Faculty and Administration

Rabbi Dr. Herbert C. Dobrinsky, Vice President for University Affairs, Co-Founder of Sephardic Studies Programs and Consultant to Jacob E. Safra Institute of Sephardic Studies and all other Sephardic Divisions




Rabbi Dr. Elie Abadie, Director of the Jacob E. Safra Institute Academic Programs, Faculty Member at Stern College for Women (teaches Halakha)




Rabbi Moshe Tessone, Director of Sephardic Community Program, Faculty Isaac Breuer College of Hebraic Studies (teaches Halakha) and Faculty at the Philip and Sarah Belz School of Jewish Music (teaches Sephardic Liturgical Music and Cantillation)

Rashei Yeshiva

Rabbi Eliyahu Ben Haim, Sephardic Rosh Yeshiva Chairholder, Maxwell R. Maybaum Chair in Talmud and Sephardic Halakhic Codes (teaches Talmud class for 20-24 students (majority 65-75% are Sephardim) a leading Sephardic Rabbinic Authority for the Greater Sephardic Community)




Rabbi Zvulun Lieberman, Sephardic Rosh Yeshiva Chairholder, Maxwell R. Maybaum Chair in Talmud and Sephardic Halakhic Codes (Professor of Talmud and Halakha for Sephardic Rabbinic Students Rabbi Emeritus of Beth Torah Congregation, Brooklyn, and former Head of the Syrian Community Bet Din)

Professor Daniel Tsadik, Assistant Professor of Sephardic and Iranian studies at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies. (Noted scholar of Iranian Jewish Studies and Middle Eastern Countries and Jews Living under Islam). Also teaches undergraduate courses at YC and SCW.

Academic Faculty

Professor Ronnie Perelis, Chief Rabbi Dr. Isaac Abraham and Jelena (Rachel) Alcalay Assistant Professor of Sephardic Studies at BRGS (teaches Judeo Spanish history and literature, and history of Balkan Jewish Communities)




Professor Haim Tawil, Faculty YC, Associate Professor of Hebrew, renowkned scholar on Yemenite history and currentaffairs




Rabbi Hayim Angel, Faculty YC, Professor of Bible




Rabbi Ely Allen, Faculty, Mechinah Program


Rabbi Avidan Elkin, Faculty Mechinah Program




Rabbi Abraham Sarfaty, Faculty member of YU's Stone Beit Midrash Program and is an assistant to Rosh Kollel, Rabbi Hershel Schachter of the Marcos and Adina Katz Kollel. (Rabbi of the daily Sephardic Minyan at the Wilf Campus)


Rabbi Yosef Yanetz, Shoel U’Maishiv, Sephardic Beit Midrash and is a Kollel Elyon Fellow


Rabbi Lawrence Hajioff, Jewish Studies Faculty, Stern College for Women




Rabbi Richard Hidary, Faculty, Stern College for Women, Assistant Professor of Jewish History




Rabbi Nissim Elnekaveh, Library Consultant on Ladino and Sephardic Materials


Rabbi Steven Schneid, Faculty Belz School of Jewish Music, teaches Safrut (Torah calligraphy according to Sephardic tradition)


Joseph Angel, YC, Assistant Professor of Bible




Rabbi Gideon Shloush, Faculty, Stern College for Women, Adjunct Instructor of Judaic Studies