Fourth Annual Torah Yerushalayim
A full day of inspiration to prepare for Yom Kippur
Sunday Oct. 2

7 Tishrei 5783

Featuring Dynamic presentations by world renowned Torah personalities and acclaimed speakers
Ramada Jerusalem Hotel / Yerushalayim


This program is dedicated in loving memory of David & Norma Fund Z”L
by their children

Hotel Ramada Jerusalem - מלון רמדה ירושלים | ז' תשרי תשפ"ג 02.10.2022 | Opening Time 08:00 | Start time 09:00
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Rabbi Dr. Aaron Adler

Rabbi Dr. Aaron Adler

Rabbi Dr. Aaron Adler is a former student of, and special assistant to, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, zt"l, In addition to being a graduate of Yeshiva University in New York (B.A./M.A), with rabbinic ordination from Y.U.'s Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (R.I.E.T.S.), Rabbi Adler holds a Ph.D in Talmud from Bar Ilan University. Rabbi Adler and his family made aliyah in 1979. He served on the faculty of Bar Ilan University, and is a past president and campus rabbi at Emunah College for Arts and Technology in Jerusalem. He has been a lecturer for the Israel Defense Forces and a commentator for Kol Yisrael radio. Rabbi Adler was a member of the central committee of the National Religious Party. He is the founding Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Bnei Akiva Ner Tamid, located in Hashmona'im, and currently serves as its President. Rabbi Adler is an active community pulpit Rabbi having served in communities in New York, Zurich, Beersheva, and Jerusalem, where he currently serves as the Mora d'Atra of the Ohel Nechama Synagogue in Katamon. Rabbi Adler has directed and led 31 heritage tours to Poland. He lectures extensively in a number of prominent institutions including the OU Israel center.

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Rabbi Moshe Benovitz

Rabbi Moshe Benovitz

Rabbi Moshe Benovitz is the Managing Director of NCSY and the longtime Director of NCSY Summer Kollel. He is a Rebbe in Yeshivat Reishit in Beit Shemesh and resides in Ramat Beit Shemesh with his wife and six children. Prior to moving to Israel, he was a Rebbe DRS,MTA and Bruriah High School for Girls. Rabbi Benovitz makes Torah ideas relevant to a modern audience, and inspires through clear teaching and innovative programming.

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Rabbi Avi Berman

Rabbi Avi Berman

Rabbi Avi Berman is the Executive Director of OU Israel. He has served in this capacity since 2006, working tirelessly to address the issues facing Jewish youth and adults in Israel. Under his leadership, OU Israel inspires and educates thousands of Israeli teens in 20 low socioeconomic communities throughout Israel. Over 60,000 Anglos come to the OU Israel Center annually for Torah learning and educational programs. Prior to this position, Rabbi Berman was the Regional Director of the Northwest Region of NCSY and in five short years succeeded in expanding the region from 30 participants to an active 1,500. Rabbi Berman and his family traveled to Canada after receiving a Bracha from his Rav, and former Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rav Mordechai Eliyahu z”l. Through NCSY, Rabbi Berman succeeded in bringing the light of Torah and Achdut of Am Yisrael to the Vancouver Jewish community. Rabbi Berman spent 12 years studying at the Hesder Yeshiva in Shiloh, where he received his Smicha. It was at this time that he began his successful journey into the world of Jewish communal work and informal Jewish Education. Rabbi Berman, his wife Pnina and their nine children reside in Givat Ze’ev.

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Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz

Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz is a world-renowned lecturer and rabbinic authority, who is the Rav of Kehillas Ohr Somayach, at Ohr Somayach in Jerusalem. Rabbi Breitowitz's scope of knowledge, brilliance, as well as a unique ability to grasp complicated material and communicate it clearly to others is legendary. received his rabbinic ordination from the Ner Israel Rabbinical College; his BA from Johns Hopkins University and JD from Harvard Law School, magna cum laude. He has lectured extensively throughout the US and Israel on medical, business, and family ethics. He has published numerous articles on bankruptcy, commercial law, medical ethics, & Jewish law. Rabbi Breitowitz is a beloved OU Israel Faculty member who inspires both with his eloquent shiurim and warmth.

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Alex Clare

Alex Clare is an award-winning singer, songwriter, and producer. His song “Too Close” went double platinum in the United States and was in the top-ten in five different countries. Alex, a native of the UK, made the decision to become a religious Jew several years ago, and now resides in Jerusalem, where he creates music inspired by his spiritual life. Alex’s personal path to religion, and his decision to become an Orthodox Jew, has intrigued and inspired many. Alex continues to inspire both with his music, his profound faith and his ability to share openly about the complex road to growth.

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Rabbi Dr. Ethan Eisen

Ethan Eisen is a Yeshiva University-ordained rabbi with a PhD in clinical psychology from The George Washington University. Rabbi Dr. Eisen trained at leading clinical and research centers in the United States before making aliyah in 2016 with his family. He currently practices as a licensed clinical psychologist and advocates for issues pertaining to mental health in the Jewish community. His writings on a wide variety of topics in psychology and Jewish interest have been published in top academic and Jewish journals, as well as his book, Talmud on the Mind-Exploring Chazal and Practical psychology to Lead a Better Life.

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Mrs. Leah Feinberg

Mrs. Leah Feinberg is a master educator, who taught at Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls in Hewlett for 21 years, also serving as Tanach Department Chairperson and New Teacher Mentor. She was a popular maggedet shiur in the Woodmere community, where she taught a weekly Navi shiur for women. Since making aliyah in 2017, Leah has taught at Michlalah and the Emek Learning Center, and is a frequent lecturer at Kehillat HaElah in Ramat Beit Shemesh and at the OU Israel Center where she has lectured at Yemei Iyun, the ALIT Summer Learning Program both in person and on Zoom, and at a Beit Midrash series of classes. Leah taught Megillat Esther in the first cycle of Torat Imecha Nach Yomi, and will be teaching Sefer Shmuel Bet in the second cycle.

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Rabbanit Rachelle Fraenkel

Rabbanit Rachelle Fraenkel

Rachelle Sprecher Fraenkel born and raised in Israel, is a Yoetzet Halacha and teaches Talmud and Halakha at Nishmat. She is the director of Matan’s Advanced Halakha Program. Mrs. Fraenkel is a co-founder of The Jerusalem unity prize and Unity Day project. She is a mother of seven and lives with her family in Nof Ayalon

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Rabbi Ezra Friedman

Rabbi Ezra Friedman

Rav Ezra Friedman was born in the United States and raised in Montréal. Upon completing high school, he made Aliyah on his own and studied for ten years at Yeshivat Ohr Etzion, where he was considered one of the outstanding students. He developed a special relationship with the Rosh Yeshiva, Rav Chaim Druckman, as well as Rav Zalman Nechemiah Goldberg, he was later ordained by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel. Rav Ezra served as the director of Yeshivat Ohr Etzion’s Overseas Program and volunteered teaching French and Ethiopian Olim. During his active duty in the IDF, he served in the Tank Corps and fought in the 2009 Operation Cast Lead. Rav Ezra later joined the prestigious Eretz Hemdah Kollel continuing his studies for Rav Ir and Dayanut. As an expert in the areas of kashrut, Rav Ezra was appointed the Director of the Gustave and Carol Jacobs Center for Kashrut Education for OU Israel. Rav Ezra also serves as a Rabbinic Field Representative for OU Kashrut supervising over 50 establishments throughout Israel. Rav Ezra is trilingual, with fluency in English, French and Hebrew. Rav Ezra and his family live in Maale Adumim where he serves as Rav of the Kehilat Musar Avicha.

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Rabbi Gavriel Friedman

Rabbi Gavriel Friedman

Originally from New York, Rabbi Gavriel Friedman has spent the last decade studying and teaching in various Yeshivot throughout Jerusalem. Rabbi Friedman has lectured in dozens of cities around the globe, including Johannesburg, London, Montreal, and across the East Coast of the United States. Rabbi Friedman’s charisma captivates audiences of all ages and inspires men and women across the Jewish spectrum. His unique ability to present Torah concepts in an intriguing yet entertaining fashion leaves his audiences thirsting for more. Rabbi Firedman's popular shiurim in Parshat HaShavua and Daf Yomi, are featured on OU Torah's All Daf and All Parsha platforms. Rabbi Friedman currently resides in the French Hill neighborhood of Jerusalem, with his wife and children.

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Rabbi Dr. Sholom Gold

Rabbi Dr. Sholom Gold, Dean of OU Israel's Avrom Silver Jerusalem College for Adults, was born in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, NY. Rabbi Gold attended Yeshiva Torah Vodaath in New York, Ner Israel in Baltimore, and Yeshivot Ponevez and Hevron in Israel.


He received semicha from Chief Rabbi Yitzchok Isaac Halevi Herzog and from HaRav Yaacov Yitzchok Halevi Ruderman.


Rabbi Gold has been in the vanguard of building communities both in the Diaspora and Israel.


As a young man in 1959, he came to Toronto to establish the Ner Israel Yeshiva, where he also built and developed Congregation Bnei Torah in Willowdale, a northern suburb of Toronto.


Becoming Rabbi of Young Israel of West Hempstead NY in 1971, he built one of the first Eruvin in North America, which quickly became a model world-wide. Under his leadership the local mikveh was built as West Hempstead was developing into one of the most vibrant religious communities in the NY area.


Since making aliya in 1982, he has built and served as the Rav of Kehilat Zichron Yoseph in Har Nof, and in 1984 founded the Avrom Silver Jerusalem College for Adults, which merged with the OU Israel Center in 2002, where Rabbi Gold, as Dean, is teaching Torah today.


His love of and devotion to Eretz Yisrael has accompanied him throughout his entire life. For the past decades, Rabbi Gold has been at the forefront of the struggle for Eretz Yisrael. He was one of the founders of the Ichud Harabanim L’maan Eretz Yisrael V’am Yisrael , under the guidance of the Chief Rabbis Avraham Schapira z”l and Mordechai Eliyahu z”l.


His shiurim have been an inspiration to many, including the countless families whose decision to make aliya was a result of listening to “Rabbi Gold’s Tapes.”

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Rabbi Shmuel Goldin

Rabbi Shmuel Goldin

Rabbi Shmuel Goldin served as spiritual leader of Congregation Ahavath Torah in Englewood, New Jersey, from 1984 until his aliya in September 2017 and now serves as the synagogue’s Rabbi Emeritus

Prior to assuming his role at Ahavath Torah, Rabbi Goldin served as Rabbi of Beth Sholom Congregation, Potomac, Maryland, and Assistant Rabbi, Beth Jacob Congregation, Beverly Hills, California.

Rabbi Goldin served for over twenty years as instructor of Bible and Philosophy at the Isaac Breuer College and the James Striar School of Yeshiva University and he continues to function as a popular visiting scholar and lecturer in a wide variety of settings across the globe.

Rabbi Goldin is a Past President of the Rabbinical Council of America (RCA), the world’s largest association of Orthodox rabbis, and served as initial chairman of the critical committee overseeing the RCA’s policies and standards for conversion to Judaism. Since making aliya to Israel two years ago, Rabbi Goldin has joined the Faculty of the Avrom Silver Jerusalem College for Adults, OU Israel's flagship Adult education program, where he gives a popular weekly shiur.

Rabbi Goldin’s five volume set of studies on the weekly parsha, “Unlocking the Torah Text” is based on his numerous years of lecturing in school and synagogue settings and has earned wide popular and critical acclaim in the broader Jewish community. His recently published “Unlocking the Haggada” was an immediate best-seller and required republication the year it appeared (2018). Rabbi Goldin and his wife, Barbara, are the proud parents of five children and, thank God, an ever-growing brood of grandchildren.

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HaRav Meir Goldwicht

HaRav Meir Goldwicht

HaRav Meir Goldwicht, a prominent Israeli scholar, educator, and a Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva University’s Mazer School of Talmudic Studies, is the head of the new Stone Beit Medrash Program. Rabbi Goldwicht joined YU as a Rosh Yeshiva at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) and the Mazer Yeshiva Program. He received semicha from the renowned rabbinic authorities Rabbi Zalman Nehemia Goldberg in 1980, and HaRav HaGaon Betzallel Zolti Zt”l chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, and Rabbi Ovidyah Yosef, HaRav Rashi of Israel. Rabbi Goldwicht has been a Ram at Yeshiva Kerem B’Yavneh, and has given shiurim extensively at Stern College, all over the metropolitan area, and in Israel.

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Dr. Shmuel Harris MD

Dr. Shmuel Harris is the Founder and Director of Machon Dvir. He is a board-certified adult psychiatrist specializing in comprehensive bio-psycho-social evaluation and treatment, providing medical management as required. Dr. Harris made aliyah from Australia in 2007 after completing his medical training. He did a psychiatric residency at Hadassah University Hospital – Ein Kerem, Jerusalem, and served as Director of Psychiatric Clinical Services at Hadassah University Hospital – Mount Scopus, from 2013 to 2018, where he was the Emergency and Consultant Liaison. In addition, he taught psychiatry and psychopharmacology courses to medical, pharmacology, and nursing students at Hadassah’s medical school.


Dr. Harris consults and works closely with a number of Jerusalem therapists, and treats students who are referred by English-speaking yeshivot, seminaries and kollels in the city. He is a member of the Israel Medical Association (IMA), the Israel Psychiatric Association, and is a registered medical practitioner with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency.


He is co-author of “Nafshi B’Sheelati,” that deals with the interface between Mental Health and Jewish Law.

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Rabbi Ari Kahn

Rabbi Ari Kahn

Rabbi Ari Kahn is an author and educator. He lives in Givat Ze'ev, where he serves as Rabbi of the Mishkan Etrog community. He is Director of the Overseas Students Program at Bar-Ilan University, where he is a senior lecturer in Jewish Studies. His most recent book – his 12th - is called “The Crowns on the Letters”.

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HaRav Zev Leff

HaRav Zev Leff

HaRav Zev Leff shlita serves as Rav and Mara D’Atra of Moshav Matityahu, and Rosh Yeshiva and Rosh Kollel of Yeshiva Gedolah of Mattityahu. Rav Leff is one of the most revered and sought after Torah personalities in the English speaking community in Israel, and is a beloved lecturer in numerous Yeshivot and seminaries throughout Israel, and senior faculty member at OU Israel’s Avram Silver Jerusalem College for Adults.

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Rabbi Anthony Manning

Rabbi Anthony Manning

Rabbi Anthony Manning teaches in many educational institutions in Jerusalem as well as lecturing widely in Israel, England and the US. Since 2017 he has been Co-Director of Midreshet Tehillah, having moved from MMY where he was the senior rabbinic educator for many years. Rabbi Manning is also a senior lecturer at Shapell’s/Midreshet Rachel and gives a regular weekly shiur at the OU Israel Center in Jerusalem.

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Rabbi Yosef Mendelevich

‬Rabbi Yosef Mendelevich was born in Riga, and is a former refusenik, Prisoner of Zion and now is a Rabbi and educator living in Jerusalem. He first gained fame for his adherence to Judaism and public attempts to emigrate to Israel at a time when it was against the law in the USSR and started his Jewish activities in the 1960s. He formed a student group of underground Jewish Education in 1966 and became an editor of an underground newsletter Iton on Jewish issues in 1969. Being repeatedly refused the right to immigration, he became one of the leaders of the Dymshits–Kuznetsov hijacking affair, recounted in his 2012 memoir, Unbroken Spirit. As punishment, he was imprisoned for eleven years. During the imprisonment he was punished for keeping Jewish precepts. In 1981, after a worldwide struggle, he was released and immigrated to Israel.

Upon moving to Israel , he studied rigorously, at Yeshivat Mercaz HaRav and was ordained as a rabbi by Rabbi Avraham Shapira and Rabbi She'ar Yashuv Cohen. Rabbi Mendelevich continues to lecture and inspire others across the world.

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Rav Judah Mischel

Rav Judah Mischel

Rav Judah is Executive Director of Camp HASC, and Mashpiah of NCSY. The founder of Tzama Nafshi, Rav Judah & his wife Ora live in Ramat Beit Shemesh with their family.

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Rabbi Shimshon Nadel

Rabbi Shimshon HaKohen Nadel lives and teaches in Jerusalem, where he serves as Mara D'atra of Har Nof's Kehilat Zichron Yosef and as Rosh Kollel of Sinai Kollel in Rechavia. He lectures at the OU Israel Center and yeshivot and midrashot around the country. Rabbi Nadel studied Medical Halacha with renowned posek Rav Moshe David Tendler, and lectures on topics in Medicine and Halacha at Machon Tal's Nursing School. His articles on Jewish Law, Jewish History, and Religious Zionism have appeared in print in both scholarly and popular publications.

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Rabbanit Laurie Novick

Laurie Novick

Laurie Novick, Director and Head Writer of Deracheha: womenandmitzvot.org a halachic education initiative under the auspices of Yeshivat Har Etzion. She has worked as a Yoetzet Halacha for seventeen years, and has taught for many years at Nishmat. She holds degrees in Bible, Jewish Education, and Talmud and has also done graduate work in Counseling.

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Rebbetzin Zemira Ozarowski

Rebbetzin Zemira Ozarowski has been in the field of Jewish education for two decades. She currently serves as Director of Community Programming at the OU Israel Center where she runs the L’Ayla Women’s Learning Initiative. In that capacity, aside from teaching, she runs many women’s learning programs including the monthly Rosh Chodesh seminar, mother-daughter programs, mini-midrasha programs, and more. Zemira holds a master’s degree from the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education. She is also a certified Yoetzet Halacha and the author of the Torat Imecha parsha series. Zemira lives with her husband and children in Mitzpe Yericho.

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Mrs. Tzipora Piltz

Tziporah Piltz is a well-known lecturer on the Bet HaMikdash (temple). She lives in an old stone house on Har HaZeitim (the Mount of Olives) and is part of the group of women called, “Nashim Lema’an HaMikdash,” (Women for the Holy Temple), an organization that raises awareness about the Mikdash and the Har Ha’bayit (Temple Mount).
Tziporah is also a tour guide. She leads tours on Har HaZeitim which overlooks the Temple Mount and is home to the ancient 3000 year old Jewish cemetery.

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Rabbi Zecharia Resnick

Rabbi Zecharia Resnick

R' Zecharia Resnik has been living in Israel since 2007. He spends his days learning in a local Halacha kollel in Yerushalayim, where he lives with his wife and five children. At times when Zecharia isn't in kollel [or preparing the Daf!], he is involved in speaking engagements and numerous chesed projects in and around the neighborhood.

Rabbi Resnick is the Maggid Shiur of the popular podcast (accessible via the OU Torah All Daf platform) of the Quick Daf. Unlike any shiur of its kind, The Quick Daf caters to all learning styles as every word and pasuk is translated and explained and the basic background of the gemara/sugya is clarified. Furthermore, it is easy to follow The Quick Daf as the gemara is depicted and expounded upon in our unique trademark fashion: quick, clear and concise.

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HaRav Yosef Zvi Rimon

HaRav Yosef Zvi Rimon

HaRav Yosef Zvi Rimon is an internationally acclaimed posek - decisor of Jewish law – as well as an author, educator, and lecturer. Individuals and communities from around the globe turn to him regarding complex questions in Halacha, the responses of which have been pivotal in helping shape the contemporary Jewish world. Through his book series, Halacha MiMekora, Rav Rimon has become known worldwide for developing an innovative methodology for teaching Halacha, taking the reader from the sources to the practical application of Halacha in our modern reality within the framework of a user-friendly, pedagogical methodology.

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Rabbi Shalom Rosner

A graduate of Yeshiva University, Rabbi Rosner earned a BA in Economics and a Masters in Jewish Education and Administration from Azrieli. A Musmach of RIETS, Rav Rosner was a member of the Beren Kollel Elyon and a Kupietsky Kodshim Fellow.

Until his Aliyah in August 2008, Rav Rosner was a popular Maggid Shiur at Yeshiva University's Stone Beis Medrash Program and the Rabbi of Congregation Bais Ephraim Yitzchok – the "Island Shul" – for six years.

Rabbi Rosner was the visionary of the Nofei Hashemesh community in Bet Shemesh, where he is currently the Rabbi.

Rav Rosner's popular Daf Yomi, Parshat HaShavua, Nach and Sefer Hamitzvot shiurim are broadcast online and followed by thousands of global talmidim at www.OU.org or on AllDaf and AllPArsha apps.

Renowned for his ability to clarify the most complex sugyot, and beloved as a warm and caring Rebbi, Rav Rosner taught for 10 years on the staff of Yeshivat Reishit Yerushalayim, as a maggid shiur for both Shana Aleph and Bet in the Masmidim track/ advanced program.

Rabbi Rosner joined the staff at KBY in Elul 5777 giving shiurim twice a week,, and began the position of full time Ram the following year in Elul 5778.

During the summers, he is Camp Rabbi and Educational Director at Camp Kaylie. Rabbi Rosner is married to Dr. Rabannit Tamar Rosner, a pediatrician, and has 7 children.

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Rabbi Yonatan Rozensweig

Rav Yonatan Rosensweig is the Mara D'Atra of Kehilat Netzach Menashe in Beit Shemesh. Rav Yoni studied for his rabbinic ordination at Yeshivat Birkat Moshe in Maale Adumim. Rav Yoni served in the IDF in a Hesder program, in the Intelligence Corps, and finished his service with the rank of sergeant.


He has a B.A. in Education from Lifshitz College and another B.A. in Philosophy and History from the Open University, and is currently in an M.A./Ph.D. program at Bar-Ilan University. Rav Yoni spent two years as a Rosh Kollel and a community rabbi for the “young adults of Mizrahi” in Melbourne, Australia, returning to Israel in 2009.


Rav Yoni is the co-author, together with Dr. Shmuel Harris of the important work Nafshi BShealati- The Halachot of Mental Health.


Rav Yoni is married to Ilana; they have five children.

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Rebbetzin Dina Schoonmaker

Rebbetzin Dina Schoonmaker

Mrs. Dina Schoonmaker holds a B.Ed in Tanach and English from Michlalah College, a master’s degree in Jewish history from Touro College, and a pending doctorate in sociology from UKF in Slovakia. She has been a member of the Michlalah faculty for over 25 years, and has an alumnae counseling hotline for Machal graduates. Mrs. Schoonmaker is also the founder of the highly acclaimed WomensVaad.com, an interactive teleconference personal-development program for women of all ages. She resides in Yerushalayim with her husband, Rosh Yeshiva of Shapell’s/Yeshiva Darché Noam, and their children.

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Rabbi Sam Shor

Rabbi Sam Shor is the Program Director of the Seymour J. Abrams Orthodox Union Jerusalem World Center, where he oversees a vast network of educational initiatives, including Torah classes, tours and social programming for the Anglo community.

For the past two decades, Rabbi Shor has gained acclaim for his inspirational teaching, his work in adult education and as a mentor for young rabbis across the globe.

Rabbi Shor lives with his family in Yerushalayim where he is a popular Torah teacher for the English speaking community.

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Mrs. Shira Smiles

Mrs. Shira Smiles

Rebbetzin Shira Smiles is a sought after international lecturer, popular seminary teacher, and experienced curriculum developer. Rebbetzin Smiles is well known for her special teaching style, which seeks to bring understanding of Torah texts through analysis of tens of relevant sources, while making the lessons learned from every verse relevant to her students’ lives in her shiurim.
Rebbetzin Smiles teaches at Darchei Bina Seminary. In addition, Rebbetzin Smiles leads a number of women’s study group classes in Beit Shemesh, Yerushalayim, and Modiin. Rebbetzin Smiles also trains Torah teachers in special workshops all over the world.

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Professor Chaim Sukenik

Professor Chaim Sukenik

Professor Chaim Sukenik, President, Jerusalem College of Technology (JCT – Lev Academic Center)
Prof. Sukenik grew up in Miami Beach, FL and studied at Yeshiva University (BA 1972) and at Cal Tech (PhD 1976). After a postdoctoral fellowship at UCLA, he joined Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, OH) as a Professor of Chemistry and Adjunct Professor of Materials Science and Engineering. He made Aliyah in 1995, joining the Chemistry Department of Bar-Ilan University (BIU). At BIU, he established the Center for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials and held the Edward and Judy Steinberg Chair in Nanotechnology. Since his appointment as JCT’s 6th president in 2013, Prof. Sukenik has established himself as a vocal advocate for the central importance of Torah and academic excellence in the modern State of Israel.

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Rabbi Moshe Taragin

Rabbi Moshe Taragin has been a Ram at Yeshivat Har Etzion in Gush Etzion for the past 24 years. He has Semicha from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, a BA in Computer Science from Yeshiva College, and an MA in English Literature from City University. Rabbi Taragin previously taught Talmud at Columbia University, lectured in Talmud and Bible at the IBC and JSS divisions of Yeshiva University, and served as Assistant Rabbi at the Fifth Avenue Synagogue.

In addition, Rabbi Taragin currently teaches at the Stella K. Abraham Beit Midrash for Women of Yeshivat Har Etzion in Migdal Oz in Gush Etzion. He is the author of an Internet shiur entitled “Talmudic Methodology” with over 5,000 subscribers a weekly shiur on Pirkei Avot with over 1400 subscribers and has delivered hundreds of audio shiurim featured on the Yeshivat Har Etzion “Audio Beit Midrash” ( KMTT) as well as on YU Torah online.

Rabbi Taragin has authored a Yom Ha’atzmaut Machzor for Koren publishing house, and writes a weekly column for OU Israel's Torah Tidbits.

Rabbi Taragin, his wife and have 8 children and reside in Gush Etzion.

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Rabbanit Shani Taragin

Rabbanit Shani Taragin

Rabbanit Shani Taragin began her B.A. studies at Stern College and completed her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Tanach and Talmud at Bar-Ilan University. She is also a graduate of the Matan Scholar’s Program and of Nishmat’s Keren Ariel Program for certification as a halachic advisor (yoetzet halacha) in issues of family purity law. Shani is the educational director of Matan Eshkolot – Tanach Teachers’ Education Program, Mizrachi Lapidot Teachers in Torah Shebeal-Peh, and of the Morot l’Halacha program in Matan Renana. Shani has taught and continues to teach, lead tours, and coordinate programs in numerous seminaries and adult education programs in Israel (e.g. Matan, Midreshet Lindenbaum, MTVA, Sha’alvim for Women, Migdal Oz, Amit Fellows, Women’s Beit Medrash in Efrat and Ramat Bet-Shemesh). Shani serves on the advisory committee for the Mizrachi Olami Shalhevet program for shlichim and lectures worldwide on topics of Tanach, Jewish Education, and Jewish Law. Together with her husband, Rabbi Reuven Taragin, she serves as educational director for Mizrachi Olami and as Rosh Beit Medrash for the Beit Medrash Program in Machaneh Moshava Pennsylvania during the summer. Shani lives with her family in Alon Shvut, Gush Etzion-Israel.

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Rabbi Dovid'l Weinberg

Rav Dovid'l Weinberg is an educator, author and musician living in Ramot Bet with his wife Rina and their three children. He serves as a senior Rebbe for second year students at Yeshivat Orayta in the Old City of Yerushalayim and is a frequent guest lecturer across the greater Jerusalem area. His book, "Birth of the Spoken Word: Personal Prayer as the Goal of Creation," is available at tiny.cc/birth-of-the-spoken-word, and in his spare time he can sometimes be found composing original niggunim or playing with his children.

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Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb

Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb

Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb, one of the foremost leaders in Jewish life in North America and worldwide, is Executive Vice President, Emeritus of the Orthodox Union, following more than seven years as Executive Vice President. In that role, he combined the skills of pulpit rabbi, scholar, and clinical psychologist to provide extraordinary leadership to the organization and to Orthodox Judaism worldwide.
Rabbi Weinreb received his rabbinic ordination in 1962 from the Rabbi Jacob Joseph Yeshiva in New York and served as spiritual leader of Congregation Shomrei Emunah in Baltimore for 13 years, building the congregation from 160 to more than 400 families before coming to the OU. In addition, he has a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Maryland and served as a psychotherapist for mental health organizations for many years while also maintaining a private practice. His positions included roles as school psychologist for Prince George’s County Public Schools in Maryland and as Chief Psychologist of the Potomac Foundation for Mental Health.
As Executive Vice President, Rabbi Weinreb built the Orthodox Union to an unparalleled degree of esteem. He traveled widely, visiting communities and congregations across North America, in addition to his frequent trips to Europe and Israel. In these travels, he frequently served as scholar-in-residence, including some of his most enjoyable assignments, guiding NCSY summer touring groups.
Now, with more time to write, Rabbi Weinreb has authored The Person in the Parasha: Discovering the Human Element in the Weekly Torah Portion, based on his popular weekly Person in the Parsha Torah commentary, in which he combines his background as a trained psychologist and a rabbinical scholar to provide insights into the parsha that would be available from no other source. For more than two decades, he has presented his annual Tisha B’Av shiur, webcast around the world on www.ou.org and reaching an audience of thousands. Many people use the new Koren Mesorat HaRav Kinot, the complete Tisha B’Av service, with an exquisite new English translation of the Kinot, the elegies of the fast day, by Rabbi Weinreb. Rabbi Weinreb is also the editor-in-chief of the new Koren Talmud Bavli, and he has authored a commentary to Sefer Tehilim, called The Rohr Family Edition of Tehilim; also published by Koren. Rabbi Weinreb continues to travel extensively, and to write essays and commentaries for a wide variety of resources.

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Rabbi Tzvi Wohlgelernter

Rabbi Tzvi Wohlgelernter serves as the Co-Direcor and Rabbi of the Mizrachi OU-JLIC community of Givat Shmuel and Bar Ilan. He is also the Director of the English Program at the Machon HaGvoha L'Torah of Bar Ilan. He has Semicha from the Chief Rabbinate of Israel and an MA in Jewish Education from Hebrew University. He lives with his wife Tali and 4 daughters in Givat Shmuel.

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