(Los Angeles, California ) Dec 28, 2005 -- Rabbi N. Daniel Korobkin is Rosh Kehilla for Kehillat Yavneh, a Jewish-life campus in Los Angeles, where he lectures and writes on Jewish philosophy and other Jewish topics of interest. He acts as spiritual leader of the Kehilla’s minyan and of Yeshivat Yavneh, a large yeshiva elementary school on Yavneh’s campus.

He received his rabbinic ordination from Ner Israel Rabbinical College in Baltimore, where he studied Jewish law, ethics and philosophy. He received his Master of Science degree from the Johns Hopkins University School for Engineering at the Applied Physics Laboratory. He was an adjunct professor at Muhlenberg College, and wrote a feature column for Hakol, the Lehigh Valley’s Jewish newspaper. He has served as spiritual leader for Young Israel Synagogue of San Diego and for Congregation Sons of Israel in Allentown, PA. When reflecting on his rabbinic career thus far, one of the accomplishments Rabbi Korobkin is most proud of is having built the Eruv in Allentown, PA.

Rabbi Korobkin is a member of the RCC and serves on the Geirus Beis Din. He is the author of the new translation of the classic philosophic work The Kuzari: In Defense of the Despised Faith (Jason Aronson Publishers), currently being prepared for republication by Feldheim Publishers. In addition, Rabbi Korobkin serves the area as a certified mohel.

Rabbi Korobkin and his wife Karen reside with their children in Los Angeles.