The Yeshiva faculty and administration are available not only as teachers but also as mentors and friends. They strive to convey their personal passion for Torah study and Jewish living, also opening their homes to students for Shabbat and holiday meals.

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Rabbi Shmuel (Richie) Lewis, Rosh Yeshiva, received his doctorate in Rabbinic Thought, summa cum laude, from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He was a Senior Lecturer in Talmud at the Schechter Institute for Jewish Studies, where he received his rabbinic ordination. He has been a research fellow, a lecturer in Talmud and director of the Beit Midrash program at the Shalom Hartman Institute. Reb Shmuel, as he is called in the Yeshiva, teaches Talmud, Advanced Midrash and Poskim, as well as several classes on a variety of topics and a weekly sicha to the entire Yeshiva.

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Rabbi Joel Roth, Rosh HaYeshiva, is Louis Finkelstein Professor of Talmud and Jewish Law at the Jewish Theological Seminary. He formerly served as Dean of the Rabbinical School at JTS and Chair of the Rabbinical Assembly’s Committee on Jewish Law and Standards. He gives shiurim during his frequent visits to Israel.

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Rabbi Dr. Pesach Schindler, Rosh HaYeshiva, received rabbinic ordination from Rav Elimelech Bar-Shaul, Chief Rabbi of Rechovot, and a Ph.D. in Jewish History and Philosophy from New York University. He is Assistant Professor of Talmud and Rabbinic Studies in the Rothberg International School at Hebrew University and a Senior Faculty member of the International School of Yad Vashem (Theology and Rabbinic Studies). He served as the director of the United Synagogue’s Fuchsberg Center for twenty-five years and has been teaching his “A Page of Talmud” at the Fuchsberg Center’s Oded Program since 1973. He teaches Hasidut in the Fall semester at the Yeshiva.

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Rabbi Jerome M. Epstein serves as Chief Israel Affairs Officer of the United Synagogue and in that role directs the Fuchsberg Center with ultimate responsibility for the Conservative Yeshiva. Ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary and the recipient of an Ed.D from Temple University, Rabbi Epstein served as CEO and Executive Vice President of the United Synagogue for 23 years.

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Rabbi Daniel C. Goldfarb, Yeshiva Director, is a graduate of Harvard College and Columbia Law School and received his M.H.L. and Rabbinic Ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary. He worked for 25 years as an attorney for Israel’s Ministries of Justice and Finance and in private practice in Jerusalem before joining the Yeshiva in 2000. He teaches Liturgy and Pirkei Avot.

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Rabbi Gail Diamond, Associate Director, received her M.H.L. and Rabbinic Ordination from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and served for seven years as a congregational rabbi before making aliyah in 2001. She teaches Psalms.

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Shoshana Cohen is a fellow at the Hartman Institute’s Seder Nashim Beit Midrash for Gender and Judaism where she also completed the Melamdim Educator’s program. Shoshana is a graduate student at Hebrew University in Ancient Jewish History, with a BA from Brandeis University in Judaic Studies. She has also studied Talmud at Midreshet Lindenbaum and Matan’s Advanced Talmud Institute and was one of the founding faculty members of Yeshivat Hadar in New York, where she taught for two summers. She teaches Tanach and Women and Halacha at the Conservative Yeshiva. Midrash, Chumash with Rashi and Gender and Judaism.

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Vered Hollander-Goldfarb received her M.A. in Judaic Studies and Tanach from the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University and studied at Bar-Ilan University and the Jewish Theological Seminary. Before making aliyah, she taught at Ramaz School and Stern College in New York. She teaches Tanach and Medieval Commentators.

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Esther Israel-Vleeschouwer studied in Women’s Yeshivot in Jerusalem and at the Hebrew University and has a B.Ed and a teaching Degree in Open/Democratic Education, a degree in Bible and Torah She-B’al Peh from Michlelet Bruria, and a Master’s in Bible from the Hebrew University. She teaches Talmud.

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Dr. Joshua Kulp was one of the founders of the Yeshiva. He studied at the University of Judaism and received his doctorate in Talmud from Bar Ilan University. In addition, he teaches Talmud and Halacha at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies and coordinates the Mishnah Yomit program for the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism. He teaches Talmud, Mishnah and Poskim. Dr. Kulp is the author of The Schechter Haggadah: Art, History and Commentary.

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Rabbi Joel Levy, studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge University, was chair of the Program at Limmud conference and is an ex-director of NOAM. He received rabbinical ordination from Rabbi David Hartman in 2000. Joel also teaches in the Jewish Studies Faculty of the Machon L’Madrichei Chul and for Ta Shma. He has been the part-time rabbi of Kol Nefesh Masorti Synagogue, Britain’s only fully egalitarian traditional shul, since 2001. He teaches Talmud and Practical Halacha.

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Rabbi Edward Romm, Yeshiva Registrar, received his M.A. and Rabbinic Ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary. He is Director of Education and the Center on Campus program of the Fuchsberg Center for Conservative Judaism. He coordinates the Parshat Hashavua series.

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Dr. Shaiya Rothberg received his doctorate in Jewish Thought from the Hebrew University and his B.A. in Jewish Philosophy and Talmud from Bar Ilan University. Shaiya has also learned in the Conservative Yeshiva Kollel since it began, and earlier on at Machon Meir, Machon Pardes, Hamachon Hagavoah Letorah (Bar-Ilan’s yeshiva) and Machon Hartman. He teaches Theology, Kabbalah and Written and Oral Torah from Midrash to the Middle Ages. You can find some of Shaiya’s theology and interpretation at bitterchocolate.faithweb.com.

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Rabbi Mordechai Silverstein received Rabbinic Ordination from both the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and Yeshiva University. He is a Ph.D. candidate in Talmud at Hebrew University. He teaches Talmud, Midrash and Advanced Midrash.

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Nitza Shalitin, the Yeshiva’s Ulpan director, has taught Hebrew to overseas students at the Hebrew University One Year Program, the Melton Educators Program and Mechina program, and at Hebrew Union College. She teaches Hebrew and coordinates the Yeshiva’s Ulpan programs.

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Meira Stern-Glick has many years of experience in teaching Hebrew as a second language in Ulpanim and Hebrew classes at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and in online teaching. Meira received her bachelor’s degree summa cum laude from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in Arabic language and literature, and pursued her MA in Hebrew Language at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She teaches Ulpan.

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Rabbi Shlomo Zacharow received his MA and Rabbinic ordination from the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem. Before joining the Conservative Yeshiva, he served as the Rabbi of Congregation Shevet Achim in Gilo. Rabbi Zacharow is certified as a mesadder gittin (specialist in Jewish Family Law). In addition, he runs the Shabbat afternoon Mincha/Seudah Shlishit/Shiur and the daily minyan at Congregation Moreshet Israel. He teaches Topics in Halacha, Contemporary Issues in Halacha,Biblical Hebrew and Poskim.