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Rav Moshe Ehrenreich

Rav Moshe Ehrenreich

Rosh Kollel

Rav Moshe Ehrenreich is the Rabbinical Dean of the Eretz Hemdah Institute for Advanced Jewish Studies in Jerusalem and the Av Beit Din of the “Eretz Hemdah – Gazit” network of Batei Din. He is a graduate of Yeshivat Kerem b’Yavneh, where he later served as a Rosh Metivta for over 20 years. Rav Ehrenreich fought as a combat soldier in the Yom Kippur War. Heserved as a dayan in the conversion court of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel and is a senior lecturer at Nishmat. Rav Ehrenreich has helped author nine volumes of Halachic Responsa B’Mareh Habazak.
Rav Yosef Carmel

Rav Yosef Carmel

Rosh Kollel

Rav Yosef Carmel is the Rabbinical Dean of the Eretz Hemdah Institute for Advanced Jewish Studies in Jerusalem and the Av Beit Din of the “Eretz Hemdah – Gazit” network of Batei Din. Rav Carmel is a graduate of the Nir Kiryat Arba Hesder Yeshiva and was Rosh Metivta there for more than ten years. He was a combat soldier in the IDF during the Yom Kippur war and the first Lebanon war. He is a senior lecturer in Tanach and has authored Tsofenat Eliyahu (an elucidation on the Vilna Gaon’s commentary on the laws of monetary damages), Tsofenat Yeshayahu: From Uziya to Ahaz (a commentary on the prophecies of Yeshayahu during one of the stormiest times in Jewish history) and nine volumes of Responsa B’Mareh HaBazak.
Rav Ofer Livnat

Rav Ofer Livnat

Maggid Shiur

Rav Ofer Livnat teaches at the Eretz Hemdah Institute for Advanced Jewish Studies in Jerusalem and serves as a Dayan on the Sephardi Beth Din of London. A graduate of Eretz Hemdah, Rav Livnat teaches in a number of prestigious programs for training rabbis and Dayanim worldwide, including the Manhigut Toranit Program and the Semicha and Dayanut Programs run jointly by the Montefiore Endowment of London and Eretz Hemdah. A lecturer on Tanach at the Jerusalem College, Rav Livnat has previously served in an artillery unit in the IDF, studied and taught at Yeshivat Hesder Ma’ale Adumim and is currently studying for a PhD in Jewish studies at University College London.

Rav Doron Podlashuk

Rav Doron Podlashuk

Director

Rav Doron Podlashuk made Aliyah from South Africa, studied at Yeshivat Har Etzion for close to a decade and served in the Golani Infantry Brigade of the IDF. He received his Smicha from the Chief Rabbinate of Israel and has a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Economics and Management from the University of South Africa. Whilst on shlichut in South Africa, Rav Podlashuk founded the Beit Mordechai Campus Kollel and he was a rabbi of the “Mizrachi” community in Johannesburg for over six years.

After returning to Israel, he founded the Manhigut Toranit Program, where he serves as its director. He is also responsible for spearheading the Tzurba m’Rabanan English series currently being learnt across the world. Rav Doron lives with his wife Keren and their five children in Yad Binyamin.

Rav Joel Kenigsberg

Rav Joel Kenigsberg

Assistant Director

Rav Joel Kenigsberg made aliyah from South Africa and studied in the Hesder program at Yeshivat HaKotel before joining the first cohort of Manhigut Toranit. He served as a shaliach of Mizrachi UK for four years, as Rav of Magen Avot Synagogue in Hendon and as Rav Shaliach of Bnei Akiva UK. Upon returning to Israel, he was appointed the Rav of Beit Knesset Hanassi in Rechavia, serving alongside Rabbi Berel Wein.

Rav Kenigsberg holds a Master’s degree in Science & Halacha from Bar-Ilan University and specializes in the interface between Halacha and the modern world. He has published articles and lectured internationally on this topic. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife, Sarah, and their three children, and serves as the assistant director of the Manhigut Toranit program.

Mrs. Tami Goldberg

Mrs. Tami Goldberg

Head of Women's Programming

Tami Goldberg brings extensive experience in Jewish education and community leadership to her role at Manhigut Toranit. After serving as a Lieutenant in the IDF’s HR Division, she earned her Bachelor’s in Education from Seminar Hakibutzim and Master’s in Bible Education from Siegal College. Following 25 years of educational leadership in Cleveland, Ohio, where she worked as both teacher and administrator at Fuchs Mizrachi School, Tami returned to Israel in 2014 and settled in Yad Binyamin.

A seasoned leader with Momentum (formerly JWRP) and Aish HaTorah’s ‘Mothers with Meaning,’ Tami has guided hundreds of women on their spiritual journeys. At Manhigut Toranit, she prepares the wives of avreichim for their future roles as rebbetzins, drawing on her wealth of experience in both Israel and the diaspora to ensure their success as Jewish communal leaders.

Praise for Manhigut Toranit

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This program is tzav hasha’ah.

- Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt”l

Thank you for all that you have invested in our community: the hundreds of shiurim you are responsible for and the thousands of hours of Torah learning. You’ve created a new culture here, a tremendous change that will last forever.

- Dr Ari Wiesen, Chairman, Cleveland Community Beit Midrash

Manhigut Toranit has started a revolution. The Torah knowledge, vision and leadership of the graduates is changing the face of our community.

- Rabbi Andrew Shaw, Chief Executive, Mizrachi UK

These graduates have had a monumental impact on our community. They are true Talmidei Chachamim – first-grade scholars – who are able to connect with our students and our families and serve as leaders throughout our community. We cannot thank you enough.

- Rabbi Seth Grauer, Rosh Yeshiva, Yeshivat Or Chaim, Toronto

It has been a privilege to study Tzurba M’Rabanan over the past three and a half years. The halachic sources are diverse, the topics are fascinating and the Rabbi was always open to deal with questions raised by those in attendance.

- Kenny Brand, Participant, Tzurba M’Rabanan shiur, London

We feel so blessed to have graduates of Manhigut Toranit as a truly incredible addition to our rabbinic team. Their contribution has been enormous in such a short space of time, and we can only imagine what the future holds for them and for us.

- Clive Spitz, Chariman, Yeshiva College Mizrachi Campus, Johannesburg

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