OUR RABBONIM AND INSTRUCTIONAL STAFF INCLUDE:
Reb David Ariel
Reb David Ariel has a degree in Jewish Theology and Philosophy from 8 years of Rabbinical college including The Denver, Co. Yeshiva Toras Chaim, The Rabbinical College of America in Morristown NJ, and Yeshiva Karlin-Stolin in Brooklyn, NY. A Lubavitcher Chassid living in Brooklyn, He has since been involved in many outreach programs including anti-missionary work, teaching in the "Partners in Torah" national program, and traveling to the former Soviet Union (and other projects) to help bring fellow Jews closer to Torah.
Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer
Rabbi Yochanan Meir Bechhofer received his smicha from the late great Gaon Rav Shmuel Yaakov Weinberg zatza"l of Ner Yisrael in Baltimore, while simultaneously earning his MBA from Johns Hopkins University. Rosh Yeshiva of Ramat Bet Shemesh's Yeshivas Yesodos HaTorah (Foundations of Torah Institute), Rabbi Bechhofer’s erudition and depth are focused at teaching broad-based mastery in all areas of Torah.
Rabbi Dovid Bendory
Rabbi Dovid Bendory is the founder and executive director of Pidyon, a Torah-based educational organization dedicated to infusing Jewish souls with spirituality and meaning. He currently teaches The Kosher Kitchen and Hilchos Pesach for the Shema Yisrael Torah Network, weekly classes in Sefer HaChinuch and Jewish Philosophy, and a daily halacha at the Wall Street Synagogue in downtown Manhattan. Rav Dovid has previously taught Talmud, Hebrew, Tefilla (Prayer), Kashrus, Shabbos, and Jewish History.
Rabbi Avraham Chaim Bloomenstiel
A talmid of ha-Rav ha-Gaon Yaacov Meir Schechter, Rabbi Avraham Chaim Bloomenstiel learned in many of the prominent yeshivos of the Meah Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem. He received his Shimush and Semichos from ha-Rav Moshe Halberstam of the Eida ha-Chareidus and ha-Rav Don Channen of Ramat Beit Shemesh and Yeshivas Pirchei Shoshanim. Rabbi Bloomenstiel is the author of a sefer on the difficulties of geirus in our times, numerous articles on halacha, and is Rav of the Breslov Kehilla in Baltimore.
Rabbi David Botton
Rabbi David Botton serves as a Rav for Ner Avraham Bukharian Congregation in South Florida. For more than a decade he has taught classes throughout South Florida and has been one of the most active Rabbanim reaching out on the Net through projects like VirtualYeshiva.com and TeachItToMe.com.
Reb Duvid Chayim
Reb Duvid Chayim was raised in San Antonio, TX and majored in music and chemistry at the University of Texas. His experience as an awarded trombonist evolved into him becoming a Ba'al Tokiah (shofar blower). He is the past Executive Director of his New Jersey Yeshiva and is the marketing director for a NJ software company. Reb Duvid merits from teaching a shiur on the Virtual Yeshiva each Monday night.
Rabbi Phil Cohen
A member of New York City's Vaad HaRabbanim, Rabbi Phil Cohen received his BS in Applied Physics and Information Science, UC San Diego. Rabbi Cohen's formal Jewish education includes studying and teaching at Chochmat HaLev, where he completed the Jewish Meditation teachers' certification program; engaging studies in Halacha (Yora Dea, Orach Chaim and Issur v'Heter) through Pirchei Shoshanim.
Rabbi Yaakov Cohen
Director of the Torah Learning Center of San Antonio, Rabbi Yaakov Cohen studied philosophy and psychology at Cal State University, then went on to study in Jerusalem, where he received his Rabbinic Ordination. He has led post high school and adult classes and seminars in both America and Israel, and is particularly interested in the study of Kabbalah and mysticism.
Shayna Bracha Farber
Shayna Bracha Farber is from the non-objective school of art. Her art has been called visionary and prolific, expressing world peace and compassion from the heart. She began combining these techniques and sacred Kabbalah texts with art instruction in 2001. Shayna studied Kabbalistic healing techniques at the Hebrew Seminary of the Deaf in Skokie, IL as well as continuing the process of Torah study with various pious teachers.
Rabbi Bob Garber
Rabbi Bob Garber received a law degree from Columbia University and is currently the head of technology for a computer software business. He has been studying the Talmud on a daily basis for over 25 years and teaches the Jewish Flame’s ongoing Parshat HaShavua class. He also runs the Beginner’s Minyan at the Jewish Heritage Center in Queens.
Rebbetzin Susan Garber
Rebbetzin Susan Garber has a masters degree in education from Yeshiva University, and also studied at Michlellet Bruria in Jerusalem. She is the author of a book on writing (Scholastic) and has been published in many educational periodicals and in Horizons (Jewish Family Journal) magazine. She currently teaches and consults in Jewish schools throughout the tri-state area and runs a seminar for Jewish educators.
Rabbi Emanuel Gentilcore
Rabbi Emanuel Gentilcore was ordained by the Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem. He has taught and counseled for a leading Yeshiva in Jerusalem and currently runs educational programs for university students in Israel. Director of the Visiting Israel Students Association, Rabbi Gentilcore provides a whole range of Jewish programming for overseas students in long term programs.
Rabbi Nathan Glick
Director of Ashkelon's Or Hahechal, Rabbi Nathan Glick studied Kabbalah with numerous teachers in Israel, most notably Rabbi Shlomo Vaaknin (a student of Rabbi Yitzhak Kaduri), and was ordained by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel. Rabbi Nathan also holds a Masters degree in Pastoral Psychotherapy, and has over 20 years experience as a counselor.
Rabbi Shalom Gold
Rosh Yeshiva of Jerusalem's Rabbi Akiva Yeshiva and a founder of Yeshivat Bircas HaTorah in Jerusalem's Old City, Rabbi Shalom Gold is the creator of the "DikDukBuk" method of learning the Hebrew language. He serves on the Board of Directors for Kids for Kids, Israel's youth organization for the recovery of young victims of terrorism, founded by the Rebbetzin, Yeshara Gold.
Rabbi Yossi Goodman
Rabbi Yossi Goodman studied in Yeshivas in the United States, Canada, and Australia where he received his Rabbinical Ordination. He works in association with the Virtual Yeshiva as Director of The Online School for Chabad's Shluchim office with over 150 children and 30 teachers worldwide. He still learns everyday and works with teenagers every night at Yeshivah Chnoch Lenar in Crown Heights.
Rabbi Noson Gurary
Rabbi Noson Gurary teaches Jewish traditions and contemporary Jewish issues at Rockland Community College, and is the founder of the National Institute of Judaic Law in Washington, DC. A Lubavitch rabbi, he has taught Jewish law at the SUNY Buffalo Law School.
Rabbi Benjamin Hecht
Rabbi Benjamin Hecht is the Founding Director of NISHMA and is recognized throughout North America and Israel for his study. His work has been published internationally. In addition to his rabbinical ordination, he holds degrees in law, psychology and business. Rabbi Hecht is active in Nishma's ongoing research and education projects and is about to complete a new book on Jewish identity.
Rabbi Gil Hirsch
Rabbi Gil Hirsh studied at the Newark Yeshiva (Morristown's Rabbinical College of America) then moved to Crown Heights in 1962, receiving his Rabbinical Ordination at the 770 Yeshiva. Focusing his efforts toward kiruv, Rabbi Gil and the Rebbitzen have opened their home every Shabbos since 1967 to Ba'alei Teshuva visiting the community, now numbering into the thousands.
Rabbi Mat Hoffman
Rabbi Mat Hoffman received his rabbinical ordination in 1988 and is studying for an advanced rabbinic degree. His rabbinic work has been featured in the New York Times, the Gannett newspapers and the Jewish Week. He has a psychology degree from the University of Michigan and a law degree from Columbia University.
Rabbi Zvi Homnick
After learning in yeshivos such as Chaim Berlin, Mir in Yerushalayim, and Lakewood, Rabbi Zvi Homnick changed tracks and became a Lubavitcher Chasid. He is a renowned lecturer and educator, instrumental in creating the first youth-center for at-risk youth in an Orthodox community. He lives in Boro Park and offers private counseling for marriage and chinuch related issues.
Prof. Vendyl Jones
Professor Vendyl Jones, one of the leading teachers in Noahide Community, still searches for the Ark of the Covenant. In 1988, Vendyl located the Shemen Afarshimon (Holy Anointing Oil), and in 1992, a compound of the eleven ingredients which make up the Holy Incense. Vendyl leads a weekly on-line presentation and discussion for B'nei Noach. Founder of the Vendyl Jones Research Institutes, he utilizes Biblical archaeology, geography, history, Rabbinical linguistics and hermeneutical principles of interpretation of the Bible to correct misinformation against Judaism, the Jewish people and the State of Israel.
Reb Israel Katz
Reb Israel Katz was born in the woods of the Bronx and raised in the confusion of assimilation. He studied at the New School for Social Research in NYC, and majored in creative painting, poetry and philosophy. A Baal Teshuvah at age forty, “Izzy” has been working as a Moshgiach (Kashrut supervisor) since 1991 for local schools, the JCC, caterers, butchers, bakers, cruise ships, and Pesach pasta makers, in South Florida.
Rabbi Mordecai Kornfeld
Rabbi Mordecai Kornfeld is founder and Rosh Kollel of Kollel Iyun Hadaf, and has been teaching Torah in Israel for over ten years. A close disciple of Hagaon Rav Yisroel Zev Gustman, zt'l, Rabbi Kornfeld works tirelessly on behalf of Torah dissemination. He was one of the first Rabbis to use the Internet to teach Torah, as his innovative insights in the Weekly Parasha-Page and has been e-mailed to thousands of readers across the globe since 1993.
Rabbi Meir Leibowitz
Rabbi Meir Leibowitz is pursuing a Masters in Jewish Education, and teaches in Jewish schools in Queens. He has studied extensively in Jewish History and recently received rabbinical ordination from Yeshiva University.
Rabbi Yehoishophot Oliver
Rabbi Yehoishophot Oliver studied in Yeshiva Gedola, Melbourne, Austalia; Yeshiva of Tzfat, Israel; Yeshiva Gedola of Sydney, Austalia; Central Yeshiva of 770 Eastern Parkway, New York. He received Rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Yehuda Yeruslavski of Nachlas Har Chabad, Israel.
Reb Jeff Osias
A native of Lyndhurst, New Jersey, Jeff was graduated from the RCA Institutes of Technology and worked post-production for "Saturday Night Live," "The Conan O'Brien Show," and more with 13 years at WNEW radio and 26 years at NBC radio and television. A "baal tshuva," he has eleven children, the chutzpah to continue his career and work on programs that often push our society's moral and cultural envelope while remaining an Orthodox Jew.
Rabbi Eli Rokach
Born and raised in Israel, Rabbi "Elirok" studied in yeshivot in Jerusalem, then received a Masters Degree in Education and graduate studies in the US at Yeshiva University. A principal of various Hebrew day schools in Miami and Toronto, he has directed educational projects in Eastern Europe, and often invited as guest speaker at various congregations throughout North America. He now serves community Rabbi in Toronto, where he regularly officiates at weddings and teaches Torah.
Rabbi Ben-Tzion Saloff
Rabbi Ben-Tzion Saloff is the director of Mevakshei Hashem outreach, as well as a new educational organization called "Torah In Science / Science In Torah." After years of outreach to Jews in difficult situations like drug habits and cults, Rabbi Saloff is now acting as a laison between Jewish scientists, toward the end of spreading G-dly knowledge through the use of developing scientific knowledge. His weekly on-line teaching and discussion focuses on varying Chassidic texts on perfecting our Divine service.
Rabbi Aharon Schenkolewski
Rabbi Aharon Schenkolewski of Modiin Ilit studied in Telz Yeshiva in Chicago and has been living in Eretz Yisrael for 13 years. He has been tested on Issur V'heter by Harav Moshe Halberstam zt"l. He is the contributing editor of Pirchei Shoshanim's Issur V'heter Project and posts audio shiurim on Issur V'heter as an adjunct to the written shiurim.
Rabbi Eliezer Schwartz
Rabbi Eliezer Schwartz graduated from Yeshiva College and received his smicha from Yeshivas Rabenu Yitzchak Elchanan at the hands of HaRav Samurel Belkin, HaRav Moshe Stazkes (Lomzer Rav) and HaRav Yosef Ber Soloveitchik, then continued his graduate studies at Rutgers University. Having been a practicing Rabbi in PA and NJ, he has written and lectured extensively on Torah, halacha, hashkafa as well as having authored articles on commodity and technical analysis.
Rabbi Michoel Seligson
Rabbi Michoel Seligson is the Mashpia (Spiritual Mentor) of the Crown Heights' Talmudical Seminary Oholei Torah. A noted teacher, author and compiler of Sefer Mafteach Inyonim Lesichot Kodesh and Hilchot Hachag B`chag, Rabbi Seligson has inspired a generation with his teaching, stories and insights.
Rabbi Moshe Shulman
Rabbi Moshe Shulman has been active in "Kiruv Rechokim" (Jewish Outreach), teaching Torah and Chassidus for over a decade in Chassidic Yeshivos in Brooklyn, New York. He is well known for his counter-missionary work with Outreach Judaism and the Messiah Truth Project, and is the founder of Judaism's Answer.
Reb J.Z. Siegel
Reb J.Z. Siegel learned at Yeshivos in Baltimore, Monsey, and Long Beach, New York. He also studied at the Miami Beach Community Kollel while earning a doctorate in forensic psychology, and currently works at a forensic psychiatric hospital and as clinical coordinator at a drug addiction program. He is a regular guest lecturer for the North Miami Beach Kollel.
Chana Bracha Siegelbaum
Chana Bracha Siegelbaum is the Founder and Director of Midreshet B’erot Bat Ayin. She holds a Bachelor of Education in Bible and Jewish Philosophy from Michlala Jerusalem College for Women, and a Masters of Art in Jewish History from Touro College.
Rabbi Tovia Singer
Rabbi Tovia Singer is the national director of Outreach Judaism, an international organization dedicated to countering the efforts of groups and cults who specifically target Jews for conversion, and the author of the "Let's Get Biblical" tape series and Study Guide. Host of Israel National Radio's "Tovia Singer Show," he is a frequent keynote speaker, and guest on television and radio shows across the US and Israel.
Rabbi Efraim Sprecher
Rabbi Efraim Sprecher received smicha from Yeshivas Torah VaDaas and is a Talmid of HaRav Yaakov Kamenetsky and HaRav Gedaliah Shor. Rabbi Sprecher was a Professor of Judaic studies at Touro College in New York and has continued to lecture and teach Judaic studies in Israel for many years. He writes a monthly column on various Judaic issues.
Rabbi Ariel Bar Tzadok
Rabbi Ariel Bar Tzadok immigrated to Israel in 1979, and studied in some of the finest Sephardic yeshivot in Jerusalem. In June 1983, Rabbi Ariel received his Rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Ya’aqob Peretz, Rosh Yeshiva of Kollel Hekhal Pinhas. He established Yeshivat Benei N’vi’im in 1992 to serve as an anti-missionary, anti-cult organization; to address the growing concerns of spiritual misguidance and misinformation that is pervasive in the Jewish community at large.
Miriam Ben-Yaacov
Miriam Ben-Yaacov spent thirteen years of yeshivot Torah study in Jerusalem and Safed, and has herself been teaching Torah and writing for the B'nai Noach community for many years. She is presently living in Texas, where she is working with Vendyl Jones Research Institutes.
Rabbi Ezriel Yellin
Rabbi Ezriel Yellin received Smicha from HaRav Yaacov Rosenthal and HaRav Daniel Channen. After many years of involvement with different Jewish youth organizations, he made Aliya and studied at Yeshivas Ohr Somaych in Jerusalem. He gives shiurim on different topics, is an editor and Maggid Shiur for the Yeshivas Pirchei Shoshanim Shulchan Aruch Project, and is a member of ZAKA Rescue and Recovery.
Rebbetzin Miriam Yellin
Rebbetzin Miriam Yellin attended Neve Yerushalayim Women's Seminary, following several years of study at David Yellin Teacher's College in Jerusalem. She presents an original weekly discourse on proper communication within the family and raising a family to Torah standards, along with her beshert, Rabbi Ezriel Yellin.
Reb Yuval Yisrael
A former evangelical pastor and messianic leader for 20 years, Reb Yuval Yisrael made his journey back to the faith of his forefathers at age 40, immigrated to Israel in 2007 with his wife Ya’el and now reside in Jerusalem where he attends the prestigious Machon Meir Yeshiva. Yuval is actively involved in restoring Jewish and Gentile identity as Director of the non-profit outreach, The JeruShalom Project, Inc.
Rebbetzin Tamar Yonah
Tamar Yonah is radio show host, producer and Senior News Correspondent for Arutz Sheva: Israel National Radio. One of the most outspoken voices in Israel, Tamar is an activist, a settler, and a Rebbetzin. A major supporter of Nefesh b'Nefesh, she also assists with immigrant absorption in her community as well as Israel at large.
Prof. Uri Yosef
Professor Uri Yosef was born, raised, and educated in Israel, and completed his higher education (Ph.D. and M.B.A.) in the US. A researcher, scholar, and former tenured professor, Uri speaks at various Jewish venues about the efforts to counter Christian missionary groups. Uri's background in languages includes: Hebrew (native tongue), English, German, and Yiddish on a fluent level; Arabic, Aramaic, Portuguese, and Spanish, and ASL (American Sign Language) at various levels of proficiency.
Rabbi Tal Moshe Zwecker
Formerly of Oceanside Long Island in New York, Rabbi Tal Moshe Zwecker is a Nadvorna Chassid close to the Clevelander Rebbe of Ra'anana. He teaches in Ramat Bet Shemesh, Israel on a variety of topics from Shabbos Drashos, Shalosh Seudos Torah, Chassidus, Mussar, Jewish Meditation and on topics in modern and contemporary Halachah, in his goal to spread the teachings of Classical Chassidus throughout the world.
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