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Rabbi Jack Bieler
KMS is indeed fortunate to have as its Rabbi a distinguished
educator and scholar, Rabbi Jack Bieler. Rabbi Bieler
was raised in Bayside, Queens, and attended local public
schools. Following graduation from Yeshiva College and the James Striar
School for
Jewish Studies in 1969, he attended Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh in Israel
in 1969-71.
Rabbi Bieler then returned to Yeshiva University where he was ordained by
the Rabbi
Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and received an MA in Jewish Education
from the
Ferkauf Graduate School of Education in 1974. Following graduation from
Yeshiva,
Rabbi Bieler served on the faculty and was Chairman of the Talmud
Department of the
Joseph H. Lookstein Upper School of Ramaz from 1974-1988. During his tenure
at
Ramaz, he was awarded a Gruss Outstanding Educator award in 1984.
Concurrently,
Rabbi Bieler served on the faculty of the Adult Education Institute of the
Lincoln Square
Synagogue between 1971-1977, and as permanent scholar-in-residence of
Congregation
Kehilath Jeshurun from 1977-1988. In 1985, he received a Jerusalem Fellows
fellowship
and spent the year with his family in Jerusalem. In 1988, Rabbi Bieler
assumed the position of Lead Teacher and Chairman of the
Judaic Studies Department at the Hebrew Academy of Greater Washington,
now the Melvin J. Berman Hebrew
Academy in Rockville, MD. He became
the Upper School Assistant Principal in charge of Judaic Studies in 1991.
In 1993 he was
appointed as Rabbi of the Kemp Mill Synagogue. He has published numerous
articles on Jewish education and
on issues facing Judaism today, especially concerning
Modern Orthodoxy.
Below are some of his recent Divrei Torah.
Older ones are archived here.
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