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Leon A. Morris has served as the Executive Director of the Skirball Center for Adult Jewish Learning since its inception. He received his ordination from Hebrew Union College in 1997 where he was a Wexner Graduate Fellow. Leon has worked extensively as an educator with the Jewish community of India, and returns there regularly. He co-produced a radio documentary on contemporary Jewish life in India, which premiered on Radio Canada in December 2003 (now available on iTunes). For three years, Leon served as Director of New York Kollel: A Center for Adult Jewish Study at HUC-JIR. He was among the founders of Lishmah. In addition to teaching at Skirball, he has taught at Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform synagogues as well as Drisha. He has contributed essays to The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Baltimore Sun, The Jewish Week and Beliefnet. He has appeared on NPR's Morning Edition and PBS's Religion and Ethics Newsweekly. During the summers, Leon serves as a congregational rabbi in Sag Harbor, Long Island.
Leon is currently a Mandel Fellow.
More information on Leon Morris and articles he has written
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Darone Ruskay has been the Managing Director of The Skirball Center for Adult Jewish Learning since the Fall of 2006. Before coming to the Skirball Center, Darone served as Assistant Director of Institutional Advancement at The Jewish Theological Seminary, Director of the UJC Young Leadership Cabinet and Conference Coordinator for The Coalition for the Advancement of Jewish Education.
Darone can be reached at 212.507.9541 or by email
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Dr. Neil Gillman
DR. NEIL GILLMAN is the Skirball Center's Scholar-in-Residence and Professor of Jewish Philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS). A world-renowned thinker and teacher, Neil is the author of several seminal books on Jewish theology, including Sacred Fragments: Recovering Theology for the Modern Jew.
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Dr. David Greenstein
DR. DAVID GREENSTEIN is Rosh Ha-Yeshivah/Rabbinic Dean of the Academy for Jewish Religion, where he teaches Rabbinics, Kabbalah, and Jewish Thought and offers rabbinic guidance. David has a doctorate in Rabbinics and Kabbalah. He has published articles on Jewish aesthetics, pluralism, and Talmud.
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Dr. David Kraemer
DR. DAVID KRAEMER is Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics at JTS where he is also Joseph J. and Dora Abbell Librarian, overseeing the greatest collection of Judaica in the Western world. Among his many publications is his recently published Jewish Eating and Identity Through the Ages. He is a Senior Core Faculty Scholar at the Skirball Center.
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Rabbi Leon A. Morris
RABBI LEON A. MORRIS is the Executive Director of the Skirball Center for Adult Jewish Learning. Ordained at Hebrew Union College, Leon has taught at Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform synagogues as well as at the Drisha Institute. His essays have appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Baltimore Sun, The Jewish Week, and beliefnet.com, and he has been featured on NPR's Morning Edition. He is currently a Mandel Fellow.
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Michal Nachmany
MICHAL NACHMANY is a graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Michal has taught liturgical, biblical, and modern Hebrew for more than twenty years at synagogues and other institutions throughout New York City.
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Arlene Agus - Adjunct
ARLENE AGUS is an executive consultant to Jewish family foundations. She is a contributing author to Beginning Anew: A Woman's Companion to the High Holidays and What Happens After I Die?
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Dr. Motti Arad - Adjunct
DR. MOTTI ARAD, a visiting Assistant Professor in Talmud at JTS, holds a doctorate in Talmud from JTS. His main research interest is the attitude toward non-rabbis in rabbinic literature. He is the author of the forthcoming Desecrators of the Sabbath with Parhessia.
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Basmat Hazan Arnoff - Adjunct
BASMAT HAZAN ARNOFF has taught at many institutions in the United States and Israel. She is the author of Mayyim Hafoochim and works as a theater director. Her play, LeShem Yuchud, won the award for best ensemble at the Akko Theater Festival. She recently adapted David Grossman's See: Under Love for the stage.
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Yoram Bitton - Adjunct
YORAM BITTON has a BA in Talmud and Jewish History from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has served as a visiting scholar at the University of Michigan and taught at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah in New York and at the Hebrew University.
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Dr. Jasmin Bey Cowin - Adjunct
DR. JASMIN BEY COWIN, a trained German harpist, received her M.Ed. and doctorate in Education from Teachers College/Columbia University. Prior to that, she graduated from the Staatliche Hochschule fuer Musik in Karlsruhe with a Diploma in Education and Orchestra Harpist. She teaches at Hunter College’s Continuing Education Department, the University of California, the New York Public Library, and the Opera Company of Brooklyn.
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Shelly R. Fredman - Adjunct
SHELLY R. FREDMAN teaches writing at Barnard College. She received an MFA from Washington University and has taught at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Her work has appeared in Best Jewish Writing 2002, First Harvest, the Chicago Tribune Magazine, Lilith, and a number of anthologies and literary magazines.
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Dr. William Kolbrener - Adjunct
DR. WILLIAM KOLBRENER, educated at Columbia and Oxford Universities, teaches in the Department of English at Bar Ilan University, focusing on Renaissance literature and philosophy. His works include Milton"s Warring Angels (Cambridge, 1997) and a
new collection on the eighteenth-century proto-feminist Mary Astell
(Ashgate, 2007). William has also written extensively on Jewish
philosophy and hermeneutics.
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Rabbi Michael Marmur - Adjunct
RABBI MICHAEL MARMUR is the Dean of the Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion"s Jerusalem School. Prior to joining the administration of HUC-JIR, Michael served as rabbi of Ohel Avraham Congregation at the Leo Baeck Education Centre in Haifa, Israel.
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Anne Roiphe - Adjunct
ANNE ROIPHE is the author of thirteen books of fiction and non- fiction, including Lovingkindness and 1185 Park Ave. She is a journalist and a contributing editor to the Jerusalem Report.
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Fred Rosenbaum - Adjunct
FRED ROSENBAUM is the Founding Director of Lehrhaus Judaica, the West Coast's largest school for adult Jewish education. He is the author of four books and numerous articles on modern and contemporary Jewish history and has taught at the University of San Francisco, San Francisco State University, and Berkeley's Graduate Theological Union. He spent a year in Goettingen, Germany, as a Fulbright Fellow researching the Christian resistance to Hitler.
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Dr. Diane M. Sharon - Adjunct
DR. DIANE M. SHARON is a member of the faculty in Bible at the Academy for Jewish Religion. She has taught at JTS, Fordham University, General Theological Seminary (Episcopal), and other institutions of higher learning. Her area of expertise is the Hebrew Bible in its context in the ancient Near East, comparative religion, and women's studies.
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Dr. Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg - Adjunct
DR. AVIVAH GOTTLIEB ZORNBERG is the author of Genesis: The Beginning of Desire, for which she won the National Jewish Book Award, and The Particulars of Rapture: Reflections on Exodus. She was born in London and grew up in Glasgow, where her father was a rabbi and the head of the rabbinical court. Avivah holds a doctorate in English literature from Cambridge University. After teaching English literature at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, she turned her literary sensibility and skills to teaching Torah. For the past twenty years, she has taught Torah in Jerusalem at Matan, Pardes, and the Jerusalem College for Adults. Avivah also holds a Visiting Lectureship at the London School of Jewish Studies. She travels widely, lecturing in Jewish and academic settings. Her forthcoming book, The Murmuring Deep: Reflections on the Rabbinic Unconscious, is in press (Schocken).
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