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faculty and staff

Rabba Sara Hurwitz

President and Co-Founder

Amanda Shechter

Senior Vice President of Finance and Operations

Maya Bernstein

Leadership Faculty

Rabba Avital Engelberg

Director of Maharat BaAretz

Advanced Kollel: Executive Ordination

2015

Dr. Katie Light Soloway

Director of Recruitment & Admissions

Rabbanit Dr. Liz Shayne

Director of Academic Affairs

Core Semikha

2021

Rachel Zorbaron

Director of Alumnae and Community Engagement

Rabbi Avi Weiss

Co-Founder

Dr. Esther Altmann

Director of Pastoral Education

Kay Bros

Development Associate

Assistant to the President

Rabbi Adam Mintz

Talmud & Practical Rabbinics Faculty

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

Tanakh Faculty

Rabbi Jeffrey Fox

Rosh HaYeshiva and Dean of Faculty

Rabba Wendy Amsellem

Director of Beit Midrash Program and Halakha Faculty

Advanced Kollel: Executive Ordination

2018

Rabbanit Tanya Farber

Mashgicha Ruchanit and Gemara Faculty

Core Semikha

2021

Rabbi Herzl Hefter

Halahka in Action Faculty

Rabbi Daniel Reifman

Halakha Faculty

Rabbanit Aliza Sperling

Tanakh and Beit Midrash Program Faculty

Advanced Kollel: Executive Ordination

2019

Liz Offenbach

Executive Vice President

Dr. Miriam Benhaim

Process Group Facilitator

Jude E.

Communications Manager

Rabbi Dr. Erin Leib Smokler

Director of Spiritual Development and Publications Editor

Advanced Kollel: Executive Ordination

2018

Dr. Rachel Rosenthal

Gemara Faculty

Advanced Kollel: Executive Ordination

2025

Rabbi Dr. Daniel Sperber

Posek HaYeshiva

leadership
directors

advisory board

advisory

Rabbanit Smadar Ben-David

Rabbi Michael Balinsky

Rav Rahel Berkovits

Rabbanit Devorah Evron

Rav David Bigman

Rabbi Steven Exler

Rabbi Zev Farber

Reb Mimi Feigelson

Dr. Arna Poupko Fisher

Dr. Sylvia Barack Fishman

Rabbi Aaron Frank

Blu Greenberg

Dr. Lynn Kaye

Rav Meesh Hammer-Kassoy

Rabbi David Kalb

Rabbi Yosef Kanefsky

Rachel Keren

Judy Klitsner

Rabbi Shmuel Klitsner

Esther Krauss

Rabbi Dov Linzer

Rabbi Shlomo Riskin

Rabbi Adam Scheier

Rabbi Hanan Schlesinger

Rabbi Hyim Shafner

Rabbi Dr. Daniel Sperber

Rabbi Mendel Shapiro

Rabbi Saul Strosberg

Rabbi Uri Topolosky

Rabbi Mishael Zion

Avigail Zohar

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