Faculty

A Teaneck, New Jersey, native, Rabbi Yonah Berman is passionate about Israel, the Jewish community, and Jewish learning. Rabbi Berman studied at Yeshivat Har Etzion, received his BA in psychology at Yeshiva University and served in the IDF Tank Corps., receiving honors for excellence in training. After receiving semikha in 2007 from YCT, Rabbi ...Read more >

Dr. Michelle Friedman is the Founder of the Sharon and Steven Lieberman Chair in Pastoral Counseling. 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 ...Read more >

Rabbi Shmuel Hain is an adjunct faculty member at YCT where he teaches Hilchot Aveilut with an emphasis on integrating halakhic and pastoral perspectives. He is a pulpit rabbi, educator, and scholar. Under his leadership, YIOZ of North Riverdale/Yonkers has transformed into a vibrant community synagogue and embarked on a major expansion project. As Rosh Beit Midrash ...Read more >

Rabbi Ysoscher Katz studied at the Satmar, Brisk, and Beit Yosef Navaradok yeshivot and received semikha shortly after high school. He has taught Talmud and halakhah at a wide array of institutions. For nine years, he delivered a daily daf yomi shiur- twice a day in Borough Park- attended by many. During the past ...Read more >

Rabbi Dov Linzer is the President and Rosh HaYeshiva of YCT Rabbinical School. Having served as YCT’s Rosh HaYeshiva for over 20 years, Rabbi Linzer became its President in 2019 and assumed both the institutional and Torah-based leadership of YCT. In this dual capacity, Rabbi Linzer has set the vision for YCT as a Center of ...Read more >

Miriam Schacter joined the faculty of YCT in 2008. She also has a private practice on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and supervises psychologists and clinical social workers who present case material weekly at supervisory meetings. Ms. Schacter is a graduate of Wurzweiler School of Social Work and completed her psychoanalytic training at ...Read more >

Rabbi Haggai Resnikoff teaches Talmud and Halakha and is the Director of Community Learning. He learned for two years at Yeshivat HaKibbutz HaDati at Ein Tzurim before majoring in history at the University of California in Berkeley. Following graduation from Berkeley he spent several years in Israel doing graduate coursework in the Hebrew University ...Read more >

Rabbi Avi Weiss founded Yeshivat Chovevei Torah in 1999. He is also the founding rabbi of the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale-the Bayit, a congregation of 850 families in Bronx, New York, founder of Yeshivat Maharat, and the co-founder of the International Rabbinic Fellowship (IRF).  Rav Avi served as National Chairman of the Student Struggle ...Read more >