Lisa Goldstein

Lisa Goldstein is Executive Director of Hillel of San Diego and a group leader of American World Jewish Service learning trips. She holds a BA in History from Brown University, an MA in Hebrew Letters and Jewish Education, and rabbinic ordination from HUC-JIR. She has taught courses on Jewish Meditation, Social Justice & Spirituality and Jewish Patterns of Living in diverse settings. In 2000, she was awarded the Richard M. Joel Staff Exemplars of Excellence Award, Hillel’s highest honor for professionals.

Andrea Hendler

Andrea Hendler most recently served for six and a half years as the Director of the Muehlstein Institute for Jewish Professional Leadership. She holds a Master of Policy Sciences from the University of Maryland and an MA in Jewish Studies from Baltimore Hebrew University. Previously, Andrea has worked as Executive Director of Project Interchange, as the Director of Global Volunteer Programs and the Africa/Asia Desk Director at the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, and as the North American Director of Project OTZMA at the Council of Jewish Federations (now United Jewish Communities). In 2007, she was awarded the Ted Comet Exemplar Award in Jewish Communal Service by the World Council of Jewish Communal Service.

 

Jill Jacobs is the Rabbi-in-Residence of Jewish Funds For Justice and the author of There Shall be No Needy: Pursuing Social Justice through Jewish Law and Tradition (Jewish Lights 2009). Her writings on Judaism and social justice have also appeared in more than two dozen magazines, journals, and newspapers. Rabbi Jacobs was named to the Forward Newspaper's annual list of fifty influential American Jews in 2006 and 2008; to the Jewish Week's "Thirty-six under thirty-six" in 2008; and to Newsweek's list of the fifty most influential rabbis in 2009. She received rabbinic ordination and an MA in Talmud from the Jewish Theological Seminary; an MS in Urban Affairs from Hunter College, CUNY; and a BA in Comparative Literature from Columbia University.

Sarra Lev, Ph.D., is co-chair of the Department of Rabbinic Civilization and associate professor at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (RRC), Wyncote, PA. She earned a BA in religious studies from York University, rabbinic ordination and an MA in Hebrew letters from RRC and a doctorate in rabbinic literature from New York University. Sarra was Rosh Yeshivah of Bat Kol: A Feminist House of Study, which she co-founded. She has taught courses on Judaism for numerous programs and institutions including New York University, the Feminist Center of the American Jewish Congress, Me'ah, and Jewish Alive & American, and has published several articles on rabbinics and gender issues.

Leonel Levy is the Associate Rabbi of Comunidad Bet El in Mexico City, a Conservative congregation of around 1,000 families. He was ordained by the Seminario Rabinico Latinoamericano in Buenos Aires, and holds an MA in Jewish History and Jewish Thought from the University of Haifa, as well as an MA in Jewish Studies from the Jewish Theological Seminary. In addition, he graduated from Law School at the University of Buenos Aires and is currently pursuing a PhD in Social and Political Science. He has taught in a variety of settings, including at the Hebraica University in Mexico City, as well as in Jewish high schools.

Nina Kujawski Price is the Director of Congregational Learning at Congregation Beth El of the Sudbury River Valley, outside of Boston, Massachusetts.  She holds an MA in Jewish Education and a Certificate in Jewish Communal Service from Hebrew Union College, as well as a BA in Comparative Literature from UC Berkeley.  Nina is an alumnus of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship as well as the Melton Senior Educators' Program, where she focused her research on Israel Experience mifgashim. In 2006, she was awarded the Legacy Heritage Innovator Award for her development of innovative approaches to congregational family learning through systemic change.

Susan Silverman holds a BA in Psychology from Boston University, an MEd in Multicultural Education from Harvard University, and rabbinic ordination and an MA in Hebrew Letters from HUC-JIR. She is the co-author of the best-selling book Jewish Family & Life and co-founder of its companion website and magazines. Susan has been a Rabbinic Advisor and Teacher at Brandeis University Hillel, and is a prolific speaker and writer on Jewish parenting.

David Stoleru is the co-founder of the Zakhor Study Center for the preservation and transmission of Jewish heritage of Spain, and co-founder of the Jewish Heritage Commission of Catalunya. An award-winning architect and local cantor, David holds an MD in Architecture from Paris-La Seine University, and took part in the Jewish Young Leadership Seminary of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. He is the founder of the Talmudic Studies Circle in Barcelona and is a researcher and teacher of Spain’s Jewish heritage.