The Ba'al Teshuva and the Experience of Return
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Dr. Lisa Aiken
Lisa Aiken received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Loyola University of Chicago. She was the Chief Psychologist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, a clinical assistant professor at New York Medical College and St. John's University, and a clinical associate professor at Long Island University. She had a private psychotherapy practice in New York City, then in Jerusalem after making Aliya in 2002. She also works as a senior psychologist for Yedidut Toronto. Dr. Aiken has authored/co-authored…
Rabbi Daniel Korobkin
Rabbi N. Daniel Korobkin is mara d’asra (senior rabbi) of Beth Avraham Yoseph of Toronto Congregation (“The BAYT”). He received his rabbinic ordination from HaRav Yaakov Ruderman zt”l, of Ner Israel Rabbinic College. He has served pulpits in San Diego, Los Angeles, and Allentown, PA. Rabbi Korobkin holds a Master of Science degree from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Graduate School, as well as a Master of Arts degree in Medieval Jewish and Islamic Thought from UCLA. He is…
Rabbi Harvey Belovski
Harvey Belovski has been rabbi of Golders Green Synagogue since 2003. A graduate in mathematics from University College, Oxford, he gained semicha from Gateshead Yeshiva, earned a PhD in hermeneutics from Birkbeck, University of London and is currently a post-graduate psychology student at City University. Rabbi Belovski is principal and a founding governor of Rimon Jewish Primary School, head of modern rabbinic thought at LSJS, rav and rabbinic consultant of Chaplaincy, rosh midrasha of the Judi Back Women's Institute for Torah Studies, and a faculty member at the Montefiore College Semicha course. In 2014 he was…
Rabbi Sholom Schwartz
Rabbi Shalom Schwartz was the Founding Director of Aish Toronto from 1981-1991. From 1991-2001 directed Aish’s Russian Program in Israel and the Former Soviet Union. In 2008, he launched Project Aseret, the Ten Commandments Project, which aims to establish the Ten Commandments as a central element of Israeli national identity. He also now does Leadership coaching for Aish Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Shalom and his wife Debbie have 7 children and 11 grandchildren.