Koret Center for Jewish Civilization
Jewish Peoplehood Global Conference
27 & 28 April
Anu - Museum of the Jewish People, Tel Aviv University Campus
Koret Center for Jewish Civilization
Jewish Peoplehood Global Conference
27 & 28 April
Anu - Museum of the Jewish People, Tel Aviv University Campus
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
The newly established Koret Center for Jewish Civilization will hold its first two-day conference with the goal of bringing together visionary global players in the Education, academic and leadership sectors in the field of Jewish Peoplehood to jointly explore the extraordinary challenges facing the Jewish People.
Unlike any other institution in field, this academic-educational conference on Jewish Peoplehood will offer a unique and innovative ideation space for Israelis and Jewish people from around the world to come together.
This year’s conference comes at a one of the most critical moments of tension facing Israel and the Jewish people. This is precisely the time to fortify the concept of Jewish peoplehood and propel its methodologies. The Koret Center’s conference will act as a launchpad for cross-pollination between academia, education, and leadership. It will work toward offering ground breaking solutions for some of our core issues.
Schedule
THE PARTICPANTS
Education Track
Nic Abery
PaJeS/UnitEd/EFI | uk
Nic describes herself as an Educational Strategic Agitator and works extensively across the British and European Jewish world with schools and communities to create and formulate sustainable change. Her most recent endeavour is in the overseeing and creation of The Israel75 Project: Building Artistic Connections enabling hundreds of children the opportunity to explore and creatively reflect on the cultural, historic and artistic narratives of Israel.
Roberta Alexandr Sundfeld
Jewish Museum of São Paulo | Brazil
Historian, researcher, and curator of museums, cultural projects, and exhibitions. Director of the Jewish Museum of So Paulo’s project Collections and Memory. Founding partner of Sundfeld Cultural Office since 1997, working with corporate memories, people and products, and conducting research. Worked as a director on the Jewish Museum of Sao Paulo’s project since 2000, assisting in the architectural jury, selecting the museum, museography, educational company, and accompanying public approvals.
Nitzan Ben Shaya
BBYO| Israel
Nitzan Ben Shaya is BBYO’s Area Director in Israel, Africa, and the Middle East. Nitzan returned to Israel after three years in Washington DC, where she served as the Maccabi World Union Central Shlicha at BBYO International. She also studied abroad as part of the European Union’s Erasmus+ program at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. Nitzan completed a two-year internship at the Member of Knesset Omer Bar-Lev office in Jerusalem.
David Bryfman
The Jewish Education Project | US
Dr. David Bryfman is the CEO of The Jewish Education Project. David has authored several articles and presented broadly on topics ranging from the Jewish teenage experience, innovation and change in Jewish life and Israel education. He is a founder of the annual Jewish Futures conference, helped direct the 2019 study GenZ Now: Understanding and Connecting with Jewish Teens Today, and was the lead researcher of the 2016 study, “Generation Now: Understanding and Engaging Jewish Teenagers Today”.
Yonatan Dobov
Herzog Center | Moldova
Yonatan Dubov is the CEO of the Yaakov Herzog Center. He was the Founder and artistic director of the Center for Jewish Culture, a Media man and publicist, with a radio program on Gali Israel and writes a regular article in the newspaper. He served as the former chairman of the Jewish Home Party, and the party’s candidate for the Knesset. He was a Founder of the Million Lobby – for the advancement of the needs of Russian-speaking Israelis, and active in the field of Jewish-Russian identity.
Osnat Fox
The Jewish Agency for Israel | Israel
Osnat Fox is the Director of Makom’s Institute for Global Jewish Voices, where she leads educational efforts to connect Israelis with global Jewry and promote a sense of peoplehood. In this role, she provides training for school principals and lead teaching teams, as well as youth movements and gap year programs. As a senior educator at Makom, Osnat collaborates with diverse educators and communities to explore innovative pedagogies. Osnat has extensive experience in community engagement and education, both inside and outside of Israel.
Assaf Gamzou
UnitEd | Israel
Director of Education, UnitEd Prior to joining UnitEd, Assaf served as the first director of Jewish renewal Division at the Ministry of Diaspora Affairs. He served as curator of the Israeli Cartoon Museum, where he curated international and local exhibitions on editorial cartoons, comics and graphic novels. He has taught courses on Jewish Education, Museum Pedagogy and Philosophy of Education at Tel-Aviv University, Shenkar College of Design and Seminar HaKybutsim Teachers’ College.
Craig Kacev
Pincus Fund Israel | Israel
As Director of Education for the Pincus Fund, Craig is responsible for the development and educational oversight of projects supported by the Pincus Fund worldwide. Prior to that role Craig was the Director of the South African Board of Jewish Education and the King David Schools, Johannesburg. Also, he served as the Director of Education for UnitEd, a project serving Jewish day schools around the globe. Craig has Rabbinic Ordination and served as community Rabbi for over 15 years in South Africa.
David Levin-Kruss
Yesod Europe | Israel
“Judaism is technology that makes the world better,” says David Levin-Kruss, Jewish Learning Director for Yesod-Europe, which works with professionals to sustain and strengthen Jewish communities. David loves text-life interplay. He also works for JDC. Prior to this, David taught at Pardes, was overseas director for Melitz and community director of Stanmore Synagogue.
Ron Merkel
Anu - Museum of the Jewish people | Israel
Ron is the head of the Department of Israeli Education at ANU – The Museum of The Jewish People, which leads the museum’s efforts to develop educational content addressing the changing needs of the museum’s diverse individual and group visitors.. Ron strongly believes that the gift offered by the museum – telling a valuable story through the use of visual and other aesthetic means – is a wonderful way to touch people’s hearts.
Alon More
Shalom Hartman Institute | Israel
Alon More is Director of Be’eri program at the Shalom Hartman Institute. Prior to becoming Director, he served as Be’eri’s Director of Informal Education. He is a facilitator in several leadership programs advancing Jewish pluralism and tolerance in Israeli society, including the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco’s Gvanim program and Gesharim. Alon is also a Beit Midrash for Israeli Rabbis Fellow.
Kate Noam
UJA Federation of Greater Toronto | Canada
Since 2011, Kate Noam has been dedicated to working with Russian speaking Jewry in Diaspora. Kate has served as a Jewish summer camp program director, facilitated leadership seminars, and built an engagement platform for families and youth to be involved in Toronto Jewish community life. Kate Noam has brought to Toronto such RSJ initiatives such as Limmud FSU, student leadership programs and volunteer engagement. Kate holds MA in Political and Strategic studies from IDC Herzliya.
Ruben Shimonov
American Sephardi Federation | US
Ruben is an educator, community builder, and social entrepreneur passionate about Jewish diversity and intercultural understanding. He is the National Director of the American Sephardi Federation’s Sephardi House initiative. He previously served as Director of Community Engagement & Education at Queens College Hillel, as well as the Director of Educational Experiences & Programming for the Muslim-Jewish Solidarity Committee. He is also the Founding Executive Director of the Sephardic Mizrahi Q Network
Shuki Taylor
M²: The Institute for Experiential Jewish Education | Israel
Shuki is the founder and CEO of M²: The Institute for Experiential Jewish Education, which provides educators and organizations with knowledge, tools, and skills to advance the theory and practice of experiential Jewish education. Shuki studied Jewish philosophy, education and scriptwriting. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife Natalie and their four children.
Nataliya Tolok
Hillel Lviv | Ukraine
I was born and have always lived in Lviv, western part of Ukraine. I have been the head of the Jewish youth organization “Hillel” since 2018. For the last ten years I organized a number of projects directed to the preservation of Jewish historical and cultural heritage of our region. For fifteen years already, I am an active participant of our community dance group “Jewish miniatures” and since 2019 I have been studying and teaching traditional stetle Jewish dance.
Michal Weiss
ANU-Museum of the Jewish People | Israel
Michal is the director of the International Programs Departments in Koret International School for Jewish Peoplehood Studies, based at ANU – Museum of the Jewish People. She has been working in a variety of positions and organizations in the Jewish world for the past 20 years. I worked in the Jewish Agency for Israel, Hillel, IAC and more.
THE PARTICPANTS
Leadership Track
Samuel Brygel
Zionist Federation Australia | Israel
Samuel (Sammy) is currently studying at David Shapell College of Jewish Studies/Yeshiva Darche Noam in Jerusalem, after being awarded a studentship with Mount Scopus Memorial College, where he worked as a Jewish Studies teacher since 2020. Prior to teaching, Sammy was employed as a Youth and Programs Director at Caulfield Hebrew Congregation and received Rabbinical Ordination from Machon Smicha in January 2021.
Sharon Buenos
Zikaron BaSalon | Israel
Sharon has represented the Ministry of Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption as Director of the Israeli House in the UK. Following her role at the embassy, Sharon worked with the Senior Rabbi of the Sephardi community in the UK as Director of Programming and Marketing. Today Sharon is the Global Director of Zikaron BaSalon, a social initiative commemorating the Holocaust.
Colin Bulka
Yesod Europe | Israel
Colin works for Yesod Europe as the Programme Director, working with European Jewish community professionals, and helping support them with their professional development.
Aviva Klompas
Boundless | US
Aviva Klompas is co-founder of Boundless, a nonprofit reimaging Israel education across North America. Before leaping into social entrepreneurship, Aviva served as the Director of Speechwriting for Israel’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York City, as Associate Vice President of Israel and Global Jewish Citizenship at Combined Jewish Philanthropies, and as a Senior Policy Advisor in the Ontario Government supporting efforts to resettle Syrian refugees in Canada.
Alon Kuba
Israel Scouts | Israel
For the past 8 years the head of Garin Tzabar Lone Soldiers framework, working with Jewish communities for almost 20 years. Belive in the non-formal educational opportunities with youth and young adults.
Scott Lasensky
Tthe Jewish Peoplehood Alliance |US
Dr. Scott Lasensky is a Senior Advisor to ENTER: The Jewish Peoplehood Alliance. He holds a Ph.D. in international relations from Brandeis University. Scott served in the Obama Administration (2011-2017) as an advisor on Israel, the Mideast and Jewish Affairs, including serving in Israel. He is co-author of The Peace Puzzle: America’s Quest for Arab Israeli Peace. Scott is author most recently of “Fate, Peoplehood and Alliances,” a short history of American Jewry and Israel.
Mikhai Libkin
ORT Russia | Russia
Mikhai Libkin is the Director of ORT Russia and co-chair of the Moscow Jewish Film Festival.
Hadas Nir
Diller Teen Fellows | Israel
Hadas is the Senior Fellowship Program for Diller Teen Fellows, overseas the program globally. Hadas has been a member of the Diller Teen Fellows staff since 2011 in different roles. In former roles, Hadas was the training consultant for Shatil, and held different educational positions. She is a certified group workshop facilitator in Jewish Renewal, from the Oranim College, has a M.A. in Organizational studies from the Tel Aviv University, and a B.A in Management and Media.
Ale Okret
The Shapiro Foundation | UK
Beri Rozenberg
ROI Community / Schusterman Family Philanthropies | Israel
Beri is the Director of ROI Community, where he implementing strategies to support ROI’s global network of Jewish change agents who seek to create a profound impact. Before that, Beri was the director of Dibur Acher, a collective that aims to promote partnerships within Israeli society through social media. Beri co-founded the Cultural Brigade, a group of young Russian speaking Israelis who are devoted to seamlessly integrating the culture and history of FSU Jews into Israeli society.
Rivka Sade
Gidomim | Israel
Rivka sade is a 40-year-old mother of three living in the desert. She is currently the head of the leadership program – Gideonim which is intended for managers of social and educational organizations.
Zina Segal
Moishe House | Israel
Zina is The Moishe House’s Sr. Director, and as a member of the Program Leadership Team, she oversees all global Jewish Education programming at Moishe House. In this unique position, Zina focuses on building upon and leading the Moishe House vision to enhance the young adult Jewish experience. She is inspired by our goal to help young adults shape their Jewish identity to become responsible members of their Jewish communities.
Tiferet Solomon-Sadan
Momentum | Israel
Tiferet Solomon-Sadan, Director of Momentum Israel. Prior to working in this position worked in varied private high-tech positions, with vast experience in the Israeli business ecosystems. She was formerly the CEO of The Blender HAC Innovation and Entrepreneurship center. She was the Business Partner to the CEO and Content Manager at Wisio. Served as VP of Business Development at an innovative BioMed hardware & software company, and was Program Director of the Executive Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program in the Jerusalem School of Business Administration, at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Elmira Tarivierdiieva
Hillel Deutschland | Germany
Elmira is originally from Odessa, Ukraine. Passionate about cultural diplomacy, art, and people. In 2019, Elmira joined the Jewish Diplomatic Corps of the World Jewish Congress, where she is working on a project on unity and inclusion in Jewish communities, particularly with regards to gender diversity. Elmira is currently a Director of Leadership Programs at Hillel Deutschland, where she works on developing programs to empower people to act and lead.
Adam Teitelbaum
Jewish Federations of North America | US
Adam Teitelbaum currently serves as the Executive Director of the Israel Action Network and the Associate Vice President for Public Affairs at The Jewish Federations of North America. Adam has been leading pro-Israel activism for more than a decade, most recently serving as AIPAC’s Leadership Development Director where he was responsible for the strategic positioning of high school and college students in pro-Israel politics. Adam is also a member of the fourth cohort of the Schusterman Fellowship.
Shira Zik
Gesher| Israel
Shira Sherez-Zik is the Founder and Director of the Gesher Leadership Institute since 2013. She is a social activist in Jerusalem and a member of the board of directors of the “Rashut Harabim” forum, which promotes Jewish renewal in Jerusalem. Shira is responsible for the vision and management of the Gesher Leadership Institute and all of its programming and staff. Shira lives in Jerusalem with her husband and four children.
THE PARTICPANTS
Tisch Track
Netta Asner-Minster
WZO | Israel
Netta Asner-Minster is the North American Advisor of the Diaspora department in the World Zionist Organization. Netta was born in Maryland and made Aliyah with her family in 2004. She spent the last three years as an Israeli emissary in Maryland. Netta has a BA in Jewish history and International Relations and is currently pursuing her MA in Jewish Education. She lives currently in Jerusalem, with her husband and daughter.
Shimrit Ben Arosh
Knesset | Israel
My name is Shimrit and I am a 42 years old mother of 6 kids. Earning a law degree while working at the Office of the Speaker of the Knesset.
Reuben Berman
Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations | US
Reuben Berman is the Program Manager of the Antisemitism Task Force at the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, where he had previously served as the Executive Assistant to the COP’s. Prior to his work at the Conference of Presidents, Reuben was a Fellow and Research Associate at The Reut Institute, a think tank in Tel Aviv, where he was a core member of Reut’s Delegitimization Team, helped to run Firewall: A Delegitimization Hackathon, and was a founding member of Reut’s Nation-State team.
Tuvia Chertok
Diaspora Ministry | Israel
Sam Cohen
JCC Association of North America | US
Sam serves as Senior Vice President, Program and Talent at JCC Association of North America. Her portfolio includes the honor of spearheading the JCC Maccabi program continentally in addition to working with 170 JCCs across North America, leading a variety of initiatives in pursuit of her passion- ensuring a strong Jewish future through building Jewish pride, peoplehood, and connection to Israel.
Kfir Choen
Sport and Culture Ministry | Israel
Roei Eisenberg
Jewish Federation of Greater LA | US
Roei Eisenberg is an Israeli-American consultant and community builder living in Los Angeles. He founded Bayit Consulting to facilitate greater mutual understanding between the two centers of modern Jewish life. He previously lived in Tel Aviv, where he was a senior editor at Ynetnews. He serves on the steering committee for the Jewish Federation of LA’s New Leaders Project, the first-year leadership team of JFNA’s National Young Leadership Cabinet and as LA vice chair of IPF Atid.
Tali Elbaz
Foreign Ministry | Israel
Tali Elbaz is a senior advisor to Foreign Minister Eli Cohen. She is a lawyer by profession, and deputy chair of the Knesset and Legislation Committee at the Israel Bar Association. Elbaz is a former project manager at a cyber company. She is married to Netanel and mother to Ella and Ariel.
Haim Goren
Tel Aviv Yafo municipality | Israel
41 years old, married and father of five children, lives in south Tel Aviv. Teacher by profession, deputy and acting mayor of Tel Aviv-Yafo, chairman of the “Believers” faction
Gili Haushner
Leader of the Opposition | Israel
Gili Haushner is Chief of Staff to Leader of the Opposition and Chairperson of Yesh Atid, Yair Lapid. She has served in this role for the last 11 years including during his tenure as Foreign Minister and Prime Minister. Gili has extensive experience in the political, legislative and diplomatic arena.
Rabbi Jason
Herman | US
Rabbi Jason serves as the Mara D’atra, spiritual leader of the Hudson Yards Synagogue in New York City. Rabbi Herman also serves as the Executive Director of the International Rabbinic Fellowship, a professional organization of over 250 Orthodox Rabbis, Clergy and Spiritual Leaders across the United States and around the world. He is also the founder and president of the Israel Academic Institute, an organization seeking to promote Israeli academia in the United States.
Evan Hochberg
Jewish Federations of North America | Israel
Evan Hochberg is Associate Vice President and Deputy Director for Israel and Overseas of The Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA). Where he focuses on building a stronger and more dynamic relationship between Federations, Israel, and Jewish communities overseas. Evan previously served as the Chief Operating Officer for the World Jewish Restitution Organization. As the lead professional, he led negotiations for the restitution of Holocaust-era assets in over 15 countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
Andrew Keene
World Union for Progressive Judaism | US
Andrew Keene lives in Washington, DC and is originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin where he was very active in the Reform Jewish Youth Movement, NFTY, ultimately serving as North American President. Andrew currently serves as Vice Chair of the World Union for Progressive Judaism (WUPJ), the global network of reform, progressive, liberal, and reconstructionist Jewish communities. Andrew serves as Deputy Chair of Shlichut for the Jewish Agency Board of Governors.
Yuval Laster
Kenesset | Isreal
Danya Leshed
Office of the President of The State of Israel | Isreal
For nearly 7 years Danya has been serving as President Isaac Herzog’s close advisor. She was first introduced to his work as a young volunteer and soon after as his Knesset’s parliamentary advisor, later as an advisor to the Chairman of the Jewish Agency and currently as an advisor for Jewish World Affairs for the President of the State of Israel. Prior to her current role, Danya worked as an assistant lobbyist in a leading private firm, representing companies and non-profits in the health and welfare fields.
Yom Tov Raanan
Diaspora Ministry| Israel
Shanie Reichman
Israel Policy Forum | US
Shanie Reichman is the director of IPF Atid, the young professionals initiative of Israel Policy Forum. She serves as the co-chair of the U.S. Committee of Forum Dvorah and on the advisory council for the Center for Ethnic, Racial, and Religious Understanding. Her work has been published in the Forward, the Jerusalem Post, the Times of Israel, Hey Alma, and International Policy Digest.
Benjamin Rogers
American Jewish Committee | US
Benjamin Rogers is the Director for Middle East and North Africa Initiatives with the American Jewish Committee’s Department of Policy and Diplomatic Affairs. He supports AJC’s diplomatic outreach, policymaking, and Middle East advocacy. His work regularly takes him to countries across the Arab world, where he cultivates relationships with various leaders. Benjy represents AJC worldwide in private briefings with foreign ministries, congressional leaders, and universities.
Tom Sagiv
MK Benny Gantz Office | Isreal
Tom is currently the Foreign Relations Advisor to former Defense Minister MK Benny Gantz. Born to an Israeli father & British mother and growing up abroad over a decade between Mexico, Finland, Greece & Israel, Tom speaks four languages. After completing a five-year military service as a commander & officer in various diplomatic & intelligence units in the IDF working with the United Nations & US Special Forces, Tom is an avid advocate of Israel internationally.
Josh Satok
UJA-Federation Of New York | US
Josh Satok is a Senior Planning Executive in the Jewish Life department at UJA-Federation of New York, where he oversees grantmaking in a wide variety of areas in the New York area, including immersive Jewish experiences, social justice, diversity, and and anti-semitism. He has previously worked for UJA Toronto and the Jewish Federations of North America, and has spent many years in world of Jewish education, including as the Senior Assistant Director of URJ Kutz Camp.
Zachary Schaffer
Project Shema | US
Zachary Schaffer is a Co-Founder of Project Shema, a training and support organization built by progressives to help our Jewish community challenge anti-Jewish ideas and nurture compassion for Jews on the progressive left, especially within Israel-Palestine discourse. He is the President of Friends of Roots, a grassroots coexistence movement of Israelis and Palestinians in the West Bank. He also serves on the North American Board of the Union for Reform Judaism.
Tema Smith
ADL | Canada
Tema Smith is a writer, educator, advocate and community building whose work centers on antisemitism prevention and antiracism. She currently serves as the Director of Jewish Outreach & Partnerships at ADL, where she leads the agency’s work in partnering with Jewish organizations across the United States to fight back against antisemitism and all forms of hate. She serves on the Board of Trustees at the Union for Reform Judaism and as the interim board chair for Ammud: The Jews of Color Torah Academy.
Yaakov Stern
Knesset | Israel
Yaakov Stern is a lawyer and member of the Givatayim City Council where he holds the social services portfolio. He serves as the chief of staff to the chairman of the Knesset Health Committee.
Deborah Touaty
Ministry of Diaspora| Israel
Adviser to the minister of Diaspora Affairs since 2020, lives in Jerusalem.
Melissa Weiss
Jewish Insider | Israel
Melissa Weiss is the executive editor of Jewish Insider. Prior to joining JI in August 2019, she spent nearly a decade working in strategic communications in the nonprofit sector. Following stints in Seoul, Washington, D.C., New York and Mexico City, she currently lives in Tel Aviv. Melissa is a graduate of the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism with a BA in journalism and a minor in Eastern European history.
Netta Zahavy Harlap
Ministry of Defence | Isreal
THE PARTICPANTS
Academia Track
Achinoam Aldouby
TAU / UC Berkeley | US
Achinoam Aldouby is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Theatre Arts at Tel Aviv University. Her research focuses on the theatrical adaptation of canonical texts and historical events, as a means of exploring aspects of collective memory and identity formation. In addition to her academic research, Aldouby possesses extensive experience as a leading educator and active practitioner in various educational organizations and cultural projects in both Israel and the US.
Dan Arbib
Independent scholar france | France
Dan arbib, born in 1982, teaches philosophy at the ENS (Paris). A specialist in Descartes and Levinas, he is also the French translator of Spinoza.
Ofer Chizik
Yediot Aharonot / University of Haifa | Israel
Ofer is a scholar, journalist, and activist, dealing with the history of the Israeli reform movement, clashes of Church and state in the young state of Israel, and the relations between Orthodox and Reform Judaism. Ofer is an editor at the news and foreign desk for the Israeli newspaper “Yediot Aharonot”. Ofer is a winner of two GLZ Radio awards for excellent journalism. Today, Ofer is also a rabbinic student at the Israeli Rabbinic program at HUC Jerusalem.
Eugene D. Matanky
Tel Aviv University | Israel
Eugene D. Matanky is a doctoral candidate at Tel Aviv University. His doctorate, entitled “Esoteric Labor: A Material Reception of Cordoverean Kabbalah,” explores the different labors—material, intellectual-cultural, and hermeneutical—involved in forming Cordoverean Kabbalah. This research touches upon issues of manuscript and print culture, the sociology and transmission of knowledge, hermeneutical reception, and processes of canonization.
Tomer Danziger
Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Herzog Academic College | Israel
Tomer Danziger is a PhD student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research topics include Religious Bible Teachers and their Students in the State High School: Identities, Faith Dilemmas, and their Influence on Teaching Methods. He is a lecturer in Education at Herzog Academic College and is a teacher of the Bible, citizenship, and Jewish philosophy at the high school for Jerusalem.
Esther Friedman
Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Canada
Esther Friedman integrates research and practice in Jewish education, having completed her Ph.D. in Jewish Education at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and in her current position at Tanenbaum CHAT in Toronto, where she serves as a Tanakh instructor. Esther has been involved in Bible education in multiple contexts for close to three decades, as an instructor, curriculum designer, department chair, and professional development provider, with a focus on middle school and high school.
Misgav Har-Peled
independent scholar | Isreal
I am an Historian of Religion at Johns Hopkins University. Previously, I worked extensively on the prohibition of pork in Judaism and its perception by non-Jews. Currently I am working on two projects: The history of existential dread in Judaism and on Rabbinical polemical dialogism at the End of Antiquity.
Ayal Hayut-man
Tel Aviv University | Isreal
PhD student in Jewish Philosophy at Tel Aviv University, literary critic and writer
Einat Nativ
Tel Aviv University | Israel
I am a PhD student in the department of Hebrew Language at Tel Aviv University. My research topic is “linguistic features in the writing of high school students in special classes for low SES students”. In addition, I am a high school Hebrew teacher and an educational consultant.
Matan Oren
TAU | Isreal
PhD candidate, Department of Bible at Tel Aviv University.
Yoav Schaefer
Princeton University | US
Yoav Schaefer is a doctoral candidate at Princeton University’s Department of Religion. His research interests include philosophy, European intellectual history, and Jewish thought. His dissertation explores the early Jewish reception of Kantian philosophy, focusing in particular on Salomon Maimon’s influential interpretation of the medieval Jewish philosopher Maimonides.
Jonathan Sitbon
Tel Aviv University | Israel
Ruth Tzipory
Tel Aviv University | Israel
Tel Aviv University and Israel Antiquities Authority. PhD candidate in the Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies and Archaeology. Archeologist at the Israel Antiquities Authority
Ayala Zilberstein
Tel Aviv University | Israel
Tel Aviv University and Israel Antiquities Authority. PhD candidate in the Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies and Archaeology. Archeologist at the Israel Antiquities Authority
Shlomo Zuckier
Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton | US
Shlomo Zuckier is a Research Associate at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and Orion Center Research Scholar at Hebrew University. He completed a PhD in Religious Studies at Yale University as well as a rabbinical school and advanced studies at Yeshiva University’s Kollel Elyon. Shlomo has taught at Yale, McGill, Yeshiva, and Touro Universities, as well as at a variety of Jewish adult education programs. He serves on the Editorial Committee of Tradition and has edited two books on contemporary Jewish theology.
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