Meet Our Speakers
 Rabbi Lee Buckman is an oleh chadah living in Jerusalem who made aliyah from North America in December, 2017. Prior to moving to his new home, Lee served as a day school educator heading up three...
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 Rabbi Dr. Reuven P. Bulka has been the spiritual leader of Congregation Machzikei Hadas in Ottawa since 1967. In addition to being an accomplished...
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 Dan Butler has been a syndicated Weekly Columnist. A Securities Salesman. A College Professor. A retail store manager. And, a Regional Director for the National Conference of Synagogue Youth (NCSY...
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 Shira holds a BA from Brandeis University in Fine Arts and Hebrew, and a Masters of Teaching degree from OISE (U of T). During the academic year Shira teaches at Netivot HaTorah in the resource...
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 Kimmy Caplan teaches modern Jewish history in the Kushitzky Department of Jewish History at Bar-Ilan University. His field of scholarly interest is religious history in the 19th and 20th Centuries,...
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 Rav Yosef Gershon Carmel was born in Jerusalem in 1953. He is the Rabbinical Dean of the Eretz Hemdah, Institute for advanced Jewish studies in Jerusalem, as well as the Av Beit Din of the Beit Din...
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Editor of Tradition. Teaches Philosophy and Jewish Studies at Yeshiva University. Selected by R. Soloveitchik to edit his writings; edited Worship of the Heart and presently completing a second...
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Aviva Cayam grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, went to the Hebrew Academy there, studied for a year at Machon Gold, received a BA from Case Western Reserve University in history and a BHL from the Cleveland...
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 Rabbi Yuval Cherlow, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Hesder Petach Tikva is a graduate of Yeshivat Har Etzion and a retired major in the IDF. After obtaining his Rabbinic Semicha, Rabbi Cherlow served as...
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 Originally from Columbus, Ohio, Sarah Cheses is teaching Judaic Studies at Ulpanat Orot High School. Together with her husband Rabbi Noah Cheses, they served for three years as the Co-Directors of...
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 Rabbi Noah Cheses is the Assistant Rabbi at Shaarei Shomayim Congregation. Previously, he was the associate Rabbi at the Yale University Hillel where he also served as the Co-Director of JLIC, the...
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 Dr. Adam S. Cohen teaches in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Toronto, where he has also served as assistant director of the university’s Centre for Jewish Studies and...
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 Currently serving as Opposition Critic for Justice and Human Rights, Professor Cotler is a distinguished academic and a prominent human rights lawyer, whose dedication to humanitarian causes has...
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 Andrew Dale is a financier - previously one of the youngest executives on Bay Street - turned entrepreneur, who recently founded a fashion brand, LeDaveed. He is a two-time nominee of the Out on Bay...
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 Rabbi Bar-on Dasberg is a teacher of gemara, tanach, Jewish philosophy, and halacha, and currently serves as a shaliach at CHAT. He is also the author of a weekly parshat ha'shavua column entitled, "...
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 Rabbi David Debow is the director of Emunah v'Omanut, the first religious Zionist overseas program for women that is dedicated in full to the integrated learning of Torah and the arts. Rabbi Debow ...
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 Dr. Yocheved Debow is the author of the recently published book, Talking About Intimacy and Sexuality: A Guide for Orthodox Jewish Parents. Dr. Debow holds a doctorate from Bar Ilan University’s...
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