Rabbi Chaim Barry
Rabbi Dov Katz
Rabbi Moshe Kibel
Rabbi Pinchas Landis
Naomi Landis
Rabbi Yirmi Lederer
Rabbi Meir Minster
Rabbi Yitzchok Preis
Alter Raubvogel
Rabbi Cobi Robinson
Rabbi Dov Schwartzbaum
Rabbi David Spetner
Elisa Travis
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
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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
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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 Chaim Barry
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POSITION: Staff Scholar
TEACHES: Yesodei Hatorah
Shabbat morning Ramban (Nachmanides) (Knesseth Israel Cong.)
"Discovering Judaism" (Miami University Hillel)
BORN IN: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
HAS ALSO LIVED IN: Baltimore, Maryland; Talpiot (Jerusalem)
HIGHER EDUCATION: Mercaz Hatorah (Jerusalem)
Ner Israel Rabbinical College (Baltimore)
Machon Teachers' Program (at Ner Israel)
HOBBIES/INTERESTS: Skiing, chess, high-HP power tools
PET PEEVES: Bad drivers
ASPIRATIONS: To teach and be an example to my fellow Jews
FAVORITE QUOTE: We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing.
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Rabbi Dov Katz
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POSITION: Staff Scholar
TEACHES: "A Minute of Jewish Law" (nightly at the Kollel)
"Practical Jewish Living" (Golf Manor Synagogue)
BORN IN: Memphis, Tennessee
HAS ALSO LIVED IN: Far Rockaway (NY), Jerusalem, Baltimore
HIGHER EDUCATION: B.A. in computer science, Queens College
Sh'or Yoshuv Institute (Lawrence, New York)
Mirrer Yeshiva (Jerusalem)
Ner Israel Rabbinical College (Baltimore)
HOBBIES/INTERESTS: Learning Torah, playing guitar, skateboarding,
shopping at Wal-Mart
ASPIRATIONS: To get in touch with my inner child.
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Rabbi Moshe Kibel
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POSITION: Staff Scholar
TEACHES: Thursday night Navi (Prophets) class
Women's Chumash class (Mondays, at Cincinnati Hebrew Day School)
Sunday morning Talmud class (for sixth- and seventh-grade boys)
BORN IN: Memphis, Tennessee
HIGHER EDUCATION: Mirrer Yeshiva (Jerusalem)
Yeshiva of South Bend (Indiana)
HOBBIES/INTERESTS: Caffeine, coffee
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Naomi Landis
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POSITION: Associate Coordinator, Women's Learning Initiative
TEACHES: Hebrew courses
Jewish Women and Jewish Life
BORN IN: Seattle, Washington
HAS ALSO LIVED IN: Richmond, Virginia; Miami Beach;
Jerusalem; Baltimore
HIGHER EDUCATION: Ateres B'nos Yerushalayim
Neve Yerushalayim (Jerusalem)
FAVORITE QUOTE: "I'm not a rebbitzen! I'm a cook/nanny/maid!"
(A mother, that is.)
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Rabbi Pinchas Landis
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POSITION: Project Director, Kollel Retreat Center
TEACHES: Hebrew courses
Breakneck Through the Bible
Blue Ash Lunch-and-Learn (Communicare)
BORN IN: Suburban Atlanta
HAS ALSO LIVED IN: Jerusalem, New York, Baltimore
HIGHER EDUCATION: Yeshiva University - 1 year
Ohr Somayach - 2 years
Ner Israel Rabbinical College (Baltimore)
HOBBIES/INTERESTS: Rock Climbing, history, Georgia Tech athletics
ASPIRATIONS: To save the world!
TRIVIA: Former International President, BBYO
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Rabbi Yirmi (Jeremie) Lederer
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POSITION: Staff Scholar
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BORN IN: Paris, France
HAS ALSO LIVED IN: Miami, Florida
HIGHER EDUCATION: MBA from Florida International University
Talmudic University (Miami Beach ) - 9 years
HOBBIES/INTERESTS: Skiing, playing guitar
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Rabbi Yitzchok Preis
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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."
ASPIRATIONS:
To help as many members of the Jewish community learn as much about their Judaism as possible.
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Alter Raubvogel
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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
ASPIRATIONS:
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
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Rabbi Dov Schwartzbaum
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POSITION: Staff Scholar
TEACHES: Women's Laws of Shabbos class (Sundays)
Hebrew Reading (Golf Manor Synagogue)
Yesodei Hatorah
Learner's Minyan (Sundays, at Cincinnati Hebrew Day School)
BORN IN: richmond, Virginia (raised in Israel)
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HOBBIES: Basketball, hiking
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Elisa Travis
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POSITION: Coordinator of Women's Programming
TEACHES: Woman-to-Woman Partners in Torah
BORN IN: Akron, Ohio
HAS ALSO LIVED IN:
Silver Spring and Baltimore, Maryland; Jerusalem
HIGHER EDUCATION:
B.S. in physical therapy from U. of Maryland
Seminar Yerushalayim (Jerusalem)
HOBBIES/INTERESTS:
Physical therapy - specifically, involving osteoporosis, pediatrics, and massage.
Also enjoy dance, aerobics, music, singing, baking/cooking
PET PEEVES:
Unreliability - I have no tolerance for it!
I am a bit fanatical about organization and consolidating stuff.
ASPIRATIONS:
To have a positive Jewish influence on as many and as varied women as possible in Cincinnati.
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Rabbi Raphael Weinschneider
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