Yehuda Susman, Rosh HaYeshivaSemicha Rabanut HaRashit L’Yisrael/RIETS, BA Computer Science, Philosophy, Yeshiva University.Email: ysusman@yehatzvi.org |
Rav Susman taught and served as Rosh Kollel at Yeshivat HaMivtar, until his shlichut as Rosh Kollel of the Kollel Torah Mitzion in Chicago where he was active in the formation of learning and Bet Midrash programs on the Northwestern and University of Chicago campuses. Immediately after his aliya in 1983, he served in the IDF Tank Corps. In addition to his never ending involvement in Eretz HaTzvi, Rav Susman is currently pursuing his PhD on the Halachic methodology of Rav Moshe Feinstein at Bar Ilan University. |
Dovid Ebner, Rosh Yeshiva and Mashgiach RuchaniSemicha RIETS, BA Sociology – MHL –Ph.D. Yeshiva University, ABD in Sociology, Fordam UniversityEmail: debner@yehatzvi.org |
Rav Ebner is known throughout Israel as one of the most inspiring senior educators. He taught for over twenty years as a Rosh Yeshiva and Mashgiach Ruchani in Yeshivat HaMivtar. He served as an Assistant Professor of Sociology as well as the Assistant Director of the Institute for Jewish life of UJC before his aliya in 1982. He was one of the founders of ATID and served as one of its Senior Mentors. He is the author of two collections of poetry: The Library of Everything , on Jewish themes and Perhaps This Poem. He has served in the IDF, and lives in Yerushayim. |
Benni Pflanzer, Director and RaMBSc, Engineering Michlala L’Minhal Yerushalayim, MA equiv. Education Machon Gavoha Merchavim, Yerushayim.Email: bpflanzer@yehatzvi.org |
A native of Yerushalayim, R’ Benni made a career change seven years ago, leaving a management position in one of Yerushalayim’s largest construction companies to enter the field of Jewish education. He is a sought after educator for Israelis and Americans and has tought at the Ida Crown Jewish Academy in Chicago, Yeshivat Reishit Yerushalayim, and Yeshivat Bnei Akiva in Yerushalayim. He has been a popular Rav Machane in Camp Moshava, Wildrose, Wisconsin. A captain in the IDF’s paratroop corp., he served as operations officer for the IDF officer training program. |
Tuvia (Todd) Berman, Director of Admissions and RaMSemicha Yeshivat HaMivtar, Yeshivat Har Etzion, B.S. Computer Science Columbia University Graduate Studies Jewish History, Harvard UniversityEmail: tberman@yehatzvi.org |
Rav Berman has held numerous posts in education from the high school level through adult education. He founded the Jewish Learning Initiative (JLI) at Brandeis University and served as rabbinic advisor to the Orthodox community there for several years. Previously, he was a RaM at Midreshet Lindenbaum where he also served as the Rav of the dormitory. Rav Berman's expertise and wide ranging experience with university campus life uniquely qualifies him as the of our college preparatory seminar. |
Avraham Blidstein, Rosh Kollel Community Beit Midrash & RaMYeshivat Har Etzion, Hebrew UniversityEmail: ablidstein@yehatzvi.org |
Rav Blidstein serves both as a RaM and directs the twenty graduates of Yeshivot Hesder participating in our advanced community Kollel program. The Kollel Kehillati is the first program of its kind in Israel. 20 post-Hesder university students live, learn, and teach in the yeshiva and serve as models and mentors to the entire Katamon community. Previously Rav Blidstein taught for over ten years in the Yeshivat Hesder in Yerucham. In addition to his full schedule in the yeshiva, Rav Blidstein is actively involved in Tzohar - an organization which seeks to bridge the gap between religious and non-religous in Israel. |
Simcha Krauss, RaM & Advanced Halacha ProgramSemicha Yoreh Yoreh and Yadin Yadin from Yeshivas R' Chaim Berlin, BA City College, MA The New School of Social ResearchEmail: skrauss@yehatzvi.org |
Rav Krauss was a Maggid Shiur in Yeshiva University's IBC program for over two decades. He has also served on the Political Science faculty at both St. Louis University and Utica College of Syracuse University. A highly regarded pulpit rabbi, Rav Krauss served for many years at the Young Israel of Hillcrest, the Young Israel of St. Louis, and Congregation House of Jacob of Utica, N.Y. Rabbi Krauss served as the president of the Religious Zionists of America before his aliyah in 2005. |
Moti Novick, RaM Halacha, Night Seder CoordinatorSemicha RIETS, Rabanut, Yeshivat Har Etzion, BA Princeton University, MA RevelEmail: mnovick@yehatzvi.org |
Rav Novick has devoted the past ten years to learning and teaching Torah in Israel and the United States. An alumnus of the Semicha Honors Program at RIETS and of the Kollel Gavoah at Yeshivat Har Etzion, he has served as rabbinic intern in Princeton University and has held teaching positions at Yeshivat Har Etzion and Yeshivat Torat Shraga. He is currently completing a Teacher's Degree from the Herzog Teacher's College in Alon Shevut |
Aviad Tabory, RaM Gemara, Halacha, and MachshavaSemicha Rabanut, BA Herzog College, Yeshivat Or Etzion, Yeshivat Har EtzionEmail: atabory@yehatzvi.org |
Rav Aviad has taught at several yeshivot and seminaries in Israel, including: Orot, Midreshet Lindenbaum, and Midreshet HaRova. He also served as Rav Shaliach for Bnei Akiva in the United Kingdom and Rav of Kehillat Alei Tzion in London and was a Rav Mechanech at Camp Moshava Stone, Rav on Machal, TVI, and Moshava Indian Orchard and Chinuch Director of Mach Hach. Rav Aviad serves a reservist in IDF Tank Corps. |
Jonathan Bailey, RaM Tanach, Night Seder CoordinatorSemicha Yeshivat HaMivtar, BA Yeshiva UniversityEmail: jbailey@yehatzvi.org |
Rav Bailey taught for several years at Yeshivat Rambam in Baltimore. He has recently been awarded the prestigious Grinspoon-Steinhardt Award for Excellence in Jewish Education In addition to teaching in Yeshiva, Rav Bailey in in the process of publishing a a step-by-step guide to reading Gemara? |
Zvi Grumet, Director of Tanach ProgramSemicha RIETS, BA Computer Science, MA, Brooklyn College, Jewish Education, Yeshiva University.Email: zgrumet@yehatzvi.org |
Rav Zvi Grumet has more than two decades of experience in both formal and informal education, as both a teacher and school administrator, and has developed an international reputation, particularly in his approach to Tanach. |
Alex Israel, Ram, Tanach and Machshava ProgramsSemicha Yeshivat Har Etzion, BA Computer Studies and Education, London UniversityEmail: aisrael@yehatzvi.org |
Rav Alex Israel is Senior Lecturer in Tanach at Midreshet Lindenbaum and at Michlelet Orot. He is an active participant in the work of Tzohar an organization of young Rabbis whose aim is to bridge the gap between the religious and secular communities in Israel. He is currently studying towards his MA in Talmud at Bar Ilan University. |
Shlomo Dov Rosen, RaM, Tanach and Machshava FacultyYeshivot Har Etzion, Chevron, Yad Aharon, Merkaz, Har HaMor, B.A. in philosophy Hebrew UniversityEmail: srosen@yehatzvi.org |
Rav Rosen has taught shiurim in Machshava and Chaburot in Gemara for several years in Yeshivat Har Etzion. He is completing his M.A. in philosophy at The Hebrew University. |