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Dr. Yoel Finkelman

Dr. Yoel Finkelman is Curator of the Haim and Hanna Salomon Judaica Collection at the National Library of Israel. He is author of Strictly Kosher Reading: Popular Literature and the Condition of Contemporary Orthodoxy.  

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Rabbi Benny Lau

Noted scholar, author, and social justice activist, Rav Dr. Binyamin “Benny” Lau is senior rabbi at Ramban Synagogue in Jerusalem. He is director of the 929 Tanakh B'Yachad daily Bible study initiative, which has a quarter million Israelis, from secular to ultra-Orthodox, in the study of the 929 chapters of the Tanakh, from Genesis to Chronicles.  Rav Benny heads the Israel Democracy Institute's Human Rights and Judaism in Action project, and is the rabbi of the modern Orthodox Ramban Synagogue in southern

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Rabbi Yehuda Gilad

Rav Gilad holds a bold Jewish world-view that embraces human rights and personal dignity. Raised in Petah Tikvah, he studied in Israel’s finest yeshivot, including HaYishuv HeChadash in Tel Aviv, Mercaz HaRav in Jerusalem and Yeshivat Har Etzion in Gush Etzion. While enrolled at Yeshivat Har Etzion, he served as a combat soldier in the Armored Corps rising to the rank of Captain. After completing his army service he earned his Teacher’s Certificate from the Yitzchak Herzog Teachers College and

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