HIGHLIGHTS
Yeshiva Welcomes
New Rabbeim,
Including Alumni
RAV CHAIM OZER BENDER is our newest
second grade rebbi. A graduate of both
the Aish Dos and Merkaz teacher training
institutes, Rav Bender succeeds Rav
Avrohom Bender, who is now focused
full-time on his duties as a menahel in
the Yeshiva’s elementary school. He is an
alumnus of Yeshiva Darchei Torah, Mesivta
Chaim Shlomo, Beis Medrash Heichal
Dovid, Yeshivas Mir Yerushlayim, and Beth
Medrash Govoha, where he learned for nine
years in the yeshiva and kollel.
RAV DOV KENIG is an assistant
tenth grade rebbe and serves as rosh
chaburah during second seder at Kollel
Tirtza Devorah. In the latter position he
has succeeded Rav Chaim Altusky. An
alumnus of Mesivta Chaim Shlomo and
Beis Medrash Heichal Dovid, Rav Kenig
continued learning at Yeshivas Brisk in
Yerushalayim, at Beth Medrash Govoha
in Lakewood, and at Kollel Netzach
Yisroel in Los Angeles.
In the Yeshiva’s effort to ensure that every child gets the individual attention he
requires, a new member was recently welcomed to its educational leadership team, with
the appointment of RABBI AVI TAUB as general studies principal of the Fifth Grade. A
beloved and successful rebbi in the Yeshiva’s elementary school since 2008, Rav Taub
is a graduate of the Mercaz Center for Teacher Training as well as the Board of Jewish
Education’s Research for
Better Teaching program.
He is an alumnus of
RAV MATISYAHU COHEN is a new
the Yeshiva Gedolah of
seventh grade rebbi. Rav Cohen was
Montreal, our own Beis
previously a rebbi at the Torah Day
Medrash Heichal Dovid,
School of Dallas, Texas. He is an alumnus
Yeshivas Mir Yerushalayim,
of Yeshiva Shaar HaTorah-Grodno in
and Yeshiva Torah
Queens, Yeshivas Mir Yerushalayim, and
Vodaath.
the Jerusalem Kollel, where he received
semicha from Rav Yitzchok Berkovits
shlita. He was also a member of Dallas’s
DATA Kollel.
RAV YOSSI SAUBER is our new third
grade rebbi. Rabbi Sauber served as an
assistant rebbi in the Yeshiva Darchei
Torah elementary school for three
years. An alumnus of Mesivta Chaim
Shlomo, Beis Medrash Heichal Dovid,
Rav Nechemia Kaplan’s yeshiva in
Yerushalayim, and Kollel Tirtza Devorah,
he is a graduate of Rabbi Yoel Kramer’s
Merkaz for Teacher Training.
RAV YAKOV SKOLNICK is a new
seventh grade rebbi. A native of
Brooklyn, he spent nearly five years
in Minneapolis as an active member
of its Community Kollel, learning,
teaching adults and engaging in
outreach. He also taught at the Yeshiva
of Minneapolis and at the local Bais
Yaakov. Rav Skolnick is an alumnus of
Yeshiva Tiferes Yisroel of Brooklyn, Rav
Tzvi Kaplan’s yeshiva in Yerushalayim,
and Beth Medrash Govoha of Lakewood.
BEDARCHEI HATORAH
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