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Etta Abramson studied in Drisha’s Beit Midrash Program as an Arts Fellow. She teaches Chumash at Beit Rabban Day School. She has a BA in Theatre Studies from York University and was trained as a classical singer at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Canada. She performs around New York City and has taught courses in liturgy and ta’amei hamikra at Drisha.

Ruth Balinsky Friedman learns at Yeshivat Maharat. She studied in Drisha’s Beit Midrash Program and Scholars Circle and participated in the Collegiate and Graduate Student Immersion Program. She serves as Rosh Beit Midrash of Uri L’Tzedek, has been a Rabbinic Fellow at Or Tzedek, and has taught in a variety of settings in New York and Chicago. She has a BA in Psychology and Jewish Studies from Barnard College.

David Goshen is a graduate of the Har Etzion and Mir Yeshivot and has studied Philosophy and Religion at the Hebrew University. He taught at the 'Havruta' Beit Midrash program at Hebrew University and Tel Aviv University.

Gila Hoch is the Director of the Dr. Beth Samuels High School Program. An alumna of Barnard College with a BA in Jewish History, Gila is pursuing an MA in Talmud at Bar Ilan University while studying in the Advanced Talmudic Institute at Matan Institute in Jerusalem.

Yedidah Koren is currently studying in the Advanced Talmudic Institute at Matan Jerusalem, and is a member of the steering committee of Yeshivat Talpiot, an egalitarian yeshiva initiative in Jerusalem. She studied Talmud and Classics at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and has also studied at Drisha, Migdal Oz, and Midreshet Lindenbaum. During the upcoming year, she and her husband will be the scholars in residence at the Paideia institute for Jewish studies in Stockholm.

Daniel Reifman teaches Halakha at Midreshet Lindenbaum and Midreshet Amit. He taught Halakha in the Drisha Scholars Circle. He received ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and has an MA in Bible from the Bernard Revel Graduate School.

Joshua Schreier teaches at Midreshet Lin­denbaum in Jerusalem and has taught at Yeshivat Ohel Shlomo in Beer Sheva. He has a BA in His­tory and an MS in Jewish Education from Yeshiva University. He received ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary.

Ben Skydell is the Assistant Principal for Judaic Studies at the North Shore Hebrew Academy High School in Great Neck, NY. He received ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theo­logical Seminary.

Aviva Stern has an MA in Bible from the Bernard Revel Graduate School and a BA from Stern College. She learned at Stern’s Graduate Program for Biblical and Talmudic Interpretation, and teaches Judaic Studies at Yeshiva Har Torah.

Devorah Wolf teaches Talmud, and is a Special Services Assistant at Ma’ayanot. She is pursuing an MA in English Literature at Hunter College, has a BA from Barnard College, and is a graduate of the Stern Graduate Program in Advanced Talmudic Studies. She has also studied at Drisha Institute, Bernard Revel Graduate School, and Pardes Institute.

Sara Tillinger Wolkenfeld is co-director of the Jewish Learning Initiative at Princeton University. She was a member of the Drisha Scholars Circle and has studied Talmud and Halakha at Midreshet Lindenbaum, Nishmat, the Pardes Kollel, and Beit Morashah and has studied Talmud at the Bernard Revel Graduate School. She has a BA in Judaic Studies and Comparative Literature from the University of Pennsylvania.

 

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