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Rabbi Pinchas Allouche is the founding Rabbi of Congregation Beth Tefillah and the founding Dean and Spiritual Leader of the Nishmat Adin High School in Scottsdale, Arizona, where he resides with his wife, Esther, and ten children. He is a respected rabbinic figure, a renowned lecturer, and a prominent author of many essays on the Jewish faith, mysticism, and social-criticism.  Besides his academic pedigree, Rabbi Allouche is richly-cultural, having lived in France, where he was born, South Africa and Israel. He is also fluent in English, Hebrew, French and Italian. Rabbi Allouche is a member of AIPAC's National Council, and a member of the Vaad Harabanim, the Orthodox Rabbinic Council of Arizona.  Rabbi Allouche's wise, profound, and sensitive perspective on the world and its people, on life and living, is highly regarded and sought-after by communities and individuals of all backgrounds. Rabbi Allouche is also tremendously involved in the Jewish community of Greater Phoenix, and he teaches middle-school Judaics at Pardes Jewish Day School.  Rabbi Allouche is a blogger for many online publications, including the Huffington Post and The Times of Israel. Rabbi Allouche was listed in the Jewish Daily Forward as one of America's 36 Most Inspiring Rabbis, who are "shaping 21st Century Judaism."

Michelle Crincoli has almost two decades of classroom teaching and professional writing experience. She works closely with our Scottsdale students on day-to-day general studies assignments, executive functioning skills, and offers extra support to our students with learning disabilities. Michelle spent the 12 years prior at Shalhevet High School in Los Angeles. As the English Department Chair, Michelle has redesigned the curriculum to reflect a more writing-centered approach to learning literature. She currently teaches Creative Writing and Film, Literature and Composition. She is the student advisor for the Women's Luncheon, the book club and the literary magazine. Michelle is also a professional screenwriter and has won multiple awards for her original TV pilots and short films. In her personal time, she loves to read and spend time with her husband and her dog.

Avi Rosengard has been teaching and tutoring math since he was a high school student, starting with an internship at Phoenix Hebrew Academy working with struggling students in mathematics. He then went on to learn for a year and a half in Israel at Yeshivat Yesodei HaTorah.  With a knack for understanding mathematics and science in detail, Mr. Rosengard obtained his Masters of Science in Biomedical Engineering at ASU, where he excelled in several STEM classes involving advanced mathematics, coding, physics, mechanics, anatomy, and several other disciplines. Mr. Rosengard has several years' experience teaching math to students of varying abilities in both advanced and remedial math classes and to high school and upper-middle school students throughout Maricopa County. While teaching at these schools, Mr. Rosengard has undergone professional development in several math teaching styles and curricula, with an emphasis on the use of technology to enhance instruction. In his free time, Mr. Rosengard enjoys studying Jewish Philosophy and Halakhah, drawing with a computer program called Inkscape, learning new skills, and spending quality time with his family.

Rabbi Tzvi is originally from Melbourne, Australia.  He mastered Talmudic training at schools in London, Los Angeles and New York and obtained his Smicha (Rabbinic Ordination) at Rabbinical College of America. He previously  served as Assistant Rabbi of Chabad of the East Valley, where he further directed their camp, the Hebrew school and CTeen programming.  Rabbi Tzvi is the previous Judaics and Hebrew Director at Desert Jewish Academy and currently directs CTeen of Phoenix.  As a teacher, he is known for being attentive to each individual while teaching Jewish concepts and values in a fun, interactive way.  "I believe that in order to engage and inspire the next generation of youth, Judaism must be taught in a positive and exciting light. I enjoy using relevant contemporary concepts as a way of explaining timeless Jewish traditions."  Rabbi T, as the teens call him, loves to rap, play piano and will never say no to a game of soccer.