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 »
Tal Toren (Amitei Bronfman ‘15) currently studies Sociology, Anthropology and International Relations at Hebrew University. She lives in Jerusalem, where she works in the national public diplomacy directorate; and is part of Bar Kaima, an environmental organization based on Jewish values. Tal was born in a kibbutz in the north of Israel and studied theater Continue Reading »
Jonathan Marc Gribetz (Bronfman ’97) is an associate professor in the Near Eastern Studies Department and the Program in Judaic Studies at Princeton University. He teaches about Palestine, Israel, the city of Jerusalem, and Jewish and Palestinian nationalisms, and also serves as director of Princeton’s Near Eastern Studies Program and of the Institute for the Continue Reading »
Rafi Ellenson (Bronfman ’11; he/his/him) is a student at the Hebrew College Rabbinical School. Prior to rabbinical school he lived in Jerusalem working for the Hotline for Refugees and Migrants and for 0202: Points of View from Jerusalem. While in Jerusalem, he was awarded the Dorot Fellowship where he studied literary translation. In rabbinical school, 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 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 »