He received ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. A Wexner fellow, Rabbi Richman is currently pursuing a doctorate in Rabbinics at New York University.Дavid SilberВ is the Founder and Dean of Drisha Institute for Jewish Education. Her interests include halakhah, gender and sexuality in Judaism, and niggunim. A graduate of Oberlin College, Rabbi Richman studied in the Pardes Kollel and the Drisha Scholars Circle and received ordination from Rabbi Daniel Landes in Jerusalem. Rabbi Kelsen received ordination from Rabbis Daniel Landes and Zalman Nehemiah Goldberg, holds an MA in Jewish Civilization from Hebrew University, and is currently pursuing doctoral studies in Education and Jewish Studies at New York University as a Wexner Graduate Fellow.ДЄviva RichmanВ is a faculty member at Yeshivat Hadar, where she teaches Talmud and halakhahВ and directs the winter learning seminar. He also teaches Talmud at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah and serves as adjunct faculty at the Pardes Institute. Jon Kelsen is a faculty member at Drisha and Rosh Kollel of the Drisha Kollel. Ibrahim is completing a doctorate in Arabic and Islamic Civilizations in the Near Eastern and Judaic Studies Department at Brandeis University. Ibrahim holds an AB in Near Eastern Studies with highest honors from Princeton University, an MA in WomenвЂ™s and Gender Studies and Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University, and an MDiv from Harvard Divinity School. Her research specialties include Muslim feminist theology, Islamic intellectual history, and interreligious leadership. Ibrahim has published widely on academic forums, and her contributions to increasing religious literacy have been featured in The New York Times, The Huffington Post, BBC Persian, Public Radio International, and the Religion Initiative of the Council on Foreign Relations, among other venues. She has served as the Muslim Chaplain for Tufts University since 2014 and is an instructor at the Boston Islamic Seminary. Prior to embarking on a career in Jewish Education, she was an associate in the Intellectual Property department at Debevoise & Plimpton, LLP.Д¬elene IbrahimВ holds a joint faculty appointment as the Islamic Studies Scholar-in-Residence at Hebrew College and Andover Newton Theological School, where she co-directs the Center for Inter-Religious and Communal Leadership Education (CIRCLE) and supports programming at the newly established Betty Ann Greenbaum Miller Center for Interreligious Learning and Leadership. Cardozo School of Law, from which she received her JD. She received her BA in Biology from Yeshiva University, and she was a Golding Scholar at the Benjamin N.

Hecht-Koller is a graduate of the Bruriah Scholars Program in Advanced Talmud Studies at Midreshet Lindenbaum. She is a founding member of the Orthodox Leadership Project and was a fellow at the Paideia Institute of Jewish Studies in Stockholm. She has taught Talmud and comparative ethics for many years, most recently at SAR High School. Shira Hecht-Koller is Director of Education at 929, previously served as the Director or Communal Engagement at Drisha and the coordinator of DrishaвЂ™s Dr.

Hartman is a founder of Congregation Shira Hadasha in Jerusalem. She is currently finishing a book on male trauma and shame.

She is the author of Are You Not a Man of God?: Devotion, Betrayal, and Social Criticism in Jewish Tradition Feminism Encounters Jewish Tradition: Resistance and Accommodation and Appropriately Subversive: Modern Mothers in Traditional ReligionsВ as well as of numerous articles. Tova HartmanВ is Dean of Humanities at Ono Academic College, the largest private college in Israel, established to foster inclusiveness and multicultural education. SheВ has a BA from the University of Chicago in the History and Philosophy of Science and a JD from NYU School of Law.В She studied in the Drisha Scholars Circle as well as at other programs in Israel and Boston, andВ has taught at several New York area synagogues and Hillels.В She practiced commercial litigation at a large law firm, and completed a judicial clerkship in the Southern District of New York. The Pardes 2.Miriam GedwiserВ is a faculty member at Drisha.The podcasts can be listened to directly on Elmad or through Itunes, Stitcher or other podcast applications. Many faculty members contribute to the weekly podcasts which Pardes produces through its online learning channel Elmad. Rabbi Leon Morris is the President of Pardes.

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