Yehoshua Fass
Yehoshua Fass (born July 9, 1973) is an American-Israeli rabbi and the co-founder and Executive Director of Nefesh B'Nefesh. The Jerusalem Post listed him among the fifty most influential Jews of 2017, and he is the recipient of the Moskowitz Prize for Zionism. Early life and education Fass was born in New York. At age 20, upon completing his B.A. in biology and education at Yeshiva University, he planned a career in medicine. He was too young to enter medical school, however, so he taught in New York and New Jersey, and he decided instead to pursue a future in education. He earned an M.A. degree in education, and rabbinic ordination through the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary at Yeshiva University. In 2002, Fass immigrated to Israel with the first Nefesh B'Nefesh charter flight. Fass lives in Beit Shemesh with his wife and seven children. Career Fass was a Judaic Studies Fellow of the Judaic Fellowship Program in Boca Raton, Florida. Eighteen months after starting the Fellowship Program, Fass was appointed assistant and then associate rabbi of the Boca Raton Synagogue. He sat on the Orthodox Rabbinical Council Beit Din, and opened and served as director of the Helen Julius