Limmud NY

Sarah Chandler serves as the Director of Earth Based Spiritual Practice for Hazon's Adamah Farm at Isabella Freedman. She is a Jewish experiential educator, community activist, and spiritual leader. She has her M.A. in Jewish Communal and Experiential Education and Hebrew Bible from the Jewish Theological Seminary. Sarah is a student of Kohenet: The Hebrew Priestess Institute, IJS's Jewish Mindfulness Teacher Training, and serves on the Green... Read More →

Yehoshua Engelman is the co-founder and former rabbi and director of Yakar Tel-Aviv community. He taught at HaKotel and Othniel Hesder Yeshivot, and at Hebrew University Beit Midrash, Maaleh Film School, Kolot, and many other adult-education programs. Yehoshua is also an accomplished and widely heard composer of music to Jewish-Israeli texts and is a practicing psychotherapist. His book of Torah essays, informed by his psychoanalytic experience... Read More →

Rabba Yaffa Epstein serves as the Director of Education, North America for the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies. She received Rabbinic Ordination from Yeshivat Maharat and holds a Law Degree from Bar-Ilan University. She has studied at the Pardes Kollel, the Advanced Talmud Institute at Matan and the Talmud Department of Hebrew University. Yaffa has been a teacher of Talmud, Jewish law, and Liturgy at Pardes for over a decade, and has served as... Read More →

Ezra Weinberg is identified through his work as a rabbi, teacher, song leader, dance instructor, peace-builder, and environmental activist. He is a musician and skilled leader of prayer in a variety of denominational settings. He is a teacher of multifaith education at Fairleigh Dickinson University. As a teacher of conflict transformation, Ezra draws upon an experiential model of learning infused with the ancient wisdom of the Jewish calendar... Read More →