Dr. Annie Polland is the Executive Director of the American Jewish Historical Society. She was formerly the Vice President for Programs & Education at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, where she oversaw exhibits and interpretation. She is the co-author, with Daniel Soyer, of Emerging Metropolis: New York Jews in the Age of Immigration, winner of the 2012 Continue Reading »
Jon A. Levisohn is a professor of Jewish education at Brandeis University, where he directs the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education. An alumnus of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship program, he holds graduate degrees from Stanford University and a BA from Harvard College. He began his career as a teacher Continue Reading »
Rabbanit Dr. Michal Tikochinsky is one of the leading women Talmud scholars and educators in the world today, a sought after lecturer in Talmud, Jewish law and women’s issues. She holds a Master’s Degree in Law and a Doctorate in Talmud from Bar Ilan University. Through her scholarly and incisive articles Rabbanit Tikochinsky has had a profound Continue Reading »
A social and educational activist residing in Be’er Sheva, Rabbi Hagit Sabag Israel is part of the faculty of the Jewish Studies department in Ono Academic College. She facilitates study in batei midrash in the Kolot and Bina organizations and has established a number of batei midrash in development towns around Israel. Hagit serves as a consultant to different Continue Reading »
Rabbi Dr. Rani Jaeger is a research fellow, faculty member, and head of the recently formed Ritual Center at the Shalom Hartman Institute. He was one of the founders of the Institute’s Be’eri Program for Pluralistic Jewish-Israeli Identity Education. Rani received his doctorate at Bar-Ilan University on Jewish-Israeli culture as perceived by the poet Avraham Continue Reading »
Neta Polizer (Amitei Bronfman ’05) served as the Amitim Faculty & Manager of Fellowship Year Experience until 2021. Born and raised in a small communal settlement in the Galilee, Neta has extensive experience of more than a decade in the fields of experiential Jewish education and group facilitation. In addition to his work for Bronfman, Continue Reading »
Rabbi Hannah Kapnik Ashar (Bronfman ’04) is Director of Faculty at the Bronfman Fellowship. She is also the Founder and Director of Rahmana, a women’s prayer initiative. Hannah’s scholarship focuses on prayer practice and the poetry of liturgy, midrash (rabbinic exegesis), and feminine Torah of Yemima Avital and others. Hannah is a graduate of Hadar’s Continue Reading »
Rabbi Yehuda Sarna serves as the Executive Director of the Edgar M. Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life at NYU and as the University Chaplain at New York University. Originally from Montreal, Canada, he studied at Yeshiva University and received his ordination from RIETS. Yehuda co-founded the Of Many Institute for Multifaith Leadership at NYU, Continue Reading »
Dr. Evan Parks is a lecturer in the Core Curriculum and fellow of the Department of Germanic Languages at Columbia University, where he received his PhD in 2021. Evan’s research focuses on modern German literature and culture, the entanglement of German and Jewish intellectual traditions, and the relationship between literature, philosophy, and other art forms. Continue Reading »
Rabbi Dahlia Kronish is the Director of Jewish and Student Life at the Abraham Joshua Heschel School in New York City. Dahlia has been working at the Heschel High School for over ten years. At Heschel, in addition to overseeing programming and the student experience outside the classroom, Dahlia teaches Talmud, Jewish Ethics, and Tanach. Continue Reading »