as a prominent [[posek]] throughout the world,and especially within the English speaking community in Jerusalem.He regularly trains groups of yeshiva students as future rabbanim,and his advice on community matters is sought across the globe.He also heads the [[Kollel Linas HaTzedek]] network in Israel and in the U.S.,currently numbering ten different evening kollelim dedicated to the study of bein adam lachaveiro -responsibility to one's fellow man.His classes on halachic issues in kiruv have been an important component in many outreach training programs.


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Further, Rabbi Berkovits is widely renowned as an original Jewish thinker. His output, in the form of writing, tape and video, has been disseminated throughout the Jewish world.
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==Administration==
Rabbi Yaakov Blackman,
Rabbi Josh Beretsky,


==Roshai Chabura==
Rabbi Yossi Stillerman,
Rabbi Matti Friedman,
Rabbi Yeceil Shustall,
Rabbi Yehonasan Gefen


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==Notable Graduates==
Daniel Rowe
Rav, lecturer, and Director of Education for Aish

David Markowitz
Managing Director of the Jewish Awareness Movement (College Outreach in S. California); Director of the Sleeping Giant kiruv Initiative

Menachem Sosnowitz
Ohr Somayach, Johannesburg, Outdoor Jewish Experience

Shaul Kelly
Rav of Aish, Birmingham (U.K.)

Aryeh Wolbe<ref>http://www.torchweb.org/bio.php?staff=awolbe</ref>
Executive Director of TORCH (The Houston Kiruv Kollel)

Eli Krausz
Rav and outreach work in Cherry Hill, NJ

Doron Kornbluth<ref>http://www.doronkornbluth.com/bio.asp</ref>
Ner LeElef staff and International Lecturer on Intermarriage/Assimilation

Shia Greineman
Rav of Victoria, B.C. (in conjunction with the Seattle Kollel); Outreach Director
for the Ottowa Kollel

Daniel Klatzkow
Rav at Aish HaTorah, Winnipeg; Outreach Director, Aish Boston

Benyamin Tepfer
Rebbe at HALB, and Assistant Rabbi/Director of Beginner’s Program at Congregation Aish Kodesh, Woodmere, NY

Shimon Abromczik
Westwood (L.A.) Kiruv Kollel; Currently Rabbi in Y.U.L.A

Yehuda Bressler
Outreach Associate for the Seattle Kollel

Moshe Kibbel
Cincinnati Community Kollel

Gedalia Kauffman
Outreach Director of Aish HaTorah, Johannesburg

Akiva Gilbert
Ohr Somayach, Johannesburg, Director of the Outdoor Jewish Experience

Benyamin Edelstone
Campus Outreach Director for the Seattle Kollel

Sruli Weinreb
Director of Outreach for TORCH (The Houston Kiruv Kollel)

Shlomo Gross
Outreach Director for Yardley, Penn., and Rebbi in the Yardley Yeshiva

Danny Smolowitz
Outreach Director for Aish Essex (U.K.)

Daniel Brett
Rav of Milnerton Shul, Capetown; Outreach Director, Ohr Somayach, Capetown

Gideon Moskowitz
Rav of Meyerland Shul in Houston (in conjunction with the Houston Kollel)

Shlomo Farhi
Rav and Lecturer at Aish London

Danny Masri
Rav and Lecturer for TORCH (The Houston Kiruv Kollel)

Moshe White
Edmonton Community Kollel

Sholomo Abrams
Rav of the North Dallas community for DATA (The Dallas Kiruv Kollel)

David Rose
Director of Yeshivas Beit Zion, Berlin [<ref>http://www.yeshiva.de/de/our-people-yeshurun/unser-team-ly</ref>]

Yaakov Dov Orshansky
Rav in Antwerp

Yehuda Carter
The Whitefield Community Kollel, Manchester

Simon Nissim
Young Professional Outreach, Aish London

Chanan Spivak
Outreach Director for Portland Outreach Kollel

Dov Greer
Founder and Rosh Kollel of the New Haven Kollel, Conn

Ari Goldberg
Assistant Rav of Congregation Poale Tzedek and NCSY Director, Pittsburgh

Tuvia Greenberg
Rebbi in Sunnydale (and an associate of the Jewish Studies Network)

Joel Padowitz
Director of Aish, London

Josh Livingstone
Campus Outreach, Northwestern University (Machon Shlomo-Maor)

David Laufer
Outreach Director for the Edmonton Kollel

Shmuel Broide
Campus Outreach, Univ of Georgia (Atlanta Kollel); Rebbi in NYHS (Seattle)

Shia Markowitz
Lecturer for Project Chazon, New York

Ari Heitner
NCSY Director, Washington D.C.; Currently [[NCSY]] representative, Toronto

Shimon Kaye
College outreach director [[Temple]] and [[Drexel]] Universities (Machon Shlomo-Maor)

Yaakov Aryeh Abraham
Congregation Beth Solomon of Philadelphia Community Kollel

Meilich Schiller
Yeshiva Gedolah of Bridgeport Kiruv Kollel

Yisroel Weider
Ohr Sameach Community Kollel, Johannesburg

Micha Weisenberg
Campus outreach, University of Indiana (Bloomington)

Avraham Zeidman
Young adult outreach, SEED London and Edgeware Community Kollel

Yehuda Zachter
Campus outreach director, Columbia University (Aish HaTorah Campus Network)

Jonny Hamilton
Rav and Counsellor, Derech Program (Ohr Sameach)

Boruch Harris
Rebbi at the Afula community day school

Ephraim Cunningham
Yeshiva Gedolah of Bridgeport Kiruv Kollel; Executive Director, The Jewish Experience (Denver)

Moshe Zucker
Rebbi at the Emek Hebrew Academy (Los Angeles)

Anthony Manning
Director of the Pathways Program (Darchei Noam)

Ben-Zion Hutman
Rebbi at the Hillel High School (Pittsburgh)

Jamie Richards
San Francisco Kiruv Kollel (and an associate of the Jewish Studies Network)

Andrew Savage
Campus Outreach Director, Oxford and Cambridge Universities ([[Aish HaTorah UK]])

Mordechai Weinberg
Toronto Community Kollel

Mordechai Levine
Director of the Yesod Program ([[Ohr Sameach]])

Avi Bensoussan
Rebbi and Counsellor, [[Yeshivat Magen David]] (Brooklyn)

Motty Weinstock
San Francisco Kiruv Kollel

Chaim Karpel
Outreach for TORCH (The Houston Kiruv Kollel)

Donny Baron
Founder and Director of Israel Shabbat Experience, Senior Lecturer for Aish
HaTorah, Lecturer for the Derech Institute

Elimelech Blumstein
Outreach for the JEC (Manhattan)

Yaakov Shalom
Rebbi in RJJ (Staten Island)

Jonathan Roodyn
Outreach and Director of Beis Medrash, Aish UK

Yaakov Wohlgelernter
Assistant Rabbi, Westmount Shul and Learning Center (Toronto)

Yechiel Fishman
Cincinnati Community Kollel (in Mason branch)

Ari Ben Shushan
Co-Founder and Co-Director of Ruach Chaim Sefardic Torah Center

Moshe Benayon
Co-Founder and Co-Director of Ruach Chaim Sefardic Torah Center

David Rosenthal
Outreach for Aish HaTorah, Minneapolis

Josh Marder
San Francisco Kiruv Kollel (and an associate of the Jewish Studies Network)

Ariel Aber
Outreach for the JEC (Manhattan)

Nachum Brand
Rav of Gemilas Chesed Synagogue (Pittsburgh)

David Fredman
Outreach Associate of the Seattle Kollel (W. Seattle Branch)

Asaf Haimoff
Rav of the Fresh Meadows Torah Center

Adam Edwards
Adult Torah education for SEED (London) in the Bushey and District Synagogue

Avraham Jacobs
Rav in Yeshivas Toras Chaim, and outreach for Mercaz Torah V’Chesed (Denver)

Chananya Kanner
Community Kiruv Kollel, Millilas (Spanish N. Africa)

Meir Bulua
Executive Director, Forest Hill Jewish Center (Toronto)

Yehoshua Abramson
Ohr Sameach, Johannesburg

==Similar Organizations==
Ohr LaGola - A program run by [[Ohr Somayach, Jerusalem]]
A rabbinic ordination program run by [[Aish HaTorah]]

==References==
<references/>

Latest revision as of 08:22, 26 August 2024

The Jerusalem Kollel
Formation2002[1]
TypeKollel
PurposeJewish Leadership
Location
  • 140 מעגלי הרי"ם לוין, Sanhedria Murchevet, Jerusalem
Membership80+
Official language
English, Hebrew,
Dean
Rabbi Yitzchak Berkovits
Staff15-20
Websitewww.thejerusalemkollel.com

The Jerusalem Kollel is a rabbinic education program with the stated goal of training kollel couples to assume positions of leadership in Jewish communities worldwide.[2] The intensive 3-year program covers the laws of Shabbat, Nidah, and Issur v'Heteras well as a large body of other legal areas and in addition to Jewish Philosophy and Ethics. There is also an additional training component which includes such areas as public speaking, rabbinic counselling, kashrus, non-profit management among other things.

Established in the autumn of the Jewish calendar year 5762 (2002), the kollel opened with twenty young men. As of 2022, the Kollel maintained a student body of approximately 60 handpicked couples and had placed over 300 alumni in positions of community leadership throughout the world.[1]

The Dean of the Kollel is Rabbi Yitzchak Berkovits, a respected advisor on contemporary halachic issues, especially for Jerusalem’s English-speaking haredi community.[1][3] Rabbi Berkovits was a student of the Mir yeshiva (Jerusalem) and served as Menahel Ruchani of Yeshivas Aish HaTorah in Jerusalem for 16 years, before helping to start the JK.[4]

Staff

[edit]
  • Dean: Rabbi Yitchak Berkovits (Rosh Yeshivah - Aish Jerusalem; Nasi - AISH Global)
  • CEO: Rabbi Yaakov Blackman (formerly Director of Education, Yeshivas Aish HaTorah)[5]
  • Director of Resource Development: Rabbi Josh Boretsky (formerly Director of the Jewel Women's educational program)[5]

Adjunct staff

[edit]

[6]

  • Roshei Chabura
    • Rabbi Binyamin Feldman
    • Rabbi Gabi Kruskal
    • Rabbi Dovid Steinhauer
    • Rabbi Yosef Gollub
    • Rabbi Binyamin Goldberg
  • Adjunct Staff (partial list for training program)
    • Rabbi Motti Berger (Senior Lecturer - Aish HaTorah)
    • Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe (Director of Torch, Houston)
    • Rabbi Yaakov Marcus (Senior Lecturer - Neve Yerushalayim)
    • Gedalya Rosen
    • Eliezer Blatt
    • Rabbi Mordechai Kuber
    • Dr. Hillel Davis
  • Former Roshei Chabura
    • Rabbi Yehonason Gefen
    • Rabbi Yossi Stillerman
    • Rabbi Mattisyahu Friedman

The Women's Program is headed by Rebbetzin Chana Kalsmith.

References

[edit]
  1. ^ a b c "Jerusalem Kollel website". Retrieved 9 January 2011.
  2. ^ Seltzer, Nachman (October 25, 2006) "To conquer the world" Hamodia Magazine Feature Section
  3. ^ Wrobel, Sharon (2010-02-17). "Is facebook kosher?". Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 25 December 2011.
  4. ^ Rose, Binyamin. "Learning to Care: A 'Sichas HaChag' with Rav Yitzchak Berkovits, shlita". Mishpacha, 16 May 2010, pp. 38–46.
  5. ^ a b Speech given by Rabbi B. C. Dunner at U.S. Trustee's meeting, September 2011
  6. ^ Jerusalem Life Magazine, August 2007


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