Miami Beach Community Kollel

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Miami Beach Community Kollel
Formation	1990
Type	Kollel
Location	3767 Chase Avenue Miami Beach, Florida
Membership	11
Rosh Kollel	Rabbi Yaacov Gross
Key people	Rabbi Berish Braun
Staff	3

The Miami Beach Community Kollel, located at 3767 Chase Avenue in Miami Beach, Florida, is an institute for advanced learning, rabbinical training, and adult education. It has been serving the orthodox Jewish communities of Miami Beach and South Florida since 1994.

1 Composition
2 Programs
3 2007 Arson
4 References

[edit] Composition

The Kollel consists of two Roshei Kollel and nine Yungerleit. The Yungerleit generally come from the Lakewood yeshiva Beth Medrash Govoha and learn in the Kollel for an average of five years. The Roshei Kollel are Rabbi Yaacov Gross (son-in-law of Rabbi Yisroel Belsky) and Rabbi Berish Braun.

The Miami Beach Community Kollel is affiliated with the network of similar institutions around the world that are associated with the famed Rabbi Aaron Kotler Institute for Advanced Torah Study in Lakewood, NJ.

[edit] Programs

The Kollel also offers eight daily and about ten weekly classes on a variety of subjects. These classes are open to the community and are well attended. The Kollel occasionally offers larger lectures, and special events especially during holiday times. The Kollel is also a community synagogue offering services three times a day and on the Sabbath and Jewish holidays.

[edit] 2007 Arson

Early in the morning of October 8, 2007, two separate fires were set in the kollel, destroying the main sactuary. The Sifrei Torah were unharmed, being stored in a fire-prrof safe. Damages have been estimated as between $300,000 and $400,000.^[1]