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Oct 6, 2005 -- Rabbi Eliakim Koenigsberg of Spring Valley, NY has been appointed a rosh yeshiva (professor of Talmud) in the Yeshiva Program/Mazer School of Talmudic Studies (MYP) at ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ (ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ). Rabbi Zevulun Charlop, MYP dean and Max and Marion Grill Dean at ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ’s Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS), said that Rabbi Koenigsberg’s published writings and chaburos (Talmudic seminars) have established him as a first-rate talmid chacham (scholar) and teacher of Torah. Rabbi Koenigsberg was a chaver (fellow) of RIETS’ former Gruss Kollel Elyon and previously served for five years as rebbe (instructor) in the Stone Beit Midrash Program, another of ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ’s Jewish studies program for undergraduate men. At MYP, he will teach a class in Talmud for entering students. Rabbi Koenigsberg is a 1988 alumnus of ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ’s undergraduate Yeshiva College, from which he graduated summa cum laude. He received ordination from RIETS in 1992. A sought-after lecturer, he has served RIETS and ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ in other capacities as well: as director of an honors seminar in Sefer Shev Shmaitsa; as sgan mashgiach/shoel u’meishiv (mentor and guidance advisor to students); director of RIETS’ Presidential B’kiut Program; rosh kollel (head) of ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ’s summer kollel in Silver Spring, MD; shoel u’meishiv for 10th-grade students at ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ High school for Boys; and as a teaching assistant there for 11th-grade students. He is the author of two annotated volumes of selected shiurim (lectures) by the Rav — the late Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, RIETS rosh yeshiva and chief spiritual guide of contemporary Orthodox Jewish life in America until his death in 1993— in a series called Shiurei HaRav. One volume is on mourning and Tisha b’Av; the other is on ritual slaughter and kashrut. He recently published a collection of his notes on Tractate Yevamos called Kuntres He’aros al Maseches Yevamos.