Ilana Kurshan (BYFI ’95) is an alumna of the program. Ilana graduated from Harvard. After college, she spent a year in England studying British Romantic poetry at Cambridge and has been working in book publishing for the last eight years, first at Random House in New York. Ilana moved to Israel and began her current Continue Reading »
Rabbi Claudia Kreiman was born and raised in Santiago de Chile. After spending many years in Israel, during which she received her ordination from Machon Shechter, the Conservative movement’s Rabbinical School, and served as the Rabbi of Camp Ramah Noam in Israel, she now lives in Boston, and is the Associate Rabbi at Temple Beth Continue Reading »
Dr. Jelen, a 1987 Bronfman Fellow, is an assistant professor of English and Jewish Studies. Her field of specialization is modern Jewish literature and she teaches courses on American Jewish Literature, The Literature of the Holocaust, Modern Hebrew Literature, Gender and Jewish Literaure, as well as an Introduction to Jewish Literature. She is currently a Continue Reading »
Rabbi James Diamond z”l first joined the BYFI faculty in 1997, and was an active part of the community until his passing in 2013. Jim was Executive Director at Princeton University’s Center for Jewish Life (Hillel) and served as a consultant to Hillel’s Schusterman International Center.
Rabbi Dianne Cohler-Esses is the Director of Life Long Learning at Romemu and is an educator and former Co-Director of the Bronfman Fellowship. She was the first woman from the Syrian Jewish community to be ordained as a Rabbi. She graduated from the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1995, where she was awarded several fellowships and Continue Reading »
Shiran is originally from Degania Bet. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Jewish Studies and is finishing up his Master’s in Hebrew Linguistics. Shiran teaches in “Beit Chinuch” in Jerusalem and at the Rothberg International School at Hebrew University. In the past four years, he has guided groups of teens, soldiers, police officers and teachers Continue Reading »
Hadas has a B.A. in Jewish Studies and an M.A. in Hebrew Literature, and is originally from Kfar- Saba. She served as the Jewish Agency’s shlicha (emissary) in Australia where she ran various programs. She participated in the summer seminar of the Tikvah Fund for Jewish leadership at Princeton University and is now a fellow Continue Reading »
Judith Rosenbaum (’90) is an educator, historian, and writer. She is Executive Director of the Jewish Women’s Archive, where she also served as Director of Public History for many years. A scholar of Jewish studies and women’s studies and recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, Judith holds a BA in History from Yale University and a Continue Reading »
Rabbi Or Rose – Rabbi, writer and social activist, Or Rose is the founding director of the Center for Global Judaism at Boston’s Hebrew College, which provides educational programming and resources on issues of contemporary Jewish spirituality, Israel-Diaspora relations, religious pluralism and environmental responsibility. Originally from Winnipeg, Canada, his father a rabbi and mother a Continue Reading »
Rabbi Laura Geller is a Senior Rabbi of Temple Emanuel in Beverly Hills, California. She was among the first women to be selected to lead a major metropolitan synagogue. Prior to being chosen for this position in 1994, she served as the Executive Director of the American Jewish Congress, Pacific Southwest Region. Among her accomplishments Continue Reading »