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The Jerusalem Kollel

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Formation
  
2002

Purpose
  
Jewish Leadership

Official language
  
English, Hebrew,

Staff
  
11

Type
  
Kollel

Membership
  
80+

Rosh Kollel
  
Phone
  
+972 2-582-1383

Founded
  
2002

Location
  
140 מעגלי הרי"ם לוין, Sanhedria Murchevet, Jerusalem

Address
  
Ma'agalei ha-Rim Levin St 35, Jerusalem

Motto
  
From the heart of the world, educating the nation

The jerusalem kollel


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.

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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.

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

Staff

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

  • 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

    The Jerusalem Kollel Wikipedia