Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Hurwitz (Yitzi) was born and raised in Crown Heights Brooklyn. He graduated the Rabbinical College of America in 1994. In 1996 he married Nechama Dina (nee Berkowitz). In 1998 the young couple heeded their life's calling and decided to dedicate themselves to building a Jewish community in Temecula Valley in Riverside County, California. Over the next 14 years, through sweat and tears they managed to create a beautiful Jewish environment for the Jews of Temecula. During this period they also became the parents of seven beautiful children: Fruma, Moshe, Eliyahu Chaim, Mendel, Chava, Chaya and Sholom.