Engagement and Disengagement: The Future of Religion in the Land of Israel - Panel Discussion
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Rabbi Chaim Brovender
Rabbi Chaim Brovender is President of the ATID Foundation and Rosh Yeshiva of WebYeshiva.org, the premier fully interactive online yeshiva. He stood at the forefront of pioneering Jewish Studies programs for highly educated young men and women who come to Israel from all over the world to study in an Orthodox environment. Rabbi Brovender attended Yeshiva University before making aliya to Israel in 1965. He received his Ph.D from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1974. Rabbi Brovender founded Yeshivat…
Rabbi Dr. Adam S Ferziger
Professor Adam S. Ferziger Professor Adam S. Ferziger holds the Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch Chair for Research of the Torah and Derekh Erez Movement in the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel. He is co-convener of the annual Oxford Summer Institute for Modern and Contemporary Judaism, University of Oxford, UK, and a senior associate of the Oxford Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. An intellectual and social historian, Ferziger’s research focuses on Jewish…
Rabbi Dr. Pinchas Hayman
Rabbi Dr. Pinchas Hayman received rabbinical ordination and his Doctorate at Yeshiva University (RIETS). He Lectured in the Department of Talmud at Bar Ilan serving as the University's Dean of Students, and as Director of the Joseph H. Lookstein Center for Jewish Education in the Diaspora.Rabbi Dr. Hayman is engaged in the production of curricula, and teaching and learning materials for the teaching of Mishnah and Talmud in primary, secondary and post-secondary schools.
Rabbi Francis Nataf
Rabbi Francis Nataf is a respected educator and thinker, well known for his ability to find new ways of looking at Jewish texts and tradition and for his willingness to confront the community's problems head on. He is the author of Redeeming Relevance in the Book of Genesis (Urim: 2006) and Redeeming Relevance in the Book of Exodus (Urim: 2009) as well as of numerous articles for a variety of important Jewish periodicals and websites.