Rachel Kornfeld was born in Montreal, Quebec-Canada. She attended high school there and graduated as valedictorian of her class. Following high school, she spent two years in seminary and received her diploma as a teacher of Judaic Studies. Upon completing her teacher training she studied at Touro College in NY. She graduated “summa cum laude” with a B.S. in Communication Disorders with a minor in education. She also holds a Masters Degree in Health Sciences, Speech and Hearing Disorders. She is an ASHA accredited Speech Language Pathologist. Rachel has vast experience in the areas of children’s programming and education. She has worked as a successful counselor and head counselor in California, Florida and North Carolina. Upon graduating she worked as a teacher and assistant program director at Free Hebrew for Juniors, a supplementary school providing Hebrew and Jewish studies to public school students.

Rabbi Eli Kornfeld grew up in Seattle, Washington, is the third of ten siblings his father is a The Chabad representative in Mercer Island, WA, a leading Rabbi of the Jewish community and serves as the spiritual leader of Congregation Shevet Achim. He attended High School at the educational institute Oholei Torah in Brooklyn, NY, meriting to learn from the Lubavitcher Rebbe, of righteous memory. In 1997, he attended yeshiva in Kfar Chabad, Israel and then in Budapest, Hungary. He earned a B.S. of Religious Studies from the Rabbinical College of America in Morristown, NJ. He was part of a founding group of Yeshiva students who were the first class to learn in a yeshiva in Eastern Europe since World War Two. Upon completion of his studies he received his rabbinic ordination from the Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu OB”M Rabbi Yitzchak Yaruslovsky, Chief Rabbi of Rabbinical Court, Israel, Rabbi Zelig Sharfstein OB”M Chief Rabbi Cincinnati, OH, Rabbi Dovid Schochet Chief Rabbi Toronto, OT, and Rabbi Chaim Schapiro, Morristown, NJ.