ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal is a worldwide effort to fully embrace a contemporary egalitarian Judaism as a profound spiritual practice and social transformer, reaching beyond religious boundaries and institutional. Laura Duhan-Kaplan Or Shalom Synagogue. Women’s Studies Program, 1994-2000. Conference on Teaching Rabbinic Literature: Bridging Scholarship and Pedagogy. Presenters and Panelists. Charlotte Abramson (Jewish Theological Seminary)Joel A. ![]() ![]() Currently, the Aleph Institute Torah Studies program offers eight certificate courses, including. Talmud is the basis for all codes of rabbinic law and consists of discussions pertaining to Jewish law, ethics and customs. Alter (JCDS, Boston’s Jewish Community Day School, Watertown, MA)Yair Altshuler (Maimonides School, Brookline, MA)Sharon Cohen Anisfeld (Hebrew College Rabbinical School)Stephen Hazan Arnoff (1. Street Y of The Educational Alliance)Michael Balinsky (Florence Melton Adult Mini- School, Chicago)Mara Benjamin (Yale University)Jethro Berkman (Temple Aliyah, Needham, MA)Rahel Berkovits (Pardes Institute for Jewish Studies, Jerusalem)Beth Berkowitz (Jewish Theological Seminary)Jack Bieler (Kemp Mill Synagogue, Silver Spring, MD)Scott Bolton (Reuben Gittelman Hebrew Day School)Marc Z. Brettler (Brandeis University)Dan Brosgol (The Rashi School)Michael Chernick (HUC- JIR, New York)Shai Cherry (American Jewish University, LA)Aryeh Cohen (American Jewish University, LA)Rhonda Cohen (Hastings Public Schools, Hastings, NY)Shaye J. Cohen (Harvard University)Reuven Cohn (Maimonides School)Jacob Cytryn (Brandeis University)Gail Zaiman Dorph (Mandel Foundation)Yaron Eliav (University of Michigan)Ruth Satinover Fagen (Abraham Joshua Heschel School, NY)Sharon Feiman- Nemser (Brandeis University)Susan P. Fendrick (Brandeis University)Shawn Fields- Meyer (Milken Community High School)Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert (Stanford University)Steven Fraade (Yale University)Chaim Galfand (Perelman Jewish Day School)Michael Gillis (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)Elliot Goldberg (Chicagoland Jewish High School, IL)Elyse Goldstein (Kolel: the Adult Centre for Liberal Jewish Learning, Toronto, Canada)Jay Harris (Harvard University)Pinchas Hayman (Bonayich Educational Services)Nathaniel Helfgot (Yeshivat Chovevei Torah)Avital Campbell Hochstein (Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem)Elie Holzer (Bar Ilan University)Jane Kanarek (Hebrew College Rabbinical School)Lawrence Kaplan (Mc. Gill University)Elliot Kaplowitz (Brandeis University Hillel)Susan M. Kardos (Combined Jewish Philanthropies)Judith Kates (Hebrew College Rabbinical School)Alvan Kaunfer (Temple Emanu- El, Providence)Orit Kent (Brandeis University)Reuven Kimelman (Brandeis University)Aryeh Klapper (Gann Academy)David Kraemer (Jewish Theological Seminary)Yehuda Kurtzer (Harvard University)Jenny Labendz (Jewish Theological Seminary)Gail Labovitz (American Jewish University, LA)Ruth Langer (Boston College)Marjorie Lehman (Jewish Theological Seminary)Marcie Lenk (Harvard University)Dov Lerea (Abraham Joshua Heschel School, NY)Sarra Lev (Reconstructionist Rabbinical College)Judd Kruger Levingston (Perelman Jewish Day School)Jon A. Levisohn (Brandeis University)Ethan Linden (Camp Ramah of New England)Dov Linzer (Yeshivat Chovevei Torah)Shari L. Lowin (Stonehill College)Benjamin Mann (Solomon Schechter School of Manhattan)Claudia Marbach (JCDS, Boston’s Jewish Community Day School)Evyatar Marienberg (Jewish Theological Seminary)Vivie Mayer (Reconstructionist Rabbinical College)Karen G. Reiss Medwed (University of Pennsylvania)Joshua Moss (American Hebrew Academy)Robin Nafshi (Rimon: Collaborative Jewish Learning in Metro. West)Jack Nahmod (Beth Tfiloh Dahan High School, MD)George Nudell (Congregation Beth Israel, Scotch Plains, NJ)Michael Paley (UJA- Federation of NY)Aaron Panken (HUC- JIR, New York)Carl Perkins (Temple Aliyah, Needham, MA)Ellen Pildis (The Rashi School)Helen Plotkin (Swarthmore College)Daniel Reifman (Midreshet Lindenbaum)Gidon Rothstein (HAFTR, Long Island, NY)Jeffrey Rubenstein (New York University)Alieza Salzberg (Matan / Bar Ilan University)Benjamin Samuels (Congregation Shaarei Tefillah, Newton, MA)Michael Satlow (Brown University)Jeffrey Schein (Siegel College, Cleveland)Neal Scheindlin (Milken Community High School)Solomon Schimmel (Hebrew College)Lisa Schlaff (SAR High School, Riverdale, NY)Lee S. Shulman (Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching)Deena Sigel (University of London)Moriah Simon. Hazani (University of Pennsylvania)Shawn Simon. Hazani (Perelman Jewish Day School, Philadelphia)Alex Sinclair (Shalom Hartman Institute)Moshe Sokolow (Yeshiva University)Bradley Solmsen (Brandeis University)Jeffrey Spitzer (Gann Academy)David Starr (Hebrew College)Elana Stein (Columbia University)Jonah Chanan Steinberg (Hebrew College Rabbinical School)David Stern (University of Pennsylvania)Ethan Tucker (Mechon Hadar)Avraham Walfish (Herzog College, Alon Shvut, Israel)Dvora Weisberg (HUC- JIR, Los Angeles)Barry Wimpfheimer (Northwestern University)Elyse Winick (Koach, United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism)Lisa Karp Wurtele (Tehiyah Day School)Charlotte Abramson serves as the project director for The Jewish Day School Standards and Benchmarks Project, a project of the Melton Research Center for Jewish Education of the Jewish Theological Seminary. Prior to her current work, she served in several capacities in Jewish day school administration and as a teacher of Tanakh and Rabbinics. Alter serves as Rav Beit Ha. Rabbi Lipskar serves as Aleph’s Executive VP/Director. He oversees all aspects of the organization including: board and program development, finance and administration, fundraising, communications, and government relations. Milgrom points out also that the root of the Hebrew word 'ah, brother, is 'ahoh (aleph-het. Prior to joining the faculty of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies. Parsippany’s Debra Smith obtains Rabbinic ordination. During these five years she also obtained a master’s degree from Gratz College in Jewish Studies. Sefer and Assistant Head of School at JCDS, Boston’s Jewish Community Day School, where he also teaches rabbinics in the middle school. Trained as a rabbi and Jewish educator at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, he has previously served Washington's Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School and, as a member of the founding team, Baltimore's Shoshana S. He enjoyed several years of participation in the Hartman Institute's TICHON program, where he cultivated his interest in a theological and values- oriented approach toward Jewish texts. Yair Altshuler is the principal of the Middle and Upper Schools and head of the administrative team at Maimonides School in Brookline, MA. He received an M. A at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Prior to his current position, Rabbi Altshuler was a principal at Ohr Torah Ramot Yeshiva Middle School, and pedagogical instructor at the Lipshitz Academic College for Teacher Training in Jerusalem. His fields of expertise are formal and informal education, teacher education and Talmud teaching. Sharon Cohen Anisfeld is dean of the Rabbinical School at Hebrew College. She assumed this position 1- 1/2 years ago after working for 1. Jewish communities and pluralistic Jewish educational contexts. Previously a Hillel rabbi at Tufts, Yale, and Harvard, she is committed to bringing classical Jewish sources to bear on contemporary questions of personal meaning and social justice. Rabbi Cohen Anisfeld has served on the summer faculty of the Bronfman Youth Fellowships in Israel since 1. Passover, The Women's Passover Companion and The Women's Seder Sourcebook. She graduated from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in 1. Stephen Hazan Arnoff, Executive Director of the 1. Street Y of The Educational Alliance since October 2. Israel, Europe, and North America. He has served as Managing Editor of Zeek: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture, was a Jerusalem Fellow at the Mandel Leadership Institute, and is currently a doctoral candidate at the Jewish Theological Seminary in midrash. Rabbi Balinsky is a graduate of Yeshiva University, where he also received rabbinic ordination. She has spent many years studying Talmud in both traditional and academic frameworks at such institutions as Midreshet Lindenbaum, the Shalom Hartman Institute, and Hebrew University. Berkovits lectures widely on halakha and women’s ritual practice in both the US and Israel, and has published articles on the topic, most recently on the CD Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. Berman Hebrew Academy in Rockville, Maryland. He has been an administrator and Talmud teacher in day schools for over 3. He has written extensively on the philosophy of Modern Orthodox day school education. He has previously served as Head of School and in various administrative capacities at day schools, as well as instructor in Bible and Halakhah. He runs a Talmud and Visual Arts Commentaries project called Gemoranut, and he is launching Beit Midrash Tikkun, where text study and social action will be integrated. He was ordained at the Ziegler School of Rabbinical Studies. Brettler is the Dora Golding Professor of Biblical Studies and former chair of the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University. He has also taught in various adult Jewish education settings, including the Wexner Heritage Program, the innovative Me’ah program in Boston, and has served as scholar- in- residence for the Foundation for Jewish Studies in Washington DC. A graduate of Brandeis University, he has published and lectured widely on metaphor and the Bible, the nature of biblical historical texts, and gender issues and the Bible. Brettler is co- editor of the Jewish Study Bible, published by Oxford University Press in 2. National Jewish Book Award. The author and editor of numerous books, his most recent book is How to Read the Bible (Jewish Publication Society). He recently returned from a sabbatical teaching and researching in Israel, England, China, and Japan. He teaches eighth- grade Jewish Studies and the middle school Mishnah elective, leads tefilah for grades 1- 8, and coordinates all school- to- school Israel programming between Rashi and the Leo Baeck School in Haifa. He was previously the Associate Director of the Prozdor Hebrew High School at Hebrew College, where he still teaches three days a week. He has over a decade of experience in a variety of Jewish educational settings, including camp, day school, religious school, Israel trips, and other Jewish travel experiences. He is a graduate of Brandeis University, and received his Master's Degree in Jewish Education and Certificate in Day School Education from Hebrew College. He received his ordination and Ph. D in Talmud from Yeshiva University. He teaches in academic and adult Jewish educational programs, and he has published books and articles on rabbinic literature directed to the constituencies who study and teach in those settings.
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