List of rosh yeshivas

This is a list of current rosh yeshivas, or leaders of Jewish Talmudic academies.

This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.

Australia

• Yeshivah Gedolah Zal – Rabbi Binyomin Gavriel Cohen
• Yeshivah Centre, Melbourne
• Yeshivah Centre, Sydney

Canada

• Birchas Shmuel of Toronto – Rabbi Yehoshua Schwartz
• Ner Yisroel of Toronto – Rabbis Uri S. Mayerfeld and Meyer D. Greenberger
• Or Chaim – Rabbi Seth N. Grauer^[1]
• Tomchei Temimim Montreal (Rabbinical College of Canada) – Rabbi Aryeh Leib Kaplan
• Yeshiva Darchei Torah of Toronto – Rabbi Eliezer Breitowitz
• Yeshivas Nachlas Tzvi of Toronto – Rabbi Kaplan
• Yeshivas Zichron Shmayahu of Toronto – Rabbi Brodsky

France

• Novardok yeshiva, Armentières-en-Brie – Rabbi Eliyahu Marciano ^[2]
• Novardok yeshiva, Bussières, Seine-et-Marne – Rabbi Natan Yabra

Israel

• Aish HaTorah – Rabbi Yosef Hillel Weinberg
• Ateret Cohanim – Rabbi Shlomo Aviner
• Bais Yisroel – Rabbis Doniel Lehrfield and Moshe Lehrfield
• Beit El Yeshiva (Yeshivat ha’Mekubalim) – Rabbi Yisrael Avichai
• Beit El yishuv yeshiva – Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed
• Beit Hatalmud – Rabbi Yosef Strasser
• Beit Orot – Rabbis Elchanan Bin Nun and Dani Isaac
• Bircas Hatorah – Rabbi Shimon Green
• Conservative Yeshiva – Rabbis Shmuel (Richie) Lewis, Pesach Schindler, and Joel Roth
• Derech Etz Chaim – Rabbi Aharon Katz
• Hebron Yeshiva – Rabbi Dovid Cohen
• Heichal Hatorah – Rabbi Tzvi Kushelevsky
• Kamenitz yeshiva – Rabbi Yitzchok Scheiner
• Kerem B'Yavneh – Rabbi Mordechai Greenberg
• Knesses Hagedolah – Rabbi Yitzchak Zev Zaks
• Kol Torah – Rabbi Moshe Yehuda Schlesinger
• Lakewood East – Rabbi Yaakov Eliezer Schwartzman
• Machon Yaakov – Rabbi Beryl Gershenfeld
• Machon Meir – Rabbi Dov Begon
• Machon Shlomo – Rabbi Beryl Gershenfeld
• Marbeh Torah – Rabbis Shmuel Weissman and Naftoli Elzas
• Mayanot – Rabbi Yisroel Noach Wichnin
• Medrash Chaim – Rabbi Yisrael Garber
• Mercaz HaRav – Rabbi Yaakov Shapira
• Mercaz HaTorah – Rabbi Aryeh Rottman
• Mesoras Mordechai – Rabbi Tzvi Feuer
• Midrash Shmuel – Rabbi Binyomin Moskovits
• Mir Yeshiva – Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel
• Netiv Aryeh – Rabbi Aharon Bina
• Ohr Somayach, Jerusalem – Rabbi Nota Schiller
• Pachad Yitzchok – Rabbi Yonason David
• Ponevezh Yeshiva – Rabbis Boruch Dov Povarsky, Gershon Edelshtein, Chaim Shlomo Leibovitch, Eliezer Kahaneman, Shmuel Markowitz
• Reishis Yerushalayim - Rabbi Ari Marcus
• Sfas Emes Yeshiva – Rabbi Shaul Alter
• Sha'alvim – Rabbi Yechezkel Yaakovson
• Shaar Hashamayim Yeshiva – Rabbi Gamliel Rabinowitz
• Slabodka yeshiva (Bnei Brak) – Rabbis Dov Landau and Moshe Hillel Hirsch^[3]
• Toldos Yeshurun – Rabbi Ben Tzion Zilber
• Torah Ore – Rabbi Simcha Scheinberg
• Toras Moshe – Rabbi Moshe Meiselman
• Yeshiva Gedolah Matityahu – Rabbi Zev Leff
• Yeshivat Chasidei Chabad Beit Levi Yitzchak – Rabbi Yosef Wilshansky
• Yeshivat Derech Chochmah – Rabbis Eliezer Silver, Yonatan Vilensky
• Yeshivat HaKotel – Rabbi Baruch Vider
• Yeshivat Har Etzion – Rabbis Aharon Lichtenstein, Yaaqov Medan, Baruch Gigi, and Moshe Lichtenstein.
• Yeshivat Heichal HaTora – Rabbi Zvi Kushelevsky
• Yeshivat Hesder Petach Tikva – Rabbis Yuval Sherlo, David Stav and Shai Piron
• Yeshivat Ma'ale Gilboa – Rabbis David Bigman, Yehuda Gilad, Shmuel Reiner
• Yeshivat Ma’alot – Rabbi Yehushua Weitzman
• Yeshivat Torat Shraga – Rabbi Avishai David
• Yeshivat Yishrei Lev – Rabbi Moshe Gordon

South Africa

• Yeshiva College of South Africa (High School) – Rabbi Avraham Tanzer
• Yeshivah Gedolah of Johannesburg – Rabbi Avi Goldfein
• Yeshiva Pri Eitz Chaim – Rabbi Ber Eichenstein
• Yeshiva Meshech Chochma – Rabbi Shimon Wolpe

United Kingdom

• Gateshead Yeshiva – Rabbi Avrohom Gurwicz
• Sunderland Yeshiva, Gateshead - Rabbi Avrohom Ehrentreu
• Yeshivas Shaarei Torah, Manchester - Rabbi Gavriel Knopfler

United States

• Bais Moshe – Rabbis Yakov Schneidman and Chaim Bressler
• Beth Hatalmud Rabbinical College – Rabbi Chaim Leib Perkovsky
• Beth Medrash Govoha – Rabbis Malkiel Kotler, Yerucham Olshin, Dovid Schustal, and Yisroel Neuman
• Central Yeshiva Tomchei Tmimim Lubavitch – Rabbi Zalman Labkowski
• Chofetz Chaim, Kew Gardens Hills – Rabbis Dovid Harris and Akiva Grunblatt
• Chofetz Chaim, Suffern – Rabbis Aryeh Zev Zaks and Yisroel Mayer Zaks
• Hadar Hatorah – Rabbi Yaakov Goldberg
• Hebrew Theological College, Beis Medrash LeTorah (Skokie Yeshiva) – Rabbi Avraham Friedman
• Kol Yaakov Torah Center – Rabbi Dovid Stefansky
• Kollel Makarov – Rabbi Zvi Tversky
• Mesivta Tiferes Yisroel – Rabbis Zvi Turk and Yehuda Jacobson
• Mesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem – Rabbi Dovid Feinstein
• Mir yeshiva (Brooklyn) – Rabbi Avraham Yaakov Nelkenbaum
• Ohr Chadash D'Prag, Monroe – Rabbi Yosef Schwartz
• Ohr Elchonon Chabad – Rabbi Ezra Schochet
• Ohr Somayach, Monsey – Rabbis Yisroel Rokowsky and Yisroel Simcha Schorr
• Ohr Yisrael of Atlanta – Rabbi Mayer Neuberger
• Rabbi Chaim Berlin – Rabbis Aharon Schechter and Yonason David
• Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary – Rabbis J. David Bleich, Yitzchok Cohen, Meir Goldwicht, Dovid Hirsh, Aharon Lichtenstein, Yaakov Neuburger, Hershel Reichman, Michael Rosensweig, Hershel Schachter, Eli Baruch Shulman, Zvi Sobolofsky, Moshe Dovid Tendler, Mayer Twersky, Jeremy Wieder, Mordechai Willig
• Satmar (Borough Park-based Satmar yeshiva in Sea Gate) – Rabbi Chaim Yaakov Rubin^[4]
• Sh'or Yoshuv – Rabbi Naftali Jaeger
• Talmudical Institute of Upstate New York – Rabbi Menachem Davidowitz
• Talmudical Seminary Oholei Torah – Rabbi Yisroel Freidman
• Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia – Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky
• Telshe yeshiva (Chicago) – Rabbis Avraham Chaim Levin and Chaim Dov Keller
• Telshe yeshiva (Wickliffe) – Rabbis Aizik Ausband, Zalman Gifter, and Ari Wolf
• Tomchei Tmimim Morristown (aka Rabbinical College of America) – Rabbi Zalman Wilshansky
• Torah Academy of Bergen County – Rabbi Yosef Adler
• Torah Temimah – Rabbis Lipa Margolis^[5]and Shlomo Feivel Schustal
• Torah Vodaas – Rabbi Yosef Savitsky
• Toras Chaim (Denver) – Rabbis Yisroel Meir Kagan and Yitzchok Wasserman
• Valley Torah High School – Rabbi Avrohom Stulberger
• Yeshiva Gedola of Bridgeport – Rabbi Simcha Bunim Berger
• Yeshiva Gedola of Passaic – Rabbi Meir Stern
• Yeshiva Gedolah of the Five Towns – Rabbi Moshe Zev Katzenstein
• Yeshiva Gedolah Ohr Yisrael of West Park – Rabbis Avraham Nesanel Zucker and Raphael Bernstein
• Yeshiva Gedolah Zichron Moshe (South Fallsburg) – Rabbi Elya Ber Wachtfogel
• Yeshiva Ketana of Los Angeles – Rabbis Aryeh Davidowitz and Aharon Rubenstein
• Yeshiva of Far Rockaway – Rabbi Yechiel Yitzchok Perr
• Yeshiva of Staten Island – Rabbi Reuven Feinstein
• Yeshiva Ohr Hameir of Peekskill – Rabbi Elya Kanarek
• Yeshiva Tiferes Hatorah – Rabbi Yoel Roth and Rabbi Avrom Moshe Strasser
• Yeshiva Toras Emes / Kaminetz – Rabbi Yechiel Yitzchok Perr and Rabbi Dr. Arnold I. Wolf
• Yeshiva V'Kollel Beis Moshe Chaim – Rabbi Yochanan Zweig
• Yeshivas Beis Dovid Shlomo – Rabbi Yosef Kalmanson
• Yeshivas Ner Yisroel – Rabbis Aharon Feldman, Yissocher Frand, and Nosson Nussbaum
• Yeshivat Chovevei Torah – Mr. Dov Linzer
• Yisodei Yisroel – Rabbi Dovid Rubin

References

1. "Administration". bastoronto.org. Bnei Akiva Schools. 2016.
2. Tuchmayer, Avi (Sep 15, 2013). "Novardok in the French Countryside". Ami (136): 140–151.
3. Hamodia. Dec/5/12. p. D40.
4. Rapaport, Yosef (Dec/5/12). Hamodia. p. D13.
5. Hamodia. Dec/5/12. p. C51.