Lior Caspi is Limmud Seattle president-elect and a board member at Seattle Jewish Chorale. He serves as a Federation committee member, startup coach and leader in technology and healthcare.

Rabba Shani Gross is the Director of North American Programs at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies. Shani earned rabbinic ordination from Yeshivat Maharat, is a Wexner Graduate Fellow/Davidson Scholar (Class 29), and a former Hillel Fellow for Rabbinic Entrepreneurship ...

Joel is an American who made aliyah to Jerusalem in 2009. He works as a licensed tour guide in Israel, and also researches, writes and presents about Jewish Food. He can be found at www.tasteofjew.com and www.fjisrael.com ...

Yael Weinstein, M.A., Director of Community and Online Learning for the Florence Melton School of Adult Jewish Learning, earned her Master of Arts degree in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University in 2006. Yael is the author of ...

Rabbi Mike Uram is the Chief Vision and Education Officer for Pardes North America. Before that, he served as the Executive Director and Campus Rabbi at Penn Hillel for over 16 years. He is the author of the best-selling book ...

Anita Silvert is an experienced adult Jewish educator, facilitator, singer, actor, writer, and community builder. She is a proud member of the Board of Limmud North America, and was a founder of Limmud Chicago. Anita is in production of a ...

Craig Taubman began his career at the age of 15, when he picked up a guitar and began to lead music at Camp Ramah in Ojai, California. His eclectic musical styles, have made his recordings an integral part of the ...

Rabbi Dr. Levi Cooper teaches Hasidut, Maimonides, and Midrash at Pardes. Originally from Australia, Levi holds an LL.B., LL.M. and Ph.D. from the Law of Faculty, Bar-Ilan University, and is a member of the Israel Bar Association. Levi’s communal work ...

Rabbi Dr. Meesh Hammer-Kossoy teaches Talmud and the Social Justice Track at Pardes. Originally from Washington, D.C., Meesh completed her studies at Beit Midrash Har’el in 2015 and received ordination from Rabbi Herzl Hefter and Rabbi Daniel Sperber. ...

All Jews choose their Judaism from the Judaisms that came before; no one does everything. Animal sacrifice and its prayer substitutes, the Jerusalem Temple and synagogues worldwide, universalism and particularism and chauvinism and tolerance and openness, the Psalms and Yehuda Amichai’s poetry – they ...