The Jerusalem Kollel

The Jerusalem Kollel
Motto From the heart of the world, educating the nation
Formation 2002[1]
Type Kollel
Purpose Jewish Leadership
Location
  • 140 מעגלי הרי"ם לוין, Sanhedria Murchevet, Jerusalem
Membership
80+
Official language
English, Hebrew,
Rabbi Yitzchak Berkovits
Staff
11
Website www.thejerusalemkollel.com

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.[2]

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.[1]

The Dean of the Kollel is Rabbi Yitzchak Berkovits, a respected advisor on contemporary halachic issues, especially for Jerusalem’s English-speaking haredi community.[1][3] Berkovits was a student of the Mir yeshiva (Jerusalem) and served as Menahel Ruchani of Yeshivas Aish HaTorah in Jerusalem for 16 years.[4]

Staff

Roshei Chabura[7]

The Women's Program is headed by Rebbetzin Chana Kalsmith.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Jerusalem Kollel website". Retrieved 9 January 2011.
  2. Seltzer, Nachman (October 25, 2006) "To conquer the world" Hamodia Magazine Feature Section
  3. Wrobel, Sharon (2010-02-17). "Is facebook kosher?". Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 25 December 2011.
  4. Rose, Binyamin. "Learning to Care: A 'Sichas HaChag' with Rav Yitzchak Berkovits, shlita". Mishpacha, 16 May 2010, pp. 3846.
  5. 1 2 Speech given by Rabbi B. C. Dunner at U.S. Trustee's meeting, September 2011
  6. http://il.linkedin.com/in/shimonglickman
  7. Jerusalem Life Magazine, August 2007


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