Yonatan Neril earned his MA at Stanford University with a focus on global environmental issues and was ordained in Israel. He developed educational materials for the Jewish environmental organization Canfei Nesharim. Rabbi Neril is founder and director of the...
Dr. Shimshon Hamerman is Head of School of Solomon Schechter Academy in Montreal, Canada. A brief background The expression Tikkun olam sounds almost poetic and it is not surprising that it was so universally accepted and adopted by Federations and fund raising...
Levi Cooper teaches at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies and is a rabbi in Tzur Hadassah. He is currently a post-doctoral fellow in Bar-Ilan University's Faculty of Law. Rabbi Dr Cooper is a contributing editor to Jewish Educational Leadership. 1. What does...
Barry Kornblau serves as rabbi of Young Israel of Hollis Hills – Windsor Park in Queens, NY and as Director of Member Services at the Rabbinical Council of America. Following the devastation of Hurricane Sandy, Barry Kornblau penned the following reflections which...
Yaakov (Gerald) Blidstein is Professor Emeritus in the Goren Goldstein Department of Jewish Thought at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He has written extensively on the legal thought of Maimonides and the relationship between law and ethics in Jewish law and is...
Judy Sokolow, Ed.D. currently serves as Educational Director of Student Programming at the Ramaz Middle School in Manhattan, where she also teaches a course in the history of Zionism and Israel. It is a tremendous achievement that, as indicated by our data and...
Adam Berman served as the Rabbinic Intern in Yeshiva University’s Center for the Jewish Future, where he developed an innovative Jewish learning curriculum for the university’s service-learning programs. He is currently studying medicine. Shuki Taylor is the director...
Ira Bedzow is a PhD student at Emory University and is the author of Halakhic Man, Authentic Jew: Modern Expressions of Orthodox Thought, a comparative study of Rabbis Soloveitchik and Berkovits. Ira Bedzow proposes a dramatic idea seeking to address ecological and...
In addition to directing and teaching the Social Justice Track at Pardes, Dr. Meesh Hammer-Kossoy teaches Talmud and is the Director of Admissions. Pardes Institute for Jewish Studies is a co-educational bet midrash dedicated to teaching Torah to Jews from across the...
I have never met a parent who wasn’t thrilled at their baby’s first steps or first words. I have also never met a parent who wasn’t terrified the first time their child walked to school by herself, rode a bicycle to a friend’s house, or took the car for the first...
