Esther Altmann is on the teaching faculty at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School and is a supervising psychologist at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center. She is in private practice where she specializes in work with adolescents, couples, and families.

Wendy Amsellem is Director of the Dr. Beth Samuels High School Program and an alumna of the Drisha Scholars Circle. She is pursuing a PhD in Judaic Studies at New York University and has a BA in History and Literature from Harvard University.

David Arnow, PhD, is the author of Creating Living Passover Seders: A Sourcebook of Engaging Tales, Texts & Activities (2004) and co-editor of the two volume My Peoples Passover Haggadah (2008), both published by Jewish Lights. He has published numerous articles on the Passover Haggadah in Jewish newspapers and scholarly journals.

Yitzhak Berger is Assistant Professor of Bible at Hunter College. He has a PhD in Bible from the Bernard Revel Graduate School and ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. He has taught Bible at Yeshiva College, Jewish Studies at the Yeshivah of Flatbush High School and Talmud in Drisha’s full-time programs.

Jerome Chanes, is the author, amongst other works, of the award-winning A Dark Side of History: Antisemitism through the Ages and A Portrait of the American Jewish Community. Forthcoming is The Future of American Judaism (Columbia University Press).

Jeffrey S. Fox is the first musmach of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School. He served as the Rabbi of Kehilat Kesher in Tenafly and Englewood, NJ. He taught in the Beit Midrash Program at YCT and the Florence Melton Adult Mini Schools of Westchester and Bergen Counties.

Rachel Friedman is Associate Dean and Chair of Tanakh Studies at Drisha. She also directs Drisha's Yesodot Skill-Building Program. She has served as scholar-in-residence at synagogues and educational institutions throughout the United States and abroad. She has an MA in Bible from Yeshiva University and a JD from Columbia University School of Law.

Nathaniel Helfgot is a Maggid Shiur in Talmud and Director of the Tanakh and Jewish Thought Departments at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School. An alumnus of the Jerusalem Fellows program, he received ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and has an MA in Education from the David J. Azrieli Graduate School.

Tammy Jacobowitz is pursuing a PhD in Midrash at the University of Pennsylvania with a Wexner Graduate Fellowship. A graduate of the Drisha Scholars Circle, she has taught extensively in various communal settings throughout the New York and Philadelphia areas. She recently co-authored JOFA’s gender-sensitive Shmot curriculum and is on the Rabbinics faculty for Me’ah NYC.

Moshe Kahn teaches halakha in the Drisha Beit Midrash Program; is an instructor of Talmud and Halakha at Stern College for Women, the Graduate Program for Women in Advanced Talmudic Studies of Yeshiva University; and is a member-in-training to become a licensed psychoanalyst at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis in New York City. He received ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary.

Amy Kalmanofsky is an Assistant Professor of Bible at The Jewish Theological Seminary, teaching courses on Biblical Literature, Religion, and Feminist Interpretation of the Bible. She has written a book, Terror All Around: The Rhetoric of Horror in the Book of Jeremiah, and many articles. She has a BA from Wesleyan University, a PhD from The Jewish Theological Seminary, and received ordination from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College.

Jonathan Kelsen teaches Talmud in the Drisha Beit Midrash Program and is a faculty member at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah. A graduate of the Pardes Kollel and a fellow in the Shalom Hartman Institute’s Hadarim Program, he received ordination from Rabbi Daniel Landes and holds an MA in Jewish Civilization from the International School of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Aaron Koller is an assistant professor in the department of Bible at Yeshiva University, and has interests especially in the fields of Semitic languages and Israelite history.

Menachem Leibtag is one of the pioneers of Torah education via the internet. He is the founder of Yeshivat Har Etzion’s Virtual Beit Midrash and more recently founded the Tanakh Study Center. He also lectures at Midreshet Lindenbaum, MMY, Pardes and Orot College for Women.

Rachel Levmore is a Rabbinical Court Advocate, the Coordinator for Matters of Iggun and Get-Refusal through the Council of Young Israel Rabbis and the Jewish Agency for Israel, and the Chair of the Prenuptial Agreement Committee at the International Coalition for Agunah Rights. She is a Mozes S. Schupf Doctoral Fellow in Talmud at Bar Ilan University and the first woman to join the Agunah Unit of the Directorate of the Israeli Rabbinical Courts.

Adam Mintz is an adjunct professor in Jewish History at Queens College and the immediate past president of the New York Board of Rabbis. He lectures widely on a variety of topics in Jewish History and is the author of Jewish Spirituality and Divine Law. His weekly streaming video, This Week in Jewish History, is available on the internet. He served in the pulpit rabbinate and is one of the founders of Kehilat Rayim Ahuvim.

Sarah Rudolph has an MA in Jewish Education from the Azrieli Graduate School and is pursuing an MA in Bible at the Bernard Revel Graduate School. She completed the Graduate Program for Women in Advanced Talmudic Studies of Yeshiva University. She was a teaching fellow at the Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik Institute in Massachusetts and taught Talmud and Bible at the Stern Hebrew High School in Philadelphia.

Ben Sandler is a software developer at Goldman Sachs. He has an MS from New York University, a BA from Yeshiva University, and studied at Yeshivat Har Etzion in Israel. He is the president of the Mount Sinai Jewish Center in Washington Heights and is responsible for building the eruv there.

Shuli Sandler is a graduate of the Drisha Scholars Circle. She has a PsyD in Clinical Psychology from Long Island University. She lectures on a variety of Jewish topics throughout the tri-state area.

Yehuda Septimus is the Stanley A. and Barbara B. Rabin Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies and an instructor at Columbia University. He is also the rabbi of the Young Israel of North Woodmere. He has a BA in English Literature from Yeshiva University, an MA and PhD in Classical Jewish Literature and History from Yale University, and ordination from Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary.

David Silber is the Founder and Dean of Drisha Institute for Jewish Education. He received ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. He received the Covenant Award in 2000.

Erin Leib Smokler is pursuing a PhD in Philosophy and Religion at the University of Chicago’s Committee on Social Thought. She holds an MA from the University of Chicago and a BA from Harvard University. She has taught adult Jewish education throughout the DC and Chicago areas. Her writing has appeared in The New Republic, The New York Times Book Review, The Jerusalem Report, and The New York Jewish Week.

Mishael Zion is the co-author of the best-selling Israeli Haggadah HaLaila HaZeh, and of the new A Night to Remember: The Haggadah of Contemporary Voices. He is a Faculty Fellow at the Skirball Center for Adult Jewish Learning and studies at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School.