Rabbi Ephraim Baer has been teaching Torah to students of all ages for the past 35 years. For 20 years he taught in various day schools from grade 2 through 8 . In 1996, he was asked to give a gemara skills shiur for people who work during the day. For the past 25 years his focus has been on developing an innovative and effective approach to help students develop the tools and skills necessary to learn gemara independently. For 12 years he taught in Yeshiva Ohr Somayach in Monsey,New York . During his last 7 years there he designed, directed and taught at the Lahav program, a year long program designed to help motivated students develop independent learning skills in chumash, mishnah,and gemara. Currently, he teaches gemara skills in The Shaar program at Yeshivas Sh’or Yoshuv in Lawrence, New York. Rabbi Baer also tutors individuals and groups in person, on the phone and over zoom.
Rabbi Peretz (Perry) Segal was born in Johannesburg, South Africa and educated at King David School, Victory Park.
He joined the Center Program staff a division of Ohr Somayach, Jerusalem in 1998. Today he serves as a senior lecturer and Mashgiach on the program.
He is author of Vagueness Vanquished, founder and Mashgiach of Kollel Eitz Pri and Academy of Life Training (ALT) and a lecturer at Ner Le’elef, Ohr LaGolah and Jerusalem Kollel.
R’ Segal lives with his wife and family in Ramot, a neighbourhood of Jerusalem.
Rabbi Jacobs is Co-Founder, Director and a Senior Lecturer at Machon Yaakov. Originally from Ocala, Florida, Rabbi Jacobs was until 2003 a senior managing director at JP Morgan, where he oversaw global stock research on telecommunications and provided strategic advice on some of the largest mergers in media/telecom history. Prior to that, he was a partner and senior telecom analyst at Sanford Bernstein, and was three times elected to the Institutional Investor All-American Analyst team. He has acted as a frequent commentator on network television and in leading newspapers and magazines, and has testified several times before the U.S. Congress. His credits in print and broadcast journalism include nominations for both the Pulitzer Prize for investigative journalism and the Emmy Award. Rabbi Jacobs holds an MS in Journalism from Columbia University (1985) and a BA in History from Northwestern University, where he graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa (1983). Rabbi Jacobs left Wall Street in the Summer of 2003 to move his family to Israel to pursue full-time his interest in studying and teaching Jewish law, philosophy and business ethics.
Rabbi Ephraim Baer has been teaching Torah to students of all ages for the past 35 years. For 20 years he taught in various day schools from grade 2 through 8 . In 1996, he was asked to give a gemara skills shiur for people who work during the day. For the past 25 years his focus has been on developing an innovative and effective approach to help students develop the tools and skills necessary to learn gemara independently. For 12 years he taught in Yeshiva Ohr Somayach in Monsey,New York . During his last 7 years there he designed, directed and taught at the Lahav program, a year long program designed to help motivated students develop independent learning skills in chumash, mishnah,and gemara. Currently, he teaches gemara skills in The Shaar program at Yeshivas Sh’or Yoshuv in Lawrence, New York. Rabbi Baer also tutors individuals and groups in person, on the phone and over zoom.
