The Conversion Crisis- Panel
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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…
Rabbi Dr. Barry Freundel
Rabbi Dr. Barry Freundel is the spiritual leader of Kesher Israel: The Georgetown Synagogue. He received his smicha from Yeshiva University and his Phd from Baltimore Hebrew University where he serves as an Assistant Professor of Rabbinics. He has also served as an Adjunct Instructor at the University of Maryland, an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University, and a Consultant to the Ethics Review Board of the National Institute of Aging of the National Institutes of Health. Rabbi Freundel…
Rabbi Kenneth Brander
Rabbi Kenneth Brander is the inaugural Dean of Yeshiva University, Center for the Jewish Future (CJF). The CJF shapes, enriches, and inspires the contemporary Jewish community by convening the resource of Yeshiva University . It does so by infusing the student body with the spirit of leadership and sense of Klal Yisrael. CJF serves to build, cultivate and support communities, Rabbinic and lay leaders, and individuals. Furthermore, CJF is creating a global movement that promotes the values of Yeshiva University…
Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein
Yitzchok Adlerstein is a member of the beit din l'giyur of the Rabbinical Council of California. This beit din played an important role in helping the RCA arrive at the protocols of the new GPS that has won recognition for the converts of the RCA with the Israeli Rabbinate. He holds the Sydney M Irmas Adjunct Chair in Jewish Law and Ethics at Loyola Law School, and teaches at Yeshiva University High Schools in Los Angeles. Rabbi Adlerstein is a…