Community Kollel -> Chinuch | Phoenix
Rabbi Raphael Landesman is a founder and the current Head of Shearim Torah High School for Girls, in Phoenix, Arizona. This is the first Orthodox Girls’ High School in the history of Arizona. Rabbi Landesman also currently serves as Rabbi of Congregation Ohr HaTorah in Phoenix, a position he has held since August of 2012.
He originally arrived in Phoenix as one of the founding members of the Phoenix Community Kollel, and served as their Director of Education from 2006-2008. Rabbi Landesman restarted NCSY of Phoenix and served as Chapter Advisor from 2001-2007, sending a number of public school graduates to Yeshiva. He also founded the Jewish Student Union of Phoenix, which hosted Jewish identity clubs in several Phoenix area public high schools, and served as director from 2001-2005. In addition to this, Rabbi Landesman was an instructor for the Phoenix Bureau of Jewish Education’s Hebrew High program from 2000-2005, lecturing on topics ranging from relationships to Jewish history.
Rabbi Landesman has authored a number of articles for the Jewish News of Phoenix and is a contributing writer to its weekly Torah Talk Parsha column. He also serves on the board of the Phoenix Jewish Tuition Organization.
His wife, Cindy, is Director of Women’s Programming for the Phoenix Community Kollel, and is a licensed Speech-Language Pathologist working out of the Madison Elementary School District.