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 »
Yuval Nussan, a 2009 Amitei Bronfman alum, was raised in Hoshaya in the Galilee. In his gap year he volunteered at the Tzameret NGO, before studying at Har Etzion Yeshiva. Yuval served in the IDF combat forces as a commander. He has a Master’s degree in Hebrew Literature from Hebrew University as part of the 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 »
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 »
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 »