The Jerusalem Kollel

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|formation = 2002

|type = Kollel

|location = 140 מעגלי הרי"ם לוין, Sanhedria Murchevet, Jerusalem

|membership = 80+

|purpose = Jewish Leadership

|language = English, Hebrew,

|leader_title = Dean

|leader_name = Rabbi Yitzchak Berkovits

|num_staff = 15-20

|website = {{url|www.thejerusalemkollel.com}}

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The Jerusalem Kollel is a rabbinic education program with the stated goal of training kollel couples to assume positions of leadership in Jewish communities worldwide.Seltzer, Nachman (October 25, 2006) "To conquer the world" Hamodia Magazine Feature Section

The intensive 3-year program covers the laws of Shabbat, Nidah, and Issur v'Heteras well as a large body of other legal areas and in addition to Jewish Philosophy and Ethics. There is also an additional training component which includes such areas as public speaking, rabbinic counselling, kashrus, non-profit management among other things.

Established in the autumn of the Jewish calendar year 5762 (2002), the kollel opened with twenty young men. {{As of|2022}}, the Kollel maintained a student body of approximately 60 handpicked couples and had placed over 300 alumni in positions of community leadership throughout the world.{{cite web|title=Jerusalem Kollel website|url=http://www.thejerusalemkollel.com/|accessdate=9 January 2011}}

The Dean of the Kollel is Rabbi Yitzchak Berkovits, a respected advisor on contemporary halachic issues, especially for Jerusalem’s English-speaking haredi community.{{cite news|last=Wrobel|first=Sharon|title=Is facebook kosher?|url=http://www.jpost.com/HealthAndSci-Tech/InternetAndTechnology/Article.aspx?id=168983|accessdate=25 December 2011|newspaper=Jerusalem Post|date=2010-02-17}} Rabbi Berkovits was a student of the Mir yeshiva (Jerusalem) and served as Menahel Ruchani of Yeshivas Aish HaTorah in Jerusalem for 16 years, before helping to start the JK.Rose, Binyamin. "Learning to Care: A 'Sichas HaChag' with Rav Yitzchak Berkovits, shlita". Mishpacha, 16 May 2010, pp. 38–46.