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Rabbi Sender Haber

Rabbi Sender Haber divided his youth between Buffalo, NY and Melbourne, Australia. He studied at several Yeshivos including The Mir in Yerushalayim and Bais Medrash Govoha in Lakewood.

In 2001 Rabbi Haber and his wife Chamie (of Toronto and Monsey) moved to Norfolk,Virginia as founding members of the Norfolk Area Community Kollel. On August 1, 2012 Rabbi Haber was installed as the Rabbi at Congregation Bnai Israel in Norfolk

Rabbi Haber is well known throughout Hampton Roads, having arrived there over 10 years ago as one of the original four members of the Norfolk Area Community Kollel. In that capacity, Rabbi Haber was involved in community wide programming, teaching, and outreach. He has inspired many Jews to expand their Jewish identity and increase their love of Torah and commitment to its observance. Everyone who knows Rabbi Haber is touched by his breadth of Torah knowledge and his ability to convey the wisdom of the ages in such a way as to make those esoteric writings accessible to persons of all levels of experience and a variety of backgrounds.

Rabbi Haber has served in a number of capacities during his years in Norfolk. He has been the leader of B’nai Israel’s daily Daf Yomi program for over five years, meeting each morning at 6:00 a.m, seven days a week with a group of dedicated adult students of Talmud. On August 1, 2012 this worldwide movement celebrated another completion of the 7 ½ year cycle of Talmud study with a Siyum (celebration of completions) attended by literally hundreds of thousands of Jew from around the country meeting in New York, as well as similar gatherings in cities around the world. With Rabbi Haber at the helm, our Norfolk Daf Yomi group was one of only five groups recognized around the Country as exemplary of dedicated Talmud study.

Since 2003 Rabbi Haber has been a teacher of Jewish Studies at Toras Chaim Day School in Portsmouth, teaching boys and girls of all ages, with a focus on Gemara, Halacha, and Chumash. He has also taught at Yeshivas Aish Kodesh in Norfolk, and he has served as Assistant Rabbi of B’nai Israel for the past 6 years. He also serves as the unofficial Rabbi of the “Lost Tribe,” Tidewater’s Jewish Motorcycle group!

While handling all of these responsibilities, he has continued to participate in numerous Chavrusos (one-on-one learning partnerships) covering a wide range of topics and writings.

Rabbi Haber and his wife Chamie have been married for 12 years. They have four children, Minna (9), Moshe (6), Ely (4), and Akiva Meir, born in August of 2012. They both come from rabbinic families steeped in Torah, Kiruv and Chesed. Rabbi Haber received his Rabbinic Ordination (Yoreh Yoreh) from Rabbi Sender Rosenblum and Rabbi Mordechai Freidlander of the Jerusalem Beth Din. He was awarded a Teaching Certificate by Torah Umesorah Association for Jewish Day Schools in 2004 and again in 2009.

Chamie is a talented preschool teacher, having taught at Hebrew Academy for 6 years and more recently at Toras Chaim. She has also been a popular mentor for adults and teens, teaching classes and spearheading learning and fundraising programs, including being the driving force behind the weekly Women’s Learning Program at B’nai Israel for over 5 years. Vivacious and outgoing, she has endless energy to devote to her family, the community, and inviting Shabbos guests into their home, and she looks forward to increasing her role at the Shul.

Rabbi Haber is author of the popular blog "Out of the Loop"