AFYBA is pleased to announce the initiation of the AFYBA Scholar-in-Residence
Program
For the first time, AFYBA is offering congregations in the U.S. and Canada the
opportunity to meet and learn with leading Torah scholars and educators in the
Yeshivot Bnei Akiva educational network, who head some of Israel’s finest religious
Zionist high schools.
Congregations may choose one of five distinguished Roshei
Yeshivot and Ulpanot (see roster below) to invite to as a
guest lecturer for a weekend during the coming year (5775).
All of the rabbis are
fluent in English, and each brings a unique perspective on the Jewish
experience in both the Diaspora and Israel. They are all accomplished
speakers who will certainly provide fresh insights into Torah, Halacha, Hashkafa
and other topics of interest to modern Orthodox congregants.
Congregations can preview 3-5 minute sermons on the weekly Torah portion by the participating rabbis in English by visiting the Parshat Shavua section on the AFYBA website, www.afyba.org.
Congregations wishing to
invite one of the distinguished rabbis to be a guest lecturer for a weekend should contact Menachem Bar-Shalom (mbarshalom@gmail.com). AFYBA will make every effort to accommodate the date and lecturer chosen.
Sponsorship of the hosting expenses will be worked out on a
case by case basis, according to the resources and policies of each
congregation.
AFYBA
Scholar-in-Residence Roster, 5775 (2014-5)
Rabbi Asher Corsia
Rabbi Asher Corsia was born in Spain and grew up in Israel. He graduated from Himmelfarb
High School in Jerusalem and served in the IDF Chaplaincy as a religious
officer. He holds a B.A. in Jewish Studies and Social Work from Bar Ilan
University and an M.A. in Education from Hebrew University. He is also a
graduate of the Mandel Leadership Institute in Jerusalem.
Rabbi
Corsia studied for rabbinical ordination at the Yeshivat Sha’alvim Kollel, and has
served as a shaliach for World Bnei Akiva in Panama. He was the founding Rosh
Yeshiva of YBA Torat Lapid Nachum in Modiin, and later founded Ulpanat Bnei
Akiva Orot Modiin, where he continues to serve as Rosh Ulpana. Rabbi Corsia is
also a visiting lecturer at a number of academic colleges in Israel.
Rabbi Yona
Goodman
Rabbi Yona Goodman was born in New
York and made Aliyah with his family as a teenager. He graduated high school
from YBA Yavneh in Haifa, did the Hesder program and studied for rabbinic
ordination at YBA Yeshivat Hesder Hagolan, and earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees
in Jewish Education at the Hebrew University, where he is presently completing
his doctorate.
Rabbi Goodman is a former secretary-general
of the national Bnei Akiva Youth Movement in Israel, and for the past 20 years
has taught Jewish Education and held various administrative positions at the YBA
affiliated Orot Israel College of Education in Elkana. He is an accomplished
lecturer and has spoken at communities and conferences in the United States,
Canada, South Africa, England, Russia, Sweden, Norway, Holland, Belgium and
Israel. For the last 15 years Rabbi Goodman has broadcast a five-minute weekly
spot on education on Israeli National Radio, and for the last three years he has
also broadcast a weekly Jewish parenting video on the Arutz Meir Internet TV
station. In September 2014 he begins serving as the Director of Education at
the YBA Educational Network in Israel. View videos...
Rabbi Yossi Kahana
Rabbi Yossi Kahana was born and raised in Jerusalem and attended high school at YBA Yad
Avraham in Netanya. After graduation he enrolled in the Yeshivat Kerem B’Yavne
Hesder program, and served as a tank commander in the IDF Armored Corps. He
studied for rabbinic ordination and earned B.A. and M.A. degrees in Talmud at
Bar Ilan University, where he is presently working on his doctorate.
From 1991
to 1994 Rabbi Kahana served as the World Bnei Akiva Youth Movement national
shaliach in South Africa. After returning to Israel he became the principal of
the Junior high school at Ulpanat Bnei Akiva Amana in Kfar Saba, and since 2006
he has served as the Rosh Ulpana at UBA Amana.
Rabbi
Shlomo Kimche
Rabbi
Shlomo Kimche was born in London, and made Aliyah with his family in 1969 to
Haifa at the age of eight. He graduated high school from Yeshivat Sha’alvim, attended
the Hesder program YBA Yeshivat Hakotel, and served during the first Lebanon
War in the IDF Armored Corps. He studied for rabbinic ordination at Yeshivat
Hesder Sha’alvim, where he ran the yeshiva’s program for overseas students, and
also earned B.A. and M.A. degrees in Education from the Hebrew University.
From
1990 to 1993, Rabbi Kimche served as College Rabbi in Mount Scopus College in
Melbourne, Australia – one of the largest Jewish Day Schools in the world, with
3,000 pupils. After returning to Israel he was appointed the Rabbi of the Orot
Etzion School in Efrat and also became a pulpit rabbi in a local synagogue. Rabbi
Kimche founded YBA Orot Yehuda in Efrat in 1997, where he has served as Rosh
Yeshiva and Talmud teacher until today.
Rabbi Yehoshua Magnes
Rabbi Yehoshua
Magnes was born in New York and made Aliyah with his family in the 1960s. He
graduated high school from YBA Hadarom in Rehovot and studied for the rabbinate
at Yeshivat Merkaz Harav, where he became a close disciple of the former Rosh
Yeshiva and Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Avraham Shapira. After ten years
serving as the rabbi of the Hapoel Hamizrahi community in Bnei Brak, he was called
back by Rabbi Shapira to Merkaz Harav, where he has taught ever since.
Rabbi
Magnes has authored four books of Torah commentary: Torat Haolah, Hama’araha
Hagedola, Torat Yishi, and the soon-to-be-published Torat Shabbat
Ha’aretz. He has also served as the Rabbi of Ulpanit Bnei Akiva Tel Aviv,
which his wife, Rabbanit Yaffa Magnes, heads as the Rosh Ulpanit, since the
school’s founding in 1978.
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