SPEAKERS
Our program will include numerous daily shiurim from world-renowned Rebbeim and educators in cluding Rabbi Moshe Benovitz, Rabbi Shalom Rosner, Rabbi Yakov and Lori Palatnik and inspirational speakers including Tamir Goodman.. Many others will be announced soon.
Meet Our Speakers
Rabbi Moshe Benovitz
Inspirational Speaker
Rabbi Moshe Benovitz is the Managing Director of International NCSY, the longtime Director of the NCSY Summer Kollel, and a Rebbe in Reishit Yerushalayim.
Rabbi Shalom Rosner
Inspirational Speaker
Rabbi Rosner is a very sought-after magid shiur who has thousandsn of students throughout the world. Until his Aliyah in August 2008, Rav Rosner was a popular Maggid Shiur at Yeshiva University's Stone Beis Medrash Program and the Rabbi of Congregation Bais Ephraim Yitzchok – the "Island Shul" – for six years.
Tamir Goodman
Inspirational Speaker and professional basketball player
Dubbed “The Jewish Jordan” by Sports Illustrated in 1999, Tamir Goodman is a former professional basketball player and current successful entrepreneur, coach, educator and motivational speaker.
Rabbi Yosef Zvi Rimon
Inspirational Speaker
Rav Yosef Zvi Rimon is Nasi of World Mizrachi and an internationally acclaimed “posek” of Halacha, author, educator, and lecturer.
Rabbanit Yemima Mizrahi
Inspirational Speaker
An attorney by training and a Rabbinical Court advocate, Rabbanit Yemima Mizrahi has not actually engaged directly in those fields for many years. Her two loves – learning and teaching Torah – she now merges together with her admiration for the Jewish woman, and gives Torah classes for women.
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Rav Aharon Pessin
Inspirational Speaker
Rav Aharon Pessin is a well-known Talmid Chacham (Torah scholar) and a dynamic and inspiring speaker who travels the world speaking on many topics in Jewish Law and Jewish Thought.
Rabbi Yakov and Lori Palatnik
Authors & Speakers
Rabbi Yakov and Lori Palatnik are authors and much sought-after international speakers, having been featured throughout North, Central and South America, Europe, CIS and Israel.
Rav Judah Mischel
Inspirational Speaker
Rav Judah Mischel is Executive Director of Camp HASC, the Hebrew Academy for Special Children. He is the Mashpiah of OU-NCSY, founder of Tzama Nafshi and the author of Baderech: Along the Path of Teshuva. Rav Judah lives in Ramat Beit Shemesh with his wife Ora and their family.
Prior to assuming a full time role at Camp HASC, Rav Judah was a Maggid Shiur & Director of Programing at Yeshivat Reishit in Beit Shemesh. A talmid of Yeshivat Shaalvim, he received Semicha from the Jerusalem Rabbinate, a BA in History from Yeshiva University, an MA in Education from YU’s Azrieli Graduate School, and was a Graduate Fellow at the CUNY Center for Coexistence at the School for Public Affairs. Rav Judah was Director of Student Activities and a member of the Judaic Studies faculty at the Frisch School, in Paramus, NJ, and led Aish HaTorah Jerusalem’s Return & Learn Program.
MK Ohad Tal
Inspirational Speaker
MK Ohad Tal is an Israeli politician serving as a member of the Knesset for the Religious Zionist Party. He holds a BA in Educational Management and Eretz Yisrael Studies from Bar-Ilan University and an Executive MBA in Public Policy and Administration from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. During his military service, Tal was a tank commander in the IDF’s Armored Corps and participated in Operation Defensive Shield.
Before entering politics, Tal dedicated two decades to Jewish education and diaspora relations. He served as an emissary for the Jewish Agency and World Bnei Akiva in the Netherlands and later founded the Religious Zionist Emissary Center. He also held the position of Deputy Director of the World Mizrachi Movement and, in 2021, was appointed Director of World Bnei Akiva, the largest Zionist youth movement globally.
Elected to the 25th Knesset in 2022, Tal chairs the Knesset Committee for Public Enterprises and is a member of the Foreign Affairs and Defense, Finance, and Immigration Absorption and Diaspora Affairs committees. He leads the Knesset Caucus for Israel-USA Jewry Relations and chairs parliamentary friendship groups with Australia, Guatemala, and Honduras.
In July 2024, Tal was appointed manager of the Religious Zionism party’s Knesset faction, succeeding Simcha Rothman.
Residing in Efrat, Tal is married to Tamar, the director of finance and human resources at the “Da’at” network of high schools and religious youth villages. The couple has four children.
Rabbi Jay Kelman
Inspirational Speaker
Rabbi Jay Kelman is founder and director of Torah in Motion. In addition to his leadership role at TiM, Rabbi Kelman teaches Halacha and Rabbinics at the Tanenbaum Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto. He received a BSc in accounting from Yeshiva University and Smicha from its affiliate, Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and served as a pulpit rabbi in Toronto for 15 years. Rabbi Kelman previously worked in the Tax Department of a large international accounting firm and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario. For 15 years running his monthly column Money Matters was published in the Canadian Jewish News.