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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.
Jewish Year 5770
- Dvar Torah from Rosh Hashana, 5770: "Renewing the Ability to Experience and Express Oneself"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat Shuvah, 5770: "The Importance of Engaging in Personal Inventories"
- Dvar Torah from Shmini Atzeret 5770: "Showing Up"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat Vayera, 5770: "Listening for Spiritual Melodies"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat Chayei Sarah, 5770: "Eliezer as Shaliach"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat Toldot, 5770: "Raising `Difficult' Children"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat Vayetze, 5770: "Taking Sensible Risks"
- Dvar Torah for Chanukah (from Kol Mevaser), 5770: "Oil explorations"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat Miketz, 5770: "When Paths of Individuals Cross"
- How coincidences ultimately influence long term history: Miketz 5770
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat Vayigash, 5770: "Yaakov and Yosef"
- Irreligious Fearers of God: VaEira 2010
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat Bo, 5770: "Haiti and Theodicy"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat Teruma, 5770: "Feeling and Acting as Part of a Greater Community"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat Tetzave, 5770: "Clothes Make the Man"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat VaYakhel-Pekudei, 5770: "On again, off again"
- Another Dvar Torah from Shabbat VaYakhel-Pekudei, 5770: "The Mishkan and Tora U'Mada"
- a recent article from Jewish Action magazine: "A New and Potent Curriculum for the Jewish Day School"
- Dvar Torah from Pesach, 5770: "A variety of Pesach greetings"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat Shmini, 5770: "Eating Meat"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat Tazria-Metzora, 5770: "Silver Linings"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat Acharei-Kedoshim, 5770: "Holiness and Purity"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat Behar-Bechukotai, 5770: "A Covenental Partnership"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat Naso, 5770: "Blessing One Another Presumes Loving One Another"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat Beha'alotcha, 5770: "One Size Does Not Fit All when It Comes to Avodat HaShem"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat Shelach Lecha, 5770: "Misguided Foci Resulting in Major Miscalculations"
- Response to presentation of an award from Israel bonds
- Comments on a Torah dedication for the US Armed Forces
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat Balak, 5770: "How Blessed were Bilaam's Blessings?"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat Matot-Masai, 5770: "Personal Challenges Generated by Divine Symmetries"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat Re'eh, 5770: "Children of God?": Conditionally or Unconditionally
- Dvar Torah from Elul, 5770: Enhancing Prayer, and thereby Faith and Spirituality, in the Modern Orthodox World
- Dvar Torah from Ki Tetze, 5770: Knowing Where We have Been Should Affect Us Profoundly
Jewish Year 5771
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