Halakha Department - Faculty List

Rabbi Donny Besser teaches Talmud and Halakha, serves as our Mashgiach Ruchani,and leads the ParshaClub and Mishmar Program. He earned his J.D. from Columbia Law School, received his semicha from Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, and has been involved in informal Jewish education for teens and adults throughout his career. He came to Ma’ayanot in 2005, after six years practicing law. Rabbi Besser was involved in editing the Masoret HaRav Yom Kippur Machzor, whose commentary incorporates insights of Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik. Currently, he is preparing a birkon with the Rav’s commentary.

Rabbi Zev Prince is a Talmud and Halakha teacher at Ma’ayanot. For Rabbi Prince, teaching at Ma’ayanot is a homecoming of sorts. A Teaneck native, he, along with his wife, Gila, and son recently moved back from Boca Raton, Florida, where he worked in adult education as a member of the Boca Raton Community Kollel. Prior to that, the Princes lived in Jerusalem. A graduate of Yeshiva University with a degree in Psychology, Rabbi Prince learned in the RIETS semicha program, an affiliate of Yeshiva University and its Israel Kollel in Jerusalem.