Educators

Yonah Hain is the Campus Rabbi for Columbia/Barnard Hillel, the Kraft Center for Jewish Student Life, and serves as a member of the Office of the Columbia University Chaplain

A classically trained talmudist, Rabbi Hain has served as faculty at the Drisha Institute and Mechon Hadar. He is the first Hillel rabbi to join the ranks of the Shalom Hartman Institute’s Rabbinic Leadership Initiative. He directs Yeshivat Chovevei Torah’s Campus Internship Seminar, training rabbinical students for service on college campuses. With his previous work as a rabbi at NYU, he has been a New York City campus rabbi for ten years.