Rabbi Herzl Hefter is the founder and Rosh Beit Midrash of The Har’el Beit Midrash in Jerusalem, a beit midrash for advanced rabbinic studies for men and women. In June of 2015, the beit midrash was the first to grant orthodox smikha to men and women together.  Rabbi Hefter is a graduate of Yeshiva University where he learned under the tutelage of Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveichick זצ”ל. He received smikha from Rav Aharon Lichtenstein זצ"ל at Yeshivat Har Etzion where he studied for ten years.  Rabbi Hefter has taught the Kollel fellows at the Gruss Kollel of Yeshiva University and served as the head of the Bruria Scholars Program at Midreshet Lindenbaum. He also taught at Yeshivat Mekor Chaim in Moscow and served as Rosh Kollel of the first Torah MiZion Kollel in Cleveland, Ohio. He has written numerous articles related to modernity and Hasidic thought .His divrei Torah and online shiurim can be accessed at  www.har-el.org