Rabbi Dr. Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff, well-known teacher, author and historian, will be Scholar-in-Residence on November 16-17 at Kesser Maariv, 4341 Golf, Skokie. Check back soon for his schedule of lectures on Shabbat and at a festive Melave Malka.

ABOUT RABBI RAKEFFET

Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff is Professor of Rabbinic Literature at Yeshiva University's Caroline and Joseph S. Gruss Institute in Jerusalem. He is a noted scholar, author and teacher who has taught thousands of students in his over 50 years of teaching. His lectures on Halacha, History and Contemporary Orthodxy are heard by thousands of people over the internet at www.yutorah.org.

He is the author of Bernard Revel: builder of American Jewish Orthodoxy, Silver Era in American Jewish Orthodoxy: Rabbi Eliezer and His Generation, The Rav: The World of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Rakafot Aharon Vol I: A Collection of Published Scholorship in the Realms of Halakah, Hashkafah, and Jewish History, and, most recently, of his memoirs, From Washington Avenue to Washington Street, in which he describes his travels to the Soviet Union on behalf of Israel's Mossad.

Rabbi Dr. Rakeffet and his wife, residents of Jerusalem, are the parents of three daughters, and are proud grandparents to many grandchildren.