Machon Yaakov

Machon Yaakov is a baal teshuva yeshiva for men located in Har Nof, Jerusalem. Its faculty and student body are all English speaking. It is named for Yaakov Rosenberg, founder of Machon Shlomo, a similar baal teshuva yeshiva.^[1] Beryl Gershenfeld is the rosh yeshiva (dean) of both yeshivas^[2][3][4]

Yachon Maakov

Founders	Rabbi Beryl Gershenfeld, Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Jacobs
Established	2005
Director	Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Jacobs
Faculty	Rabbi Yosef Lynn, Rabbi Jonathan Taub, Rabbi Immanuel Bernstein
Address	10 Ibn Denan
Location	Har Nof, Jerusalem , Israel
Coordinates	31.782152°N 35.171696°E / 31.782152; 35.171696
Website	www.machonyaakov.org

Program

Machon Yaakov, was founded in 2005 to expand the work of Machon Shlomo^[5][6] The program, which is designed for students with little or no formal Jewish education,^[7] has a one-year minimum and a two-year maximum. Enrollment is limited to about 35 students, generally weighted about 2/3-1/3 between the first- and second- year programs.