Rabbi Herzl Hefter is a graduate of Yeshiva University where he learned under the tutelage of Rabbi Yerucham Gorelick זצ”ל and Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveichik זצ”ל. He received smikha at Yeshivat Har Etzion where he studied under Rav Aharon Lichtenstein for ten years.  Rabbi Hefter has taught the Kollel fellows at Yeshivat Hamivtar, the Gruss Kollel of Yeshiva University and served as the head of the Bruria Scholars Program at Midreshet Lindenbaum. He also taught at Yeshivat Mekor Chaim in Moscow and served as Rosh Kollel of the first Torah MiZion Kollel in Cleveland, Ohio. He has written numerous articles related to modernity and Hasidic thought and was most recently a research fellow at the Hartman Institute in Jerusalem.He is the Rosh Beit Midrash of Har El Yeshiva for men and women in Jerusalem.

Rabbi Hefter's visit made possible in part by JOFA, the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance