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.Seltzer, Nachman (October 25, 2006) "To conquer the world" Hamodia Magazine Feature Section 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. , 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.
The Dean of the Kollel is Rabbi Yitzchak Berkovits, a respected advisor on contemporary halachic issues, especially for Jerusalem’s English-speaking haredi community. 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.Rose, Binyamin. "Learning to Care: A 'Sichas HaChag' with Rav Yitzchak Berkovits, shlita". Mishpacha, 16 May 2010, pp. 38–46. In August 2019, he was named rosh yeshiva, of Yeshivas Aish HaTorah a position that had been vacant since the 2009 death of founding dean, Rabbi Noah Weinberg."A New Rosh Yeshivat at Aish", Ami, August 7, 2019, p. 62."
Staff Dean: Rabbi Yitchak Berkovits (Rosh Yeshivah - Aish Jerusalem; Nasi - AISH Global) CEO: Rabbi Yaakov Blackman (formerly Director of Education, Yeshivas Aish HaTorah)Speech given by Rabbi B. C. Dunner at U.S. Trustee's meeting, September 2011 Director of Resource Development: Rabbi Josh Boretsky (formerly Director of the Jewel Women's educational program)
Adjunct staff Jerusalem Life Magazine, August 2007 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.
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