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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. The intensive 3-year program covers the laws of Shabbat , Nidah , and Issur v'Heter as 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. As of 2022 , 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.
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The opening as it stood in 2010
The Jerusalem Kollel is a rabbinic education program with the intent of training kollel students to assume positions of leadership in waning Jewish communities worldwide. Established in the autumn of the Jewish calendar year 5762 (2002), the kollel opened with twenty young men. As of 2009, the Kollel had over 70 students. The Dean of the Kollel is Rabbi Yitzchak Berkovits , who has years of experience in Jewish education and preparing students from different backgrounds for rabbinical and outreach positions. Rav Berkovitz was a student of the Mir yeshiva (Jerusalem) and was a close disciple of the late Rabbi Chaim Leib Shmuelevitz .
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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. 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.The Dean of the Kollel is Rabbi Yitzchak Berkovits , a respected advisor on contemporary halachic issues, especially for Jerusalem’s English-speaking haredi community.Berkovits was a student of the Mir yeshiva (Jerusalem) and served as Menahel Ruchani of Yeshivas Aish HaTorah in Jerusalem for 16 years.
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The opening as it stood in 2020
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. The intensive 3-year program covers the laws of Shabbat , Nidah , and Issur v'Heter . 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 200 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. Berkovits was a student of the Mir yeshiva (Jerusalem) and served as Menahel Ruchani of Yeshivas Aish HaTorah in Jerusalem for 16 years.
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rabbinic education program with the intent of training kollel students to assume positions of leadership in wan
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rabbinic education program with the stated goal of training kollel couples to assume positions of leadership in
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