DR. MICHELLE FRIEDMAN
Dr. Michelle Friedman is the Founder and Chair of the Department of Pastoral Counseling at YCT.  She received an MD from the NYU School of Medicine and has completed advanced training at the Columbia University Psychoanalytic Center for Training and Research. Dr. Friedman is a highly respected psychiatrist who focuses on the Jewish community and has a special interest in the rabbinate and pastoral counseling. In addition to her private practice and her role at YCT, Dr. Friedman is an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York.

RABBI NATHANIEL HELFGOT
Rabbi Nathaniel Helfgot is Chair of Departments of Bible and Jewish Thought and Director of Continuing Rabbinic Education at YCT.  He was previously Director of the Judaic Studies Curriculum at Ma'ayanot Yeshiva High School for Girls. Ordained by RIETS and a recipient of the Jerusalem Fellowship, Rabbi Helfgot holds an MA in Education from the Azrieli Graduate School of Yeshiva University.  He has authored dozens of essays in Hebrew and English, serves as co-editor of the Hebrew journal Or HaMizrach and most recently served as editor of the volume "Community, Covenant and Commitment: Selected Letters and Communications of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik." He is also a faculty member of the Wexner Foundation Heritage program.

RABBI YSOSCHER KATZ
Rabbi Ysoscher Katz is the Director of the Beit Midrash Program (preparatory year) at YCT.  He received ordination in 1986 from Rabbi Roth, dayan of UTA Satmer. Rabbi Katz studied in Brisk and in Yeshivat Beis Yosef, Navaradok for over ten years. A graduate of the HaSha'ar Program for Jewish Educators, Rabbi Katz has taught at the Ma'ayanot High School for Girls and SAR High School.  He was a leading teacher of a daf yomi class in Boro Park for over eight years.

RABBI JONATHAN KELSEN
Rabbi Jonathan Kelsen is a faculty member at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah and The Drisha Institute for Jewish Education, and a former faculty member of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem. A graduate of the Pardes Kollel and a fellow in the Shalom Hartman Institute's Hadarim Program, Rabbi Kelsen received rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Daniel Landes and holds an MA in Jewish Civilization from the International School of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.  Rabbi Kelsen has taught rabbinics in a variety of formal and informal contexts.

RABBI YAMIN LEVY
Rabbi Yamin Levy was ordained by Yeshiva University.  Formerly the Academic Director of Sephardic Studies at Yeshiva University (2001-2006), he spent 18 years in the rabbinate in New Jersey, Seattle, WA. and Long Island, NY. Rabbi Levy is the author of the internationally acclaimed "Confronting the Loss of a Baby: A Personal and Jewish Perspective," which was translated in Hebrew by Ruben Mass Publishers. He also wrote "Journey Through Grief: A Sephardic Manual for the Bereaved and Their Community" and authored numerous scholarly articles published in English and Hebrew on a range of topics including Jewish Law, Biblical Studies, and Maimonidean Studies.  Most recently, Rabbi Levy co-edited a book entitled "The Legacy of Maimonides: Religion, Reason, and Community." In addition to his work at YCT, Rabbi Levy is the Founder and Dean of the Maimonides Heritage Center. 

RABBI DOV LINZER
Rabbi Dov Linzer is the Rosh HaYeshiva and Dean of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School. He studied for many years at Yeshivat Har Etzion, was a member of Yeshiva University’s Gruss Kollel Elyon, and received his ordination from the Israeli Rabbinate. He is a recipient of the Javits Graduate fellowship, and a doctoral candidate in Religion at Columbia University. Rabbi Linzer headed the Boca Raton Kollel for the first two-and-a-half years of its existence, giving classes to the rabbis of the Kollel, and lecturing throughout the South Florida communities.  He has published halakha and machshava articles in Torah journals and lectures widely at synagogues and conferences on topics relating to halakha, Orthodoxy, and modernity.  Rabbi Linzer spearheaded the development of the YCT Rabbinical School curriculum into an innovative four year semikha program which provides its students with rigorous halakhic study and sophisticated professional training in the context of a religious atmosphere which cultivates openness and inclusiveness. In addition to overseeing the Yeshiva's Torah curriculum, he teaches advanced halakha in a broad range of areas across all four sections of the Shulchan Aruch – including Kashrut, Ishut and Niddah, and Shabbat and Eruvin. Rabbi Linzer teaches advanced classes in Talmud and a year-long class in Contemporary Challenges of Modern Orthodoxy. 

RABBI YAACOV LOVE
Rabbi Yaacov Love is the Chair of the Department of Halakha at YCT.  He has studied at Yeshiva Netzach Yisrael under Harav Yisrael Gustman, z"l. He received Yoreh Yoreh and Yadin Yadin ordinations from noted rabbis and dayanim in Israel. Rabbi Love taught at Shappel Institute and Machon Pardes and at Bruriah High School in New Jersey. He also completed course work for the MA/PhD program in Talmud at Hebrew University, Jerusalem. 

RABBI CHAIM MARDER
Rabbi Chaim Marder is Chair of YCT's Department of Professional Rabbinics.  He has served as Rabbi of the Hebrew Institute of White Plains since 1995. He is a graduate of Yeshiva University, holds an MA in Jewish History and received rabbinical ordination from RIETS. He is a former office and a member of the executive board of the Rabbinical Council of America and other rabbinic and communal organizations.

RABBI AVI WEISS
Rabbi Avi Weiss is the Founder and President of YCT Rabbinical School.  He is Senior Rabbi of the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, a modern and Open Orthodox congregation of 850 families in Riverdale, NY. Rabbi Weiss is the National President of AMCHA – the Coalition for Jewish Concerns, a grassroots organization that speaks out for Jewish causes throughout the world.  He has authored two books: "Women at Prayer: A Halakhic Analysis of Women’s Prayer Groups" and "Principles of Spiritual Activism."

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