Rabbi Aharon Daniel
Rabbi Dovid Heinemann
Rabbi Asher Mendelsberg
Rabbi Meir Minster
Rabbi Yitzchok Preis
Alter Raubvogel
Rabbi Cobi Robinson
Rabbi David Spetner
Rabbi Yitzie Stern
Rabbi Raphael
Weinschneider
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The Kollel Staff
Here are photos of and information about our staff.To check up on our "alumni" (former staff), please visit our Kollel Alumni page.
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Rabbi Meir Minster
POSITION: Director of Torah Studies
TEACHES: Daf Yomi
Women's Chumash Class (Golf Manor Synagogue)
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BORN IN: Baltimore, Maryland
HIGHER EDUCATION:
Ordination, Ner Israel Rabbinical College (Baltimore)
HOBBIES/INTERESTS: Gadgets
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Rabbi David Spetner
POSITION: Director of Operations
TEACHES: Friday Lunch-and-Learn at Avari Deli and Bistro
BORN IN: Saint Louis, Missouri
HAS ALSO LIVED IN: Baltimore, Maryland; Richmond, Virginia
HIGHER EDUCATION:
Ordination and Masters Degree, Ner Israel Rabbinical College (Baltimore)
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Rabbi Aharon Daniel
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Rabbi Dovid Heinemann
POSITION: Staff Scholar
TEACHES: Gemara (Talmud) skills to teens
BORN IN: Baltimore, Maryland
HAS ALSO LIVED IN: New Jersey and Jerusalem
HIGHER EDUCATION: Mesivta Keser Torah of Central New Jersey
Yeshivas Kodshim
HOBBIES/INTERESTS: raising a family; extreme sports
PET PEEVES: people who complain a lot
ASPIRATIONS: to do the will of Hashem (G-d)
TRIVIA: bungee-jumped off the then-highest commercial jump in the world, the Bloukrans Bridge in South Africa
FAVORITE QUOTE: "Yidden have been through worse!"
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Rabbi Asher Mendelsberg
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Rabbi Yitzchok Preis
POSITION: Director of Outreach
TEACHES: Seminars and seasonal lectures
Class for seniors (JCC)
Downtown Lunch-and-Learn
BORN IN: "Lebanon." (Lebanon Hospital, that is - Bronx, New York)
HAS ALSO LIVED IN:
New London, Connecticut; Baltimore, Maryland
HIGHER EDUCATION: M.S. from Johns Hopkins
Kerem B'Yavneh (Israel) - 2 years
Ner Israel Rabbinical College (Baltimore) - 9 years
HOBBIES/INTERESTS:
Parenting ("It absorbs all my down time - thank G-d!")
PET PEEVES:
"I don't have a pet."
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To help as many members of the Jewish community learn as much about their Judaism as possible.
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Alter Raubvogel
POSITION: Administrator
BORN IN: Cincinnati
HAS ALSO LIVED IN:
St. Louis, Missouri; Brooklyn, New York
HIGHER EDUCATION:
St. Louis Rabbinical College - 3 years
Yeshivat Mikdash Melech (Brooklyn) - 7 years
HOBBIES/INTERESTS:
Music, art/crafts, gardening, computers, Sephardic Pizmonim (religious songs). I'm a compulsive reader.
PET PEEVES: Telemarketers
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To learn (and teach) more Torah. To be a great husband and father.
TRIVIA:
Spent eleven summers doing woodwork and screen printing with boys in the Catskill Mountains (New York).
FAVORITE QUOTE:
"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by." (Douglas Adams)
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Rabbi Cobi Robinson
POSITION: Staff Scholar
TEACHES:"A Law and a Lesson," Weekly parasha series, weekly women's halacha class, monthly series on Jewish history
BORN IN: Chicago (in his house!)
HAS ALSO LIVED IN: Israel and Baltimore
HIGHER EDUCATION: Masters in School Administration (Loyola)
ASPIRATIONS:Synagogue rabbinate; to accelerate global warming so he doesn't have to shovel snow
TRIVIA: His eyes change color depending on his mood and energy level.
FAVORITE QUOTE:"Miracles are natural events that happen infrequently, and nature is miraculous events that happen frequently."
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Rabbi Yitzie Stern
POSITION: Staff Scholar
BORN IN: Chicago, Illinois
HAS ALSO LIVED IN: Baltimore; Jerusalem
HIGHER EDUCATION: Yeshivas Mercaz HaTorah (Jerusalem), Yeshivas Ner Yisroel (Baltimore), MS Computer Science Johns Hopkins University
HOBBIES/INTERESTS: all things technology; biking; chocolate chip cookies
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Rabbi Raphael "Rafi" Weinschneider
POSITION: Campus Outreach
BORN IN: Chicago, Illinois
HAS ALSO LIVED IN: Sheppard AFB (Wichita Falls, Texas); Jerusalem; Baltimore, Maryland
HIGHER EDUCATION: MBA, Johns Hopkins University; Ner Israel Rabbinical College
HOBBIES/INTERESTS: Lots
PET PEEVES: People who misrepresent others' opinions
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