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Shana Ba'Aretz For Post High School Students
Meet our Faculty
Nishmat's faculty encourages students to question and to debate the issues important to them. Inspiring role models, Nishmat rabbis and teachers help you along the challenging path to authentic Torah-observance in the modern world.
Rabbanit Chana Henkin
Rabbanit Chana Henkin, Dean and Founder of Nishmat, is one of today's most acclaimed Jewish educators, known worldwide for opening the highest reaches of Torah learning to women. She teaches at all levels at Nishmat. Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm, Chancellor of Yeshiva University, when conferring an honorary doctorate upon her said, "You peered through the glass ceiling and observed the heavens smiling and beckoning above. So, without fanfare, confrontation or acrimony, you gently lifted open a window in the ceiling and taught the rest of us that the sky is the limit if your heart is with Heaven."
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Rabbi Mendel Blachman
Rabbi Mendel Blachman, a veteran Nishmat faculty member and Ram at Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh, studied at Yeshivat Chevron and in Kollel Pachad Yitzchak with Rav Hutner. His classes delve deeply into chassidic thought and contemporary issues in emunah. In addition to teaching, Rav Blachman devotes time every week to discussing religious questions with individual students.
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Simi Peters
Simi Peters, a scholar of Tanach and Midrash, has an M.A. in linguistics from the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York. A Jerusalem Fellow at the Mandel School for Jewish Education, Simi is the author of the critically-acclaimed and popular "Learning to Read Midrash". At Nishmat, Simi teaches midrash, navi and parshanut, always emphasizing the importance of approaching texts systematically and with rigor. She is proud to be raising a new generation of women scholars, and always finds time to work with students one-on-one on their individual projects. |
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Rabbi Moshe Ehrenreich
Rabbi Moshe Ehrenreich, Dean of Kollel Eretz Hemda, has taught the top Gemara shiur at Nishmat for a decade. He studied at Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh, where he served as a Rosh Metivta from 1967 to 1986. He has written extensively on topics in Choshen Mishpat and Even HaEzer, and oversees teams of rabbis responding to contemporary halachic questions received from around the world. He is a member of the Chief Rabbinate's Court for Conversions. Rav Ehrenreich works with each student individually to develop her analytic skills.
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Rabbi Joshua Weisberg
Rabbi Joshua Weisberg, director of Shana Ba'Aretz, moved to Israel in the late 80's after his studies at Wesleyan University. He spent the following ten years immersed in intensive Talmud study in Israeli yeshivot, Or Etzion, and Bet Morasha in Jerusalem. Rabbi Weisberg has a Masters degree in Jewish history, and wrote an award-winning thesis on the political thought of Rabbi Asher ben Yechiel. Rabbi Weisberg teaches his students to ask themselves foremost how what they are learning can change them, and how they are growing in their own spiritual and ethical lives as they learn. |
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