Speaker Profile Shira Hecht-Koller

Shira Hecht-Koller, is an educational entrepreneur, attorney and writer.  She is currently Director of Education for 929 English, an educational start-up and global platform for the study of Tanakh. She brings with her over fifteen years of experience teaching Jewish Studies and designing interdisciplinary curricula in the classroom and immersive learning environments. She has taught at North Shore Hebrew Academy, SARHS, and at Drisha, where she directed the Dr. Beth Samuels High School Fellowship Program, and she has practiced corporate IP law at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP. She teaches, writes and speaks globally on topics of Bible, Jewish law, family life and creativity. She is the author, together with Hanoch Piven, of Dream Big, Laugh Often: And More Great Advice from the Bible (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, forthcoming 2023) and her photography illustrates The Jewish Journey Haggadah. She was a Paradigm Fellow at the Paideia Institute of Jewish Studies in Stockholm, a Fellow in M2’s Jewish Pedagogies Fellowship and sits on the advisory board of Grow Torah. She holds a JD from Cardozo School of Law, and is a graduate of the Bruriah Scholars Talmud program at Midreshet Lindenbaum. She is an avid tennis fan and loves hiking and exploring the world with her partner Aaron and children Dalya, Shachar, Amitai and Aiden.

 

Speaker's Resources

e-TIM: Parshat HaShavuah 5785 with Weekly Guest Speakers

Dr. Tammy Jacobowitz, Leora Moskowitz Orenshein, Professor Shoshana Schechter, Professor Yitzhak Berger, Rabbanit Dr. Adena Berkowitz, Rabbi Adam Mintz, Rabbi Asher Finkelstein, Rabbi Aviad Tabory, Rabbi Benjamin Samuels, Rabbi Chaim Metzger, Rabbi David Harbater, Rabbi Dr. Ezra Frazer, Rabbi Dr. Jacob Jaffe, Rabbi Elliot Schrier, Rabbi Eric Grossman, Rabbi Judah Kerbel, Rabbi Mark Glass, Rabbi Menachem Leibtag, Rabbi Moshe Shulman, Rabbi Nathaniel Helfgot, Rabbi Steven Gotlib, Rabbi Yitzchak Etshalom, Ruth Shane, Sarah Gordon, Shira Hecht-Koller, Sofia Freudenstein, Susan Hornstein, Yoetzet Halacha Adina Blaustein, Yosef Lindell
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Oct 16, 2024
Audio
Jun 2, 2024

e-TiM: Shavuot Yom Iyyun

Dr. Aaron Koller, Dr. Beni Gesundheit, Dr. Rebecca Winter Gottlieb, Rabbanit Rachel Weber Leshaw, Rabbi Menachem Leibtag, Rabbi Zvi Grumet, Rachel Sharansky Danziger, Shira Hecht-Koller
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May 24, 2024
Audio
May 19, 2022

e-TiM: Parshat Hashavua 5782 with weekly guest speaker

Avi Siegal, Dr. Aaron Koller, Dr. Moshe Sokolow, Dr. Nechama Price, Dr. Rebecca Winter Gottlieb, Dr. Tammy Jacobowitz, Leah Silver, Leora Moskowitz Orenshein, Miriam Krupka, Neti Linzer, Noah Notis, Professor Shoshana Schechter, Rabbanit Leah Sarna, Rabbi Aaron Greenberg, Rabbi Aviad Tabory, Rabbi Benjamin Samuels, Rabbi Brahm Weinberg, Rabbi Daniel Fridman, Rabbi Daniel Korobkin, Rabbi David Blackman, Rabbi David Nachbar, Rabbi Eitan Aviner, Rabbi Gedalyah Berger, Rabbi Jared Anstandig, Rabbi Joel Finkelstein, Rabbi Maury Kelman, Rabbi Mordechai Torczyner, Rabbi Moshe Shulman, Rabbi Nathaniel Helfgot, Rabbi Noah Sonenberg, Rabbi Shaul Robinson, Rabbi Shlomo Gemara, Rabbi Steven Gotlib, Rabbi Yitzchak Etshalom, Rabbi Yosef Adler, Rachel Slutsky, Rifki Freundlich, Shalhevet Schwartz, Shira Hecht-Koller, Zissy Turner
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Sep 10, 2021

e-TiM Parshat Shavua 5781 with weekly guest speaker

Atara Kelman, Dr. Aaron Koller, Dr. Nechama Price, Dr. Rebecca Winter Gottlieb, Dr. Rivka Press Schwartz, Miriam Gedwiser, Professor Shoshana Schechter, Rabba Wendy Amsellem, Rabbanit Leah Sarna, Rabbi Allen Schwartz, Rabbi Aviad Tabory, Rabbi Benjamin Samuels, Rabbi Brahm Weinberg, Rabbi Daniel Korobkin, Rabbi David Blackman, Rabbi Dr. Jacob Jaffe, Rabbi Dr. Seth Grauer, Rabbi Eitan Aviner, Rabbi Jay Kelman, Rabbi Joel Finkelstein, Rabbi Michael Whitman, Rabbi Moshe Shulman, Rabbi Nathaniel Helfgot, Rabbi Noah Cheses, Rabbi Sam Berkovitz, Rabbi Shaul Robinson, Rabbi Shlomo Gemara, Rabbi Ya'akov Trump, Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich, Rabbi Yitzchak Etshalom, Rabbi Yosef Adler, Rabbi Yosie Levine, Rachel Slutsky, Rifki Freundlich, Shira Hecht-Koller, Zissy Turner
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Oct 15, 2020
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Jan 21, 2018