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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Head of School |
| Location | Houston, TX, United States |
| Introduction | Rabbi Yerachmiel Garfield moved to Houston to become principal of SG/TE, in 2010. Having grown up in Pennsylvania, Rabbi Garfield continued his rabbinic studies after high school in Jerusalem under the tutelage of Rabbi Zvi Kushelevsky. After four years he relocated to Baltimore, MD, where he earned a Bachelor of Talmudic Law from Ner Israel Rabbinical College in Baltimore, MD. He became an ordained rabbi by receiving Smicha from Rabbi Berel Wein. |
| Interests | In 2001, Rabbi Garfield moved with his young family to Atlanta and began teaching ninth grade in the newly founded Yeshiva Ohr Yisrael, where he would eventually become the assistant principal. Rabbi Garfield received the Jewish Federation’s "Educator of the Year" award in 2006, representing all Jewish day schools in Atlanta. Concurrent to his teaching, Rabbi Garfield served for six years as the school counselor at the Torah Day School of Atlanta and as youth director at Congregation Ariel. Rabbi Garfield holds a M.S. in Counseling and a Post-Masters Certificate in Supervision and Administration from Johns Hopkins University. He is also a Georgia state certified principal and has completed the Torah Umesorah National Fellowship for Principals program. Rabbi Garfield writes a column for Hamodia, a national Jewish newspaper, and during the summer, returns to Baltimore where he serves as adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University, School of Education. |