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RABBI AVRAHAM JACOBOVITZ
NATIONAL DIRECTOR

Rabbi Avraham Jacobovitz, a native of Tel Aviv, Israel, studied at Slobodka Rabbinical College and received his ordination from the Mirrer Yeshiva Central Institute in Brooklyn, New York. He continued with his postgraduate studies at the Kollel Institute of Greater Detroit.

In 1980 Rabbi Jacobovitz founded Machon L’Torah, The Jewish Learning Network of Michigan, to expose Jews of all walks of life to the beauty and depth of the Torah and its teachings. In 1996 Machon L’Torah established The Jewish Resource Center, a facility at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, which serves the nearly 6,500 Jewish students enrolled at the university, the Jewish faculty of the university, and the members of Ann Arbor’s Jewish community. 

While the Jewish Learning Network of Michigan has been successful in all areas of outreach to Jewish communities in Michigan, its focus was always on its college outreach efforts to students in numerous universities throughout Michigan. The unprecedented success and effectiveness of those programs suggested to Rabbi Jacobovitz that those programs might be replicated at college campuses throughout North America.

In 2002, The Jewish Learning Network of Michigan established Jewish Awareness AMerica (JAAM) as a national awareness program for Jewish students throughout America’s universities. Though JAAM was initiated only two years ago, its accomplishments to date are truly a breakthrough in the field of college outreach. Its flagship program, the Maimonides Jewish Leaders Fellowship, is by far the fastest growing Jewish leadership training project in the United States and Canada.

Rabbi Jacobovitz lectures extensively throughout North America’s colleges under the auspices of JAAM and on behalf of the Hillel student centers and numerous student organizations. He also lectures nationally on the subjects of college outreach, intermarriage, Jewish law, customs, and thought.

Rabbi Jacobovitz currently serves as JAAM's National Director.