Ordained by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi in 1992, Rabbi Firestone became a leader in the Jewish Renewal Movement and lectures and teaches widely on the confluence of Kabbalah and psychology and the reintegration of feminine wisdom tradition within Judaism.Professor Michael Fishbane is the Nathan Cummings Distinguished Service Professor of Jewish Studies. In 1979, Rabbi Greenberg was appointed the Director of the President’s Commission on the Holocaust which led to the establishment of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., of which he was the chairman from 2000-2002.
He holds an M.A. After ordination, she served as a Rabbinic Fellow at Congregation B’nai Jeshurun in NYC. Our faculty will administer a brief test for applicants to determine their eligibility. He is also a member of the American Academy for Jewish Research.
His most recent book is Martin Buber. Brill is the author of Rabbi Sharon Brous is the Founding Rabbi of IKAR in Los Angeles. Ordained at Yeshiva University, he holds a doctorate in Mythology/Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute where he has taught Myth, Literature and Religious Studies; Jung and Freud, and Kabbalah.
To complete your application you need to: Fill out the online application form below. He is an author of many books on Jewish theology, philosophy, and history, and has written several novels as well as popular articles and television and film scripts. The Pardes Kollel Experience. Likewise, one of our projects this year is a weekly podcast teaching Maimonides’ I for one feel confident that after leaving the Kollel I will be able go on to learn other areas of halakhah in the same depth as To me, the Kollel is the ultimate realization of the Pardes vision and mission. Jung Institute of Los Angeles as well as synagogues of all denominations throughout Southern California. Traditionally, many Jews recite Psalm 27 every morning during the month of Elul and through the High Holy Days, and I’d like to bring our attention to the final pasuk (verse) of this psalm: Peter Stein (Kollel 2009-11) sent us these words of Torah on Parshat Re’eh – In this week’s Torah portion Re’eh, we find the commandment concerning the ir nidachat, a city consigned to destruction because its inhabitants have turned to idolatry. She began her career as associate rabbi at Peninsula Temple Beth El, San Mateo, CA. Similarly, two Kollel students received ordination last year from that rabbi; one is spending a year as Rav Landes’ Kollel teaching assistant before setting out to teach in the States, and one is already there, teaching and mentoring other teachers.Some of us joined the Kollel as part of another rabbinical program.
At Shalom Hartman Institute, he heads the Alan and Loraine Fischer Family Center for Halakha.Professor Zohar’s main area of research is the history and development of halakha from the earliest times to present. from Yale College in 1982, and undertook graduate studies at Tel-Aviv and Harvard Universities before completing his doctorate at Columbia in 1991. degree from HUC-JIR and the University of Virginia. Another received private ordination from her teacher and currently splits her time between pursuing a Ph.D. in Rabbinics and teaching at Yeshivat Hadar in New York.This dedication to teaching, especially in such boundary-breaking institutions as Many of our members are community activists as well: one works with Russian-speaking youth in Russia, Israel, and America; one is director of the Leadership Program at Encounter; another is a policy designer for the international aid community. A dynamic and engaging speaker, he is a frequent lecturer at the C.G. Pardes Kollel Application Form. He is currently the Dorothy Grant Mclear Professor of Jewish Intellectual History at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago. In 2013, Brous was recognized as the most influential Rabbi in the United States by Newsweek and the Daily Beast, and as one of the Forward’s 50 most influential American Jews.Rabbi Dr. Ariel Burger is a writer, artist, teacher, and rabbi whose work combines spirituality, creativity, and strategies for social change. Jewish Tradition as it Adapts and Resists Disruption/Destruction.