Meet Our Speakers
 Miriam Bessin was born and raised in Toronto . After graduating from Ulpanat Orot High School , Miriam spent a year pursuing Judaic Studies in Midreshet Harova in Jerusalem . She returned to Toronto...
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 Rabbi Jack Bieler is a graduate of Yeshiva College, a recipient of a Masters Degree in Jewish education from the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology and Education, and was ordained by the Rabbi...
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 Rav David Bigman has been the Rosh HaYeshiva at Yeshivat Ma'ale Gilboa since 1995.
He was born in 1954 and studied in the Beit Midrash in Skokie, Illinois, with Rabbi Aryeh Bakst in Detroit and in...
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 Mrs. Rookie Billet is the principal of the Ma'ayanot Yeshiva High School for Girls in Teaneck , New Jersey , and former assistant principal of both the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls,...
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 Conrad Black is the author of biographies of Maurice Duplessis, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Richard M. Nixon and has also written A Life in Progress and A Matter of Principle. He was the publisher of...
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 Tsvi Blanchard is a catalyst for change. Longtime social advocate, psychologist, teacher and rabbi, he has been in the forefront of promoting inclusive, vital Jewish communities in the 21 st century...
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 Dr. Rivkah Blau is the author of essays in popular and academic journals as well as a biography of her father, Rav Mordechai Pinchas Teitz, entitled Learn Torah, Love Torah, Live Torah (KTAV, 2001)....
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Rabbi Yosef Blau is the Mashgiach Ruchani, Director of Religious Guidance, at Yeshiva University. A graduate of Yeshiva College, he received his Master’s degree in Math at YU’s Belfer Graduate School...
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 Rabbi Yitzchak Blau is a Rebbe at Yeshivat Hamivtar and previously taught at the Yeshiva of Flatbush High School. He has published many articles on Jewish Thought and is currently working on a book...
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Norman Blumenthal, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Hewlett, New York, specializing in adolescent and group therapy. Dr. Blumenthal is the coordinator of group psychotherapy...
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 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...
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 Edward Breuer, a native of Montreal, completed his doctoral work at Harvard and taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Loyola University. Since moving with his family to Israel in 2001, he has...
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 Mali Brofsky is a senior faculty member and director of the Shana Bet program at Michlelet Mevaseret Yerushalayim, where she teaches Tanakh and Jewish philosophy. In addition, she runs a clinical...
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 Dr. Brom is the founder and director of The Israel Center for the Treatment of Psychotrauma, and head of the Israeli Trauma Coalition. Dr. Brom was among the founders of the Dutch Psychotrauma...
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 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...
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 Professor Benny Brown lectures in the Department of Jewish Thought in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is one of the leading scholars in the world on Haredi thought and ideology. His doctoral...
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 Dr. Erica Brown is the director of the Mayberg Center for Jewish Education and Leadership and an associate professor of curriculum and pedagogy at The George Washington University. Erica was a...
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Michael J. Broyde is a professor of law and the academic director of the Law and Religion Program at Emory University. He is also a senior fellow in the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at...
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