2023

Meg Adler, Associate Director of Bay Area Programs at Camp Tawonga, San Francisco, CA; Andrew Davies, Co-founder and Chief Improvising Officer of The Bible Players, Philadelphia, PA; Eliana Light, Founder and Head T’fillahsopher of The Light Lab, Durham, NC; Jory Hanselman Mayschak, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of BaMidbar, Albuquerque, NM; and Yehudah Webster, Program Director and Faculty Member of The Inside Out Wisdom and Action (IOWA) Project at The Kirva Institute, Los Angeles, CA.

 

 

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2022

Jonathan Shmidt Chapman, founder and theater artist, The K’ilu Company, Northbrook, IL; Rabbi Tzvi Hametz, director of educational technology and STEAM innovation at Melville J. Berman Hebrew Academy in Rockville, Maryland; Lisa Sheps, curriculum innovation and mentorship lead of the Teacher Performance and Learning Studio, Toronto, Ontario, CA; Yoshi Silverstein, founder and executive director of Mitsui Collective, Shaker Heights, OH; and Liana Wertman, founder and executive director of The Torah Studio, Los Angeles, CA.

 

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2021

Rabbi Tiferet Berenbaum, Rabbi of Congregational Learning and Programming at Temple Beth Zion in Brookline, MA; Alana Rifkin Gelnick, Associate Principal of the Early Learning Center (ELC) at SAR Academy in Riverdale, NY; Aryeh Laufer, Head of STEM at The Idea School in Tenafly, NJ; Rabbanit Leah Sarna, Associate Director of Education and Director of High School Programs at the Drisha Institute for Jewish Education in Riverdale, NY, and Tony J. Westbrook, Jr., activist, a freelance Jewish life consultant, and the Assistant Director of Hillel Assistant Director of Hillel at Washington University in St. Louis.

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2020

Rabbi Jessy Dressin, Executive Director of Repair the World Baltimore, in Baltimore, Maryland; Jessie Gindea, Associate Director: Abroad Experiences at KAHAL: Your Jewish Home Abroad and Senior Educator for Base Miami, in Miami, Florida; Rabbi Rachel Isaacs, spiritual leader of Beth Israel Congregation in Waterville, Maine; Rabbi Jordan David Soffer, Head of School at Striar Hebrew Academy in Sharon, Massachusetts; and Laynie Soloman, Director of National Learning and a faculty member at SVARA: A Traditionally Radical Yeshiva, in New York, NY.

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2019

Rabbi Matthew Dreffin, Director of Education at the Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life (ISJL) in Jackson, Mississippi, Natan Kuchar, Director of Edah in Berkeley, California, Na’amit Sturm Nagel, English Teacher and Associate Director of The Shalhevet Institute at Shalhevet High School in Los Angeles, California, Shara Peters, Head of School at Adat Ari El Day School in Valley Village, California and Beverly Socher-Lerner, Founding Director of Makom Community in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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2018

Rabbi Adina Allen, Co-Founder and Creative Director of The Jewish Studio Project (JSP) in Berkeley, California, Maiya Chard-Yaron, Executive Director of Texas Hillel in Austin, Texas, Ilana Gleicher-Bloom, Founding Vision Director of Mensch Academy at Mishkan Chicago in Chicago, IL, Oren Kaunfer, Madrich Ruchani (Spiritual Educator/Director of Jewish Life) at JCDS, Boston’s Jewish Community Day School in Watertown, MA, Hannah Kearney, Director of Havayah, The Teen Community at Temple Beth Elohim in Wellesley, MA.

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2017

Aliza Goodman, Director of Professional Development at The iCenter in Chicago, IL, Rabbi Alissa Forrest Miller, Associate Rabbi at Temple Isaiah in Lafayette, California, Rabbi Lev Meirowitz Nelson, Director of Education at T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights in New York, NY, Yoni Stadlin, Founding Director of Eden Village Camp in Putnam Valley, New York, Jane Tuv, Director of Programs for Russian-speaking Children and Families at JCC Manhattan’s Generation R Department in New York, NY.

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2016

Rabbi Adam Greenwald, Director of the Louis & Judith Miller Introduction to Judaism Program at American Jewish University in Los Angeles, CA; Rachel R. Harari, Department Chair and Teacher of English Language Arts at Magen David Yeshivah High School in Brooklyn, NY, Alex Jakubowski, founder and Executive Director of KAHAL: Your Jewish Home Abroad in Chicago, IL, Leah M. Kahn, the Rabbi Martin Ballonoff Memorial Senior Jewish Educator at Berkeley Hillel in Berkeley, CA, Greg Kellner, Director of the URJ 6 Points Sci-Tech Academy in Byfield, MA.

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2015

Erica Belkin Allen, Assistant Director of Congregational Education at Chizuk Amuno Congregation in Baltimore; Debbie Yunker Kail, Executive Director of Hillel at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ; Rabbi Jason Rubenstein, Dean of Students at Yeshivat Hadar in New York; Rabbi Devin Maimon Villareal, Jewish Studies Department Chair and a teacher at deToledo High School in West Hills, CA; and Lea Winkler, general studies teacher and STEM Coordinator at Cohen Hillel Academy in Marblehead, MA.

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2014

Rabbi Jordan Bendat-Appell, Founder and Director of the Center for Jewish Mindfulness in Chicago, and Program Director for the Institute for Jewish Spirituality in New York; Rabbi Michael Bitton, Director of Educational Technology and Judaic Studies teacher at Magen David Yeshivah High School in Brooklyn, NY; Talya S. Gillman, a Jewish educator and social justice advocate pursuing her M.A. in Transformational Leadership in Seattle; Oren J. Massey, Executive Director of Edah in Berkeley, CA; and Rabbi Yigal Sklarin, a Talmud and Jewish History educator at The Ramaz Upper School in New York.

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2013

Risa Alyson Cooper, Executive Director of Shoresh Jewish Environmental Programs in Toronto*; Rabbi Lizzi Heydemann, Founder of Mishkan Chicago*; Rabbi Yechiel Hoffman, Director of Youth Learning and Engagement at Temple Beth Am in Los Angeles*; Rabbi Todd Markley, Associate Rabbi at Temple Beth Shalom in Needham, MA*; and Yonatan Rosner, a Judaic Studies teacher and Director of the T’fillah Kehillah Institute at New Community Jewish High School in West Hills, CA*.

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2012

Maya Bernstein, Strategic Design Officer at UpStart Bay Area in San Francisco*; Rabbi Eliav Bock, Founding Director of Ramah Outdoor Adventure at Ramah in the Rockies in Denver*; Rabbi Nicole Greninger, Director of Education at Temple Isaiah in Lafayette, CA*; Rabbi Barry Kislowicz, Head of School at Fuchs Mizrachi School in Beachwood, OH*; and Sarah Lefton, Founding Executive Director of G-dcast in San Francisco, CA*.

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2011

Rabbi Marc Baker, Head of School at Gann Academy – The New Jewish High School of Greater Boston*; Robert Beiser, Campus/JConnect Repair the World Director at Hillel at the University of Washington in Seattle*; Anna Hartman, Director of Early Childhood Education at Greenfield Hebrew Academy in Atlanta*; Gilah Kletenik, Congregational Scholar at Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun in New York*; and, Rabbi Shira Koch Epstein, Associate Rabbi at Congregation Beth Elohim in Brooklyn, NY*.

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