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The Directors and Rabbonim of the Jewish Heritage Center, Rabbi Naftali Portnoy and Rabbi Moshe Turk, both popular speakers among secular and learned audiences throughout the United States, Canada and Eretz Yisrael spearhead a talented staff of Renowned Speakers and magedei shiurim presenting shiurim and inspiring talks. throughout Yom Tov.

 

 

 

JHC RABBONIM AND SPEAKERS

 

 

 

Rabbi Naftali Portnoy received his S’micha Yoreh Yoreh Yadin Yadin from Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim, the Rabbinical Seminary of America. Since 1988 he has served as  Co-Director and Senior Lecturer at the Jewish Heritage Center of Queens and Long Island. Together with Co-Director Rabbi Moshe Turk, Rabbi Portnoy has developed the "Center" into an internationally renowned Kiruv center which has reached out to more than 15,000 Jewish Adults throughout the Metropolitan New York area. More than 1,500 of their students have become fully Shomer Torah u’Mitzvos and over 8,000 have made significant strides towards deepening their commitment to Torah Judaism. Rabbi Portnoy has a profound grasp of psak halacha and confers extensively with g’dolei poskim both in America and Eretz Yisrael on varied and delicate matters of halacha, especially as they apply to baalei teshuva.

 

 

 

​Rabbi Moshe Turk received his S’micha Yoreh Yoreh Yadin Yadin from Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim, the Rabbinical Seminary of America. He is the founding Co-Director and Senior Lecturer at, the Jewish Heritage Center of Queens and Long Island. Together with Co-Director Rabbi Naftali Portnoy, Rabbi Turk  has developed the "Center" into an internationally renowned Kiruv center which has reached out to more than 15,000 Jewish Adults throughout the Metropolitan New York area. More than 1,500 of their students have become fully Shomer Torah u’Mitzvos and over 8,000 have made significant strides towards deepening their commitment to Torah Judaism , an internationally renowned Kiruv Center. Rabbi Turk is a warm and engaging speaker who captivates and inspires audiences throughout the United States, Canada and Eretz Yisrael.

 

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SPECIAL GUESTS

 

 

 

Rabbi Label Lam, co-founder of Foundations for Jewish Learning and a renowned orator, has been a popular Senior Lecturer at Jewish Heritage Center Retreats for many years. A former full-time lecturer for Arachim Seminars, Rabbi Lam has been inspiring businessmen and college students for Ohr Somayach International and Hamayan Institute for nearly two decades. He brings to his lectures his rich life experience, a profound wit and an infectious love for K’lal Yisrael. His insights on the weekly Parsha are received by more than 15,000 weekly subscribers and can be found at torah.org. Rabbi Lam is currently a practicing life coach specializing in clinical hypnosis.

 

 

 

 

Rabbi Shmuel Maybruch is a popular magid shiur in Yeshiva University and the Director of the YU Full Day Yeshiva Program. He was S’gan Mashgiach Ruchani of YU’s undergraduate division and of the RIETS Semicha program, as well as the founding Rabbi of the Shenk Shul of Washington Heights. He learned in Yeshiva Shaar Hatorah and then in Yeshiva University’s Katz Kollel and the Wexner Kollel Elyon. Rabbi Maybruch holds a B.A. in psychology from Yeshiva University and a Masters from the Wurzweiler School of Social Work. He has a private practice together with his wife, Dr. Chani Maybruch, specializing in relationship coaching, as well as anxiety, mood disorders, and youth at-risk. He is a warm, engaging and sought after lecturer in both halacha, mental health, and the nexus of the two.

 

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Dr. Chani Maybruch is a relationship educator and coach who has facilitated shidduchim for many years. For the last twelve years, she has been teaching and mentoring individuals, couples, and communities to enhance their relationships. Dr. Maybruch graduated from Stern College with a B.A. in Biology, holds a Masters in Bible from Yeshiva University, a Masters in Social-Organizational Psychology from Columbia University, and a Doctorate in Education from Yeshiva University. Her celebrated cognitive-behavioral approach is distinctive because it combines her unique training in education and social psychology, with the timeless insight of the Torah. Her warmth, charisma, scholarship and genuineness come through to her clients and to her audiences in all of her enlightening presentations. Dr. Maybruch will be enhancing our Rosh Hashana program as both a speaker and a shadchenes. For more information on Dr. Chani Maybruch and her husband, see www.TheRelationshipCouple.com .

 

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Rabbi Yosef Singer, Menahel of Mesivta Chofetz Chaim in Queens is a dynamic speaker, respected machanech and sought after shadchan. Additionally, he has endeared himself to thousands of Jewish Heritage Center hotel guests, having  been the uplifting Baal Musaf of our Yomim Noraim Hotel programs for nearly two decades. To all of his diverse roles he brings a wealth of Torah knowledge, an insightful grasp of people; particularly today's youth, and a warmth, humor and dynamism which empower his talks, discussions and interactions. Not limiting contact with his talmidim to their High School years alone, Rabbi Singer maintains a relationship and haspa'ah with many of his alumni for years after. As a result of this, he has branched out into the arena of shadchanus , becoming heavily involved in, and highly successful at, setting up and guiding young people into successful matches. Rabbi Singer joins us this Rosh Hashana with his combined roles of Baal Tefila, speaker and shadchan. 

 

 

 

 

Rabbi Ronnie Greenwald is an alumnus of the Telshe Yeshiva in Wickliffe, Ohio. He is the Director of Camp Sternberg, a Member of the Board of Governors of the OU,  Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Women’s League Community Residences and has founded a yeshiva for at-risk teens in Monsey, New York. Ronnie has been a Rabbi and friend to U.S. Presidents and has rubbed shoulders with a wide array of Prime Ministers, international political figures, and business leaders. He is an Orthodox Jewish activist who has been involved in an astonishing array of unorthodox and covert advocacy for Jewish causes and captive Jews, including obtaining exit visas for Russian Refuseniks Carmella Reisz and Natan Sharansky.

 

 

 

 

DAVENING

 

 

Leading our davening this Yomim Noraim will be our Baal Musaf, Rabbi Yosef Singer, Menahel of Mesivta Chofetz Chaim in Queens (see bio above). His heartfelt nigunim and powerful t'filos have uplifted the davening of thousands of mispallelim over all of these years. Our other inspiring baalei tefila include Chaim Kurz and Yaakov Portnoy. Together our chazanim combine to present a set of t’filos on the Yomim Noraim that both captivate and rouse our olam to join in what is always a particularly powerful davening experience. Indeed, time and time again we hear from our mispallilim how they feel their entire year is different because of the chizuk they get from these t’filos on Rosh hashana and Yom Kippur.

 

 

 

 

SHADCHANIM & SHIDDUCH PROGRAM

 

 

 

Each Yom Tov we invite well known Shadchanim from different communities to be on site and available to meet. Workshops and forums for singles and parents of singles provide insights and advice. Our shadchanim follow up aggressively after Yom Tov to advocate on behalf of those they meet at our Programs. In fact, many successful shidduchim have come about through these Yom Tov Hotel programs! As well, we host events at our programs allowing the singles present who so desire, the opportunity to meet in a productive yet comfortable and dignified setting.  

 

Leading our Shidduch program this Rosh Hashana and Shabbos Shuva (3 day Yom Tov), will be Dr. Chani Maybruch (see bio above) who aside from helping to make shidduchim has particular expertise in the area of counseling dating singles both before and after they find their bashert. We are also fortunate to have with us the successful Shadchan, Rabbi Yosef Singer (whose bio is also above). 

 

 

 

CHILDCARE

 

 

 

The Preschool Program and Day Camp are under the experienced direction of Mrs. Miriam Sklar and Mrs. Lorey Friedman, who have been providing years of exciting, creative and professionally run programs and activities for younger children. An abundance of indoor and outdoor space, together with our warm and very dedicated staff guarantee our children the time of their lives so their parents can get the most out of their  davening and shiurim on Yom Tov. ​

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