Devora Bengualid Goldstein is excited to join The Bronfman Fellowship as a Mancha this year. Raised in a Modern Orthodox family in New York with Moroccan and Canadian roots, she now calls Tel Aviv home. Devora studied Neuroscience and Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago, where she explored the intersections of science, ethics, and Continue Reading »
Yahel Halevi (Amitei Bronfman ’17), originally from Tel Aviv, is a BA student at the Glasgow School of Art. After completing the Hevruta gap year program in Jerusalem and participating in a queer leadership program by IGY, the Israeli queer youth movement, he worked as a counselor at Ramah Nyack. He then served in the Continue Reading »
Dr. Yitz Landes (Bronfman ‘05; he/him) is an Assistant Professor of Rabbinic Literatures and Cultures at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. His research focuses on the premodern transmission of Jewish knowledge, vis-à-vis the history of rabbinic education and the history of the Jewish book. Additionally, Dr. Landes works on the development of Jewish ritual Continue Reading »
Marisa Scheinfeld was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1980 and raised in the Catskills. She received her B.A. from the State University at Albany in 2002, and her MFA from San Diego State University in 2011. Her work is motivated by an interest in landscape and its embedded histories, both apparent and hidden. Marisa’s photographic projects Continue Reading »
Joshua Meyer (Bronfman ’91) is known for his thickly layered paintings of people, and for a searching, open-ended process. The Cambridge, Massachusetts artist studied art at Yale University and The Bezalel Academy, and has exhibited in galleries and museums internationally. Meyer has been recognized with a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, a CJP Arts and Culture Impact Award, The Sustainable Continue Reading »
Anat Keinan (born in Jerusalem, Israel) is a multidisciplinary artist currently based in Brooklyn. She graduated with an honor BFA from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Israel (2017), and completed an MFA in Sculpture at Yale School of Art (2023). Her work has been exhibited at various galleries, museums, and art spaces, including The Israel Continue Reading »
Zurit Buskila leads the Kolot Beit Midrash and teaches Jewish Studies at Ono Academic College. She has been active in the social and spiritual spheres in Israel for many years, facilitating group and writing workshops. Previously, she lived and worked in the Negev, teaching at the Bina and Daroma southern Midrashot. She founded and led 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 »
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 »
Rabbi Hannah Kapnik Ashar (Bronfman ’04) is the Founder and Director of Rahmana, a women’s community of spiritual practice. 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 Advanced Kollel and an alumna of the Wexner Continue Reading »