Rabbi Yaakov Singer grew up in San Jose, CA, earned his B.A. in Mathematics and his M.Sc. in Operations Research from Northwestern University. While studying in Israel, he received his Rabbinic Ordination from Yeshivat Aish HaTorah under Rabbi Yitzchak Berkowitz. Rabbi Singer established the first “Aish on Campus” center at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the originator of the Power UP Seminar, a leadership workshop which imparts to teachers and lay people a model for building leaders and disseminating wisdom. Rabbi Singer currently teaches at Yeshivat Ohr Moshe in Ramat Beit Shemesh, Israel and lives with his wife and four children overlooking the Dead Sea. He can be reached at singer.yaakov@gmail.com.