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Rabbi Yaakov Moskowitz

Saturday, March 30, 2024
9:00AM EST -Guest Scholar-in-Residence Rabbi Yaakov Moskowitz Talk: My Judaism, My Legacy, My Greatest Pride
6:15PM EST -Guest Scholar-in-Residence Rabbi Yaakov Moskowitz Talk: Haman, Hamas, and the Antisemitism of Today

Friday, March 29, 2024
7:00PM EST -Guest Scholar-in-Residence Rabbi Yaakov Moskowitz Talk: An Attitude Filled With Gratitude

Rabbi Yaakov Moskowitz serves as the Director of Community Learning in Yeshiva Toras Chaim Toras Emes in Miami. His dynamic and inspiring lectures as well as creative Torah learning programs uplift the Toras Chaim Toras Emes parent body as well as the broader South Florida Jewish community. His motivational talks, videos, and articles cover a wide range of topics and have become popular worldwide. Additionally, he is the founder of the Growth Through Our Gedolim Project that produces powerful and uplifting videos about Jewish leaders that are shared in schools and outreach programs around the globe. Previously, Rabbi Moskowitz served as Director of Campus Outreach for AISH HaTorah at Stony Brook University, Long Island, where he touched the lives and inspired hundreds of secular Jewish college students.

Rabbi Kalman Baumann

Saturday, March 02, 2024
9:00AM EST -Guest Scholar-in-Residence: Rabbi Kalman Baumann
5:45PM EST -Guest Scholar-in-Residence: Rabbi Kalman Baumann
5:00PM EST -Special Class with Guest Scholar-in-Residence Rabbi Baumann

Friday, March 01, 2024
6:00PM EST -Guest Scholar-in-Residence: Rabbi Kalman Baumann

Rabbi Kalman Baumann is the principal of the Klurman Elementary School and Esformes Early Childhood Center. He is responsible for overseeing the largest divisions in Yeshiva Toras Chaim Toras Emes (YTCTE). As an educator with decades of experience, Rabbi Baumann mentors principals across the country and has enabled the Yeshiva to grow into a world-class educational institution. Rabbi Baumann received his semicha from Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim and is on the Rabbinic Board of Miami Hatzalah. He is the Rabbinic Director of the Chevra Kadisha of South Florida. Educating over 1,300 students (JPK through three years post High School), Rabbi Niman is a truly experienced scholar and founding leader and Rosh HaYeshiva (Dean) of one of Florida’s most prominent and largest Jewish educational institutions.

Rabbi Yisroel Y. Niman

Saturday, January 27, 2024
9:00AM EST -Guest Scholar-in-Residence: Rabbi Yisroel Y. Niman
5:30PM EST -Guest Scholar-in-Residence: Rabbi Yisroel Y. Niman

Friday, January 26, 2024
5:35PM EST -Guest Scholar-in-Residence: Rabbi Yisroel Y. Niman

Rabbi Yisroel Y. Niman was born and raised in Queens, New York. He has taught in Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim in Queens as well as in Jerusalem. After receiving Rabbinic Ordination from Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim in 1986, Rabbi Niman moved to Miami Beach where he started and headed Yeshiva Toras Chaim Toras Emes’ Community Kollel and eventually the YTCTE school. Educating over 1,300 students (JPK through three years post High School), Rabbi Niman is a truly experienced scholar and founding leader and Rosh HaYeshiva (Dean) of one of Florida’s most prominent and largest Jewish educational institutions.

Baruch-Lev Kelman

Sunday, June 04, 2023
6:00PM EST -Virtual Roundtable: “Kedusha on Wheels – Is a Synagogue Inherently Sacred?”

Sunday, April 02, 2023
6:00PM EST -The Virtual Roundtable Seminar – “I Saw Jewish Kings Beyond the Sambatyon! – Preserving Majesty in the Diaspora”

Sunday, February 05, 2023
6:00PM EST -The Virtual Roundtable Seminar – “Separation of Synagogue & State in Jewish Law”

Baruch-Lev Kelman is the Yeshiva University Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought programming officer. He is a graduate student at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies at Yeshiva University. He served on the Premio Sarano Commitee of the San Paolo Vatican Press and as the Glatt Research Associate at the Center for Israel Studies, contributing to the exhibit Samaritans: A Biblical People (Museum of the Bible, 2022).

Yehuda Goldberg

Sunday, May 07, 2023
6:00PM EST -The Virtual Roundtable – “The Melech and Montesquieu”

Sunday, March 05, 2023
6:00PM EST -The Virtual Roundtable Seminar – “Jewish Laws for the Jewish State?”

Sunday, January 15, 2023
6:00PM EST -The Virtual Roundtable Seminar – “The Rights Way”

Yehuda Goldberg is the Yeshiva University Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought rabbinic intern. He is a rabbinical student at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) and a graduate student at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies at Yeshiva University. In his research, Yehuda looks at Jewish thought and the intersection of theology and political philosophy.

Edward Douglas

Tuesday, August 16, 2022
7:00PM EST -Student Film Screening

Edward Douglas is an award-winning filmmaker and video game storyteller. His credits range from major gaming franchises such as Mass Effect and Need for Speed, to the classic animated Edd, Edd’n Eddy cartoon, to throwbacks like straight-to-video Steven Segal movies. His most recent short films Swiped and Dearly Beloved have premiered in Florida at the Miami International Science Fiction Film Festival and been nominated for Best Science Fiction at the Sunscreen Film Festival in Saint Petersburg, FL. He’s taught and spoken at schools in Vancouver and internationally, including the Vancouver Institute of Media Arts, Vancouver Film School, and the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema in Brooklyn, NY. Edward comes from a German Jewish family that fled the Holocaust, and through teaching film at New Synagogue has reconnected with his Jewish heritage.