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==Roshei Chabura<ref>Jerusalem Life Magazine, August 2007</ref>==
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Revision as of 15:41, 9 June 2017

The Jerusalem Kollel
Formation2002[1]
TypeKollel
PurposeJewish Leadership
Location
  • 140 מעגלי הרי"ם לוין, Sanhedria Murchevet, Jerusalem
Membership80+
Official language
English, Hebrew,
Rabbi Yitzchak Berkovits
Staff11
Websitewww.thejerusalemkollel.com

The Jerusalem Kollel is a rabbinic education program with the stated goal of training kollel students to assume positions of leadership in Jewish communities worldwide.[2]

Established in the autumn of the Jewish calendar year 5762 (2002), the kollel opened with twenty young men. As of 2012, the Kollel had over 70 students and had placed over 130 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] Berkovits was a student of the Mir yeshiva (Jerusalem) and served as Menahel Ruchani of Yeshivas Aish HaTorah in Jerusalem for 16 years.[4]

Staff

  • Dean: Rabbi Yitchak Berkovits
  • Director : Rabbi Yaakov Blackman (formally Director of Education, Yeshivas Aish HaTorah)[5]
  • Assistant Director: Rabbi Moshe Niehaus
  • Director of Resource Development: Rabbi Josh Boretsky (formally Director of the Jewel Women's educational program)[5]
    • Former Staff
      • Assistant Directors:
        • Rabbi Shimon Boruch Glickman[6]
        • Rabbi Yitzhok Becker
      • Test Coordinators:
        • Rabbi Yitzi Shulman
        • Rabbi Yosef Shapiro
      • Director of Development
        • Rabbi Uri Jaskiel

Roshei Chabura[7]

  • Rabbi Yossi Stillerman
  • Rabbi Gabi Kruskal
  • Rabbi Matti Friedman
  • Rabbi Yehonason Gefen (Author of The Guiding Light)

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

References

  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. ^ http://il.linkedin.com/in/shimonglickman
  7. ^ Jerusalem Life Magazine, August 2007