Rabbi Dr. Yaakov Jaffe is the Rabbi of the Maimonides Kehillah in Brookline, Massachusetts and Director of the Tanach program in the Maimonides School, where he has taught Sefer Yeshayahu for more than a decade. Rabbi Jaffe’s Doctorate and Ordination is from Yeshiva University, from which he holds degrees in Bible, Jewish Education, Jewish History, and where he also studied in the Wexner Kollel Elyon in advanced Talmudic Studies. He studied in Yeshivat Har Etzion in Israel, and holds a degree in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University.

Rabbi Jaffe’s has published more than two dozen scholarly articles on Tanach, Jewish Philosophy and Hebrew poetry have been published in Jewish Bible Quarterly, Hakirah, Tradition, and the Lehrhaus blog. He has also served as the Menahel of the Boston Rabbinical court and the director of the United States Bible Contest, the Chidon Ha-Tanach.