Rabbi Chaim Brovender is the Rosh Yeshiva of WebYeshiva and President of ATID —The Academy for Torah Initiatives and Directions in Jewish Education, in Jerusalem. He was the founding Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Hamivtar and Michlelet Bruria (today, Midreshet Lindenbaum) where he pioneered the teaching of Gemara to students for whom the Talmud had been a closed book. For over forty years he has been a leading force in teaching Torah in Israel and enabling his students to "learn how to learn" according to the renowned "Brovender Method."
Naomi Berman has a B.A. from Stern College, was a Bruria Scholar and studied in the Talmud department at Bar Ilan University. She and her husband Todd pioneered the Jewish Learning Initiative (a program co-sponsored by the OU and Hillel) view complete profile
Rabbi Yitzchak Blau teaches at Midreshet Lindenbaum and the Orayta Yeshiva and has previously taught at Yeshivat Hamivtar and at the Yeshivah of Flatbush High School. He has published articles on many areas of Jewish thought as well as view complete profile
Rabbi Avraham Chira received smicha from Rabbi Benayahu Shmueli, Rosh Yeshivat HaMekubalim, Nahar Shalom, in Jerusalem. He has been a student and teacher in the Yeshiva since 1993. He has taught for twelve years at the Berot Bat view complete profile
Emuna Diamond grew up on the west coast of Canada, and has a BA in Religious Studies from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, with a specialization in Judaic Studies. She also studied, and later tutored at Midreshet Rachel view complete profile
Rabbi Shimon Felix was born in New York, and has lived in Jerusalem since 1973. He received his rabbinic ordination from Yeshivat Hamivtar, where he served as educational director. Rabbi Felix has worked in a wide variety of educational programs view complete profile
In addition to being one of Rabbi Brovender's first students, Rabbi Dovid Fink is an outstanding expert and teacher of Halacha. Rabbi Fink received his Rabbinic ordination from ITRI and the Mir and was awarded his Ph.D in Semitic Languages and view complete profile
Dr. Yoel Finkelman is Director of Research and Projects at ATID and teaches Talmud and Jewish thought at Midreshet Lindenbaum in Jerusalem. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. view complete profile
Rabbi Stuart Fischman graduated from Yeshiva University in 1980 and the dental school of Columbia University in 1985. Since 1989 he has been studying and teaching at Yeshivat Hamivtar in Efrat. He has rabbinic ordination from Rav Zalman Nechemia Goldberg. view complete profile
Rabbi Yehoshua Geller received Smicha from Rav Mordechai Elefant zt"l and the ITRI Yeshiva, where he was a Talmid for many years. Currently the Rosh Beit Medrash of the English Speakers' Program at the Jerusalem College of Technology/Machon Lev, Rabbi view complete profile
Rabbi Daniel Goldstein is a member of the faculty of Midreshet Amit in Jerusalem. Prior to his Aliya in 2007, He served as Rabbi of Kingsway Jewish Center in Brooklyn, NY. Rabbi Goldstein received his BA and Semicha from RIETS view complete profile
Ilana Goldstein Saks, a graduate of the ATID Fellowship Program, earned an M.A. in Tanach from Bar-Ilan University and studied a number of years as a Bruriah Scholar at Midreshet Lindenbaum. She has taught at Machon Pardes, Midreshet Lindenbaum and view complete profile
Born and raised in New Jersey, Leah Golomb grew up in a Modern Orthodox home, where she was encouraged to ask questions. She has been a mikva lady and a Kalla teacher for over 26 years. Over the last 5 years Leah has been concentrating on view complete profile
Rav Herzl Hefter is a graduate of Yeshiva University where he learned under the tutelage of Rav Yerucham Gorelikזצ"ל and Rav Yosef Dov Soloveichik זצ''ל. For the next ten years, Rav Hefter continued his Torah studies at Yeshivat view complete profile
Allison Josephs is the founder of jewinthecity.com which aims to break down stereotypes and misconceptions about Orthodox Jews and Judaism through the power of new media. Allison was raised as a proud Conservative Jew in a small town in view complete profile
Rabbi Shlomo Katz was born in Englewood, New Jersey but spent most of his growing years in Raanana, Israel. As a teenager, Shlomo returned to Los Angeles with his family and there became active with Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach's Happy Minyan view complete profile
Bracha Krohn holds a B.A. in Judaic Studies and English Literature from Stern College. She is pursuing her M.A. in Bible from Yeshiva University's Bernard Revel Graduate School. She and her family recently made aliya from Cleveland, where she taught view complete profile
Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir is the research director of the Business Ethics Center of Jerusalem. He is the author, since 2001, of the weekly syndicated Jewish Ethicist column, and since 2003 of the weekly Jerusalem Post column Ethics at Work. view complete profile
Rabbi Ron-Ami Meyers had his first taste of Torah learning under Rabbi Brovender at Yeshivat Hamivtar in 1983. His Torah study continued at Yeshiva University and at Kollelim in Eretz Yisrael. His most recent position in Israel was view complete profile
Rabbi Gavriel Pransky is originally from Philadelphia PA and now resides in Jerusalem. He spent many years learning Torah at Yeshivat Hamivtar with Rabbi Brovender as his Rosh Yeshiva. He has been the OU’s JLIC Torah Educator at the University view complete profile
Rabbi Yedidya Rausman is the founding director of WebYeshiva. Hailing from New York, he received his bachelor's degree at CUNY Queens College and his rabbinical ordination from Yeshivat Hamivtar and Rav Zalman Nechamia Goldberg. Former Director of Yeshivat Hamivtar, Rabbi view complete profile
After receiving an advanced double BA in History and Philosophy from Dalhousie University (Canada) Rabbi Joshua Ross spent eight years in Israel. Rabbi Ross learned at Yeshivat Hamivtar where he received smicha from Rabbi Brovender and Rabbi Zalman Nechemia Goldberg. view complete profile
Rabbi Dr. Gidon Rothstein has semicha from YU (RIETS) and a PhD from Harvard. He is the author of Murderer in the Mikdash and Cassandra Misreads the Book of Samuel, works of fiction with Jewish themes, and of Educating a view complete profile
Bracha Rutner is the Yoetzet Halacha at the Riverdale Jewish Center and the Young Israel of North Riverdale and a Talmud and Halakah teacher in Yeshiva of Flatbush. She has given numerous lectures on the interface of halachah and various view complete profile
Rabbi Jeffrey Saks is the founding Director of ATID―The Academy for Torah Initiatives and Directions in Jewish Education, in Jerusalem. An editorial board member of the journal Tradition, Rabbi Saks authored Spiritualizing Halakhic Education (Mandel Foundation) and edited Wisdom From view complete profile
Rabbi Michael Schudrich, Chief Rabbi of Poland, graduated from Stony Brook University in 1977 with a Religious Studies major and received an MA in History from Columbia University in 1982. He received smicha through Yeshiva University from Rabbi Moshe Tendler. view complete profile
Born in Manchester, England, Natan Slifkin spent many years of study at yeshivot in Israel. He then taught Talmud and Jewish philosophy at Ohr Somayach Institutions, where he received rabbinic ordination. Rabbi Slifkin also has an MA in Jewish Studies view complete profile
Rabbi Yitzchak Twersky was a senior Rebbi and Chairman of the Tanach department at Frisch before making Aliyah. He gave shiurim at YU, Princeton, Columbia, Moshava and in many communities and universities for over two decades to thousands of students, view complete profile
Rabbi Avi Weinstein taught at Yeshivat Hamivtar and Michlelet Bruria from 1979 until 1984. He also has been a talmid of Rabbi Brovender since 1975. He is currently the Head of Jewish Studies at The Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy in view complete profile
Yosefa Wruble is currently on the staff of Matan's celebrated Tanach learning program-Al Haperek. She is a graduate of the sixth Cohort of Matan's Tanach scholars program. She is currently writing her master's thesis in parshanut for Bar Ilan view complete profile
Rabbi Yitzhak Zuriel was a teacher and educational director at Michlelet Bruria for about 10 years during the 1980s. More recently, he has been working as a software quality engineer at the company NDS in Jerusalem. He is one of view complete profile
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