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Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe was born in Jerusalem, and raised in New York. He has learned in some of the most prominent Torah centers of the world, including Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem, and Beth Medrash Gevoha in Lakewood, NJ.
He holds several Rabbinic ordinations including from former Chief Rabbi of Israel Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu Z"L. Rabbi Wolbe has been very active in Jewish outreach since 1996 across the globe, including the US, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Canada and Israel. Rabbi Wolbe has published numerous books in the Russian Language and distributed over 12,000 copies to the multitude of Jewish communities he was serving.
Rabbi Wolbe teaches several Mussar classes every week in various communities around Greater Houston. His passion for Mussar started at young age, while developing a close relationship with his legendary grandfather, Mussar Master, Rabbi Shlomo Wolbe, Z"L. Much of his lectures and classes are based on the writings and teachings from his grandfather.
Rabbi Wolbe lives in Houston, Texas with his wife, Zehava, and their seven delicious children, Dovi, Meira, Shlomo, Ahuva, Yehuda, Yitzi & Hadassah. Since 2005, they've been working with TORCH - The Houston Kollel, Houston's premier resource for meaningful Jewish education, and love every second of it.
Zehava grew up in a place called “joisey†or New Jersey (for those of you in Rio Linda), and moved to Houston, Texas in 2005. In 2009 she was the regional advisor for TORCH’s JSU clubs in local Houston Public High Schools and then became the Director of the ASCENT Women’s Division of TORCH. Today, Zehava is spearheading the brand new TORCH YJC - Young Jewish Couples Division, focusing on marriage, child-rearing and building a Jewish home.
More than her regular one-on-one learning and hosting of regular Shabbat guests, Zehava is most proud of her seven children, Dovi, Meira, Shlomo, Ahuva, Yehuda, Yitzi and Hadassah.
Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe is the Director of Outreach for TORCH, a Houston-based Jewish education and community outreach organization. In that capacity he has delivered hundreds of lectures, classes, and workshops on a wide range of subjects. A believer of harnessing new technologies for the dissemination of Torah, Rabbi Wolbe has launched and maintains five podcast channels (The Jewish History Podcast, The Parsha Podcast, This Jewish Life, Eternal Ethics, and TORAH 101), four of which have been ranked #1 overall worldwide on iTunes in their category (“Judaismâ€). His podcasts have been downloaded hundreds of thousands of times by listeners in 118 countries and all 50 states. Rabbi Wolbe holds Rabbinic ordinations from Rabbi Zalman Nechemia Goldberg, Chief Justice of the Supreme Rabbinical Court of Jerusalem and Aish HaTorah. His website is rabbiwolbe.com
Rabbi Wolbe and his wife Chaya are the proud parents of Akiva, Yehoshua, Miriam, Shlomo, Yitzy and Rivka.
Chaya Wolbe holds degrees in Jewish Education and Computer Science. Previously, Chaya taught Computer Science and English, and currently she serves as the Mechaneches (Lead Educator) for the Torah Girls Academy, the all-girls Jewish High School in Houston.
A native of Toronto, Canada, Chaya’s pastimes include cake decorating and tending to her five wonderful children.
Rabbi Nagel was one of the founding members of the TORCH faculty. He is from upstate NY, where he studied in the Advanced Talmudic Studies Program of Yeshiva Shaar HaTorah. Rabbi Nagel brings us his love of learning and teaching Torah, having taught in Yeshiva Shaar HaTorah and at Time Out for Values, an adult education program for newcomers to Jewish education. His Daf Yomi class, which he has taught for over six years is one of TORCH’s most popular offerings. He is also very popular with the teenagers who attend his nightly classes at Yeshivas Ohr Hanegev. Yaakov and his wife Sari have six children, Meira, Tamar, Moshe, Devorah, Aliza, and Riva.
Rabbi Yaakov Cohen was born and raised in California. He attended Cal State University, Northridge, where he studied philosophy and psychology. He went on to study at a number of leading yeshivot in Jerusalem where he received his Rabbinic ordination. He has led adult classes and seminars in both America and Israel, and is the premier educator of Kabbalah and mystical teaching in the Bible Belt. Since Joining TORCH in 2011 his following continues to grow and reach tremendous audiences throughout the greater Houston area.
He is married to Devorah, a talented educator and faculty member of ASCENT, the womens division of TORCH and together have seven remarkable children.
Devorah Cohen grew up in Jerusalem and spent the last 17 years in Texas in various Jewish educational roles. She loves teaching and has taught a wide spectrum of ages from children, teen to adults from diverse backgrounds. Devorah’s passions are in special education, drama, stand up comedy and eJEWcation and she has a special ability to teach Judaism in a relevant, meaningful & fun way.
I cannot adequately express my deep appreciation to you and your family for having me as a guest in your home over Shabbos and Yom Tov. Being able to experience those sacred days with you, your most amazing family and the Jewish community gave me a greater understanding of the meaning of Shabbos and Yom Tov. It is truly a gift from the Almighty to the Jewish people, as are you, your family and everyone at TORCH.
- Dan K.
You picked a wonderful partner for me; I thank you sooooo much for that. My Partner in Torah is so kind and wise. I consider her a friend, not just a study partner now.
- Tania S.
- Don L.
The Houston Jewish Community Foundation, in partnership with the Jewish Federation of Greater Houston's Jerome Robinson Family Young Adult Division, has named Rabbi Johnny Ouzzan and Greg Weil as the 2015 recipients of the Malcolm C. Gluckman ...
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Houston Chronicle
Allan Turner
March 13, 2015
The wine in Rachel Solnick's cup was kosher, produced in accordance with strictures grounded in the Old Testament.
The daughter of a Jewish father and a Chinese-American mother, the ...
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On Thursday, Dec. 18, TORCH brought some extra Chanukah light to Congregation Beth Yeshurun with the introduction of a new series of classes based on the recently published book, �Rav Wolbe on the Chumush� (ArtScroll), by Rabbi Yitzchak Caplan. ...
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TORCH (Torah Outreach Resource Center of Houston) will celebrate its 15th anniversary with a gala dinner at Congregation Beth Yeshurun on Nov. 19. The event not only will celebrate 15 years of its mission of connecting Jews to Judaism but also will ...
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