Biography
Rabbi Berkovits was raised in the Brownsville and Boro Park neighborhoods of Brooklyn, New York. He studied at Toras Emes Kamenitz in Boro Park, Brooklyn, New York before leaving to Israel. In Israel he studied at the Mir yeshiva in Jerusalem. His parents are both Holocaust survivors.
He served as Menahel Ruchani of Yeshivas Aish HaTorah in Jerusalem for 16 years. He developed and supervised that yeshiva's rabbinic ordination program, graduating hundreds of students. He also designed and taught the halakha curriculum at EYAHT, Aish HaTorah's College of Jewish Studies for Women.
Berkovits is a leading proponent of what is known as the "kiruv movement". This means that he actively exhorts his students and followers to enter the field of Orthodox Jewish outreach.
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