Institute: Staff & Leadership
We’re dedicated to building global consciousness through experiential education.
A B O U T
Our programs seek to re-establish the lost link to the history of the Jewish people throughout the world by discovering and sharing the noble and creative story of Jewish life around the globe
Kivunim Staff
Kivunim also has dozens of part-time lecturers from both Israel and around the world.
Each year students learn from and meet with academic and community luminaries such as: Yasmine Abu Noor, Said Abu-Shakrah, Dr. Amal El-Sana Ahjooj, Honorable André Azoulay, Dr. Clinton Bailey, Gershon Baskin, El Mehdi Boudra, Dr. Ruth Calderon, Rabbi Haim Casas, Maxim Delchev, Rabbi Yitz Greenberg, Kamal Hachkar, Dr. Susannah Heschel, Dr. Nevin Naar, Chief Rabbi Gabriel Negrin, Rabbi Pinhas Punturello, Dr. Sarab Abu Rabia, Muzzy Rosenblatt, Rabbi Jackie Sebag and many more.
Without the leadership, consultation and inspiration of the people below, (some no longer with us) Kivunim would not be more than a dream:
Board of Directors
Stefan Malter, Chair
Abby Doft
Jill Golub ('13)
Rabbi Edward Schecter
William Yotive
Peter Geffen, ex officio
Honorary Advisory Board
Dr. David Ariel, ז’׳ל • Dr. Lewis Bernstein • David Broza • Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove • Rabbi Yitz Greenberg • Professor Susannah Heschel • Rabbi Rolando Matalon • Dr. John S. Ruskay • Dr. Robert Sherman • Dr. Anita Weiner
Inspiration
Frederic Brenner • Dr. Ruth Calderon • Rabbi Samuel Geffen, ז’׳ל • Emanuel Gruss, ז’׳ל • Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel,ז’׳ל • Mollie Kessler, ז’׳ל • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. ז’׳ל • King Mohammed V of Morocco, ז’׳ל • Dr. Rebecca Shamoon Shanok , ז’׳ל • Alan B. Slifka, ז’׳ל • Dr. Eugene Weiner, ז’׳ל
