Meet the Kaplans

Rabbi Aryeh and Sharona Kaplan are launching their fifth year as the JLIC couple at UCLA.

Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan hails from Teaneck, NJ. He met Sharona (also from Teaneck) in NCSY during his high school years at Torah Academy of Bergen County. Aryeh studied at Yeshivat Har Etzion and Yeshiva University before moving to Los Angeles in 2004. Aryeh has since become well established in California. Besides maintaining an array of chevrutot and chaburot at the Hillel at UCLA (where he also champions the ping pong table) he offers shiurim in the Medical School and the Law School on campus, at California State University, Northridge, at Southwestern University and to graduates and young professionals working in downtown Los Angeles. He has served as the Rabbi for the High Holidays at Knesset Israel in Sacramento and has delivered shiurim at YULA, to professionals at a local law firm, and at a variety of shuls in the extended Los Angeles area.

Sharona Kaplan is a graduate of Bruriah High School for Girls. She studied at Michlalah Jerusalem College for Women and subsequently earned her BA from Stern College. She received a Masters in Social Work from Yeshiva University's Wurzweiler School of Social Work and did her graduate internship at the UJA Federation of New York and the JCC in Manhattan. Sharona enjoys studying with the fantastic women at UCLA and has become a sought after Kallah teacher as well as a featured speaker at Rosh Chodesh Luncheons, women's programs and sorority events on campus.
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