Shoshana Cohen

Shoshana Cohen is incoming coordinator of the Talmud department at the Hartman Midrashiya High School for Girls in Jerusalem.
She is a  fellow in the  Hartman Institiute's Seder Nashim  Beit Midrash for Gender and Judaism and completing an MA at Hebrew University in Ancient Jewish History,  She is also a graduate of Brandeis University and of Matan's Advanced Talmud Institute and the Melamdim Program for teacher training. Shoshana teaches Talmud at Hadar.

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Rabbi Miles Cohen

Rabbi Miles Cohen is senior lecturer of Professional and Pastoral Skills at The Jewish Theological Seminary. Rabbi Cohen teaches synagogue skills, such as chanting the Torah, Megillot, and prayers of the weekday, Shabbat, holiday services, and special life-cycle occasions. He has been teaching these skills to JTS rabbinical students and education students for over ten years. He also specializes in Hebrew grammar, which he teaches in both the Hebrew Language and Bible Departments, and in Masoretic studies. Rabbi Cohen will teach Basic Torah Reading at Yeshivat Hadar.

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Steven Exler

Steven Exler is a third-year rabbinical student at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, an Open Orthodox Rabbinical School, on a Wexner Graduate Fellowship.  He graduated Brandeis University with a B.A. in Biology, including honors research on a mouse model of leukemia, and completed an M.A. in Bible from Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies. Steven has learned at Yeshivat Har Etzion, and more recently at Yeshivat Maale Gilboa, where he also taught occasionally and mentored post-high school students.  He currently interns at United Orthodox Synagogues of Houston, and is a co-director of Meorot, a Modern Orthodox young adult discussion and lecture series.  He has taught in many synagogues around the country. He is on the leadership team of MigdalOr, a new independent minyan in Washington Heights. Steven will teach Tanakh at Yeshivat Hadar.

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Eric Fisher

Eric Fisher practices commercial litigation with the law firm of Morgenstern Fisher & Blue. He is a former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and a former law clerk to the Supreme Court of Israel.  Eric is a graduate of Yale University (B.A., Religious Studies) and Columbia Law School, and has studied at Yeshivat Hamivtar in Efrat, Israel.  Eric has been active as a teacher in the adult education program at the Conservative Synagogue Adath Israel of Riverdale. Eric will teach Shabbat in the Ten Commandments at Yeshivat Hadar.

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Rachel Friedrichs

Rachel Friedrichs teaches Tanakh and Jewish Thought in Jerusalem for Young Judaea and Siach - both pluralist, co-ed, gap year programs. She recently completed the Pardes Educators Program, simultaneously earning her MA in Jewish Education at Hebrew University, and has a BA from Brandeis University with a concentration in Intellectual History. Rachel also spent time studying at Midreshet Moriah in Jerusalem, and at NYU’s campus in the Czech Republic. Upon her graduation from Brandeis, Rachel participated in the Jewish Teacher Corps, a program that placed her in Phoenix, AZ to teach and mentor at the Jess Schwartz Community High School; before moving to Israel she also taught at a Solomon Schechter school in New York.  She has also led beit midrash programs at Brandeis, worked as a teacher at Camp Ramah, and taught occasionally for Kehilat Hadar. Rachel will teach Bible at Hadar, with a focus on medieval commentaries. 

Rabbi Shai Held

Rabbi Shai Held serves as Scholar-in-Residence at Kehilat Hadar, teaches at the Jewish Theological Seminary, and is a Jacob Javits Fellow in Religion at Harvard University. A Wexner Graduate Fellow, Shai was Director of Education and Conservative Rabbinic Advisor at Harvard Hillel. There, he helped create the Netivot Fellowship, a program which provided Jewish undergraduates with an immersion in Jewish learning, personal growth, leadership education, and meaningful connection to Israel. A graduate of Harvard, he has taught for institutions such as the Drisha Institute, Hebrew College, Meah, UJA-CJP, and the Rabbinic Training Institute. Shai will lead the Mahshavah curriculum at Yeshivat Hadar.

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Rabbi James Jacobson-Maisels

Rabbi James Jacobson-Maisels teaches Jewish thought and mysticism at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem. James holds a BA in Philosophy and Judaic Studies from Brown University and an M.St. in Modern Jewish Studies from Balliol College the University of Oxford. He studied at the Conservative Yeshivah, the Hartman Institute of Jewish Studies, and in the Advanced Learning Seminar at Pardes and received rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Daniel Landes in Jerusalem. He is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Chicago in Jewish Studies specializing in Jewish mysticism. He has taught in a variety of settings in America and Israel on Judaism and Jewish Mysticism. He hopes to integrate his study and practice and to help teach and live Judaism as a spiritual discipline. James will teach Mahshavah and an elective on spritual practices at Yeshivat Hadar.

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Shmuel Kadosh

Shmuel Kadosh is graduating from New York University School of Law this spring, where he is an editor on the Law Review. This upcoming year, Shmuel will be working as an attorney for the New York State Attorney General's office.  He is on the leadership team of MigdalOr, a new independent minyan in Washington Heights, where he runs the Torah study program.  Shmuel has lectured on a variety of Jewish law topics around New York and other US cities, including at the Hadar Beit Midrash. Shmuel will teach Conversion, Apostasy, and the Nature of Jewish Identity at Yeshivat Hadar.

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Rabbi Amy Kalmanofsky

Rabbi Amy Kalmanofsky graduated from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical
College and received her PhD in Bible and Ancient Semitic Languages at the
Jewish Theological Seminary where she is currently an assistant professor. Her research interests include feminist and literary criticism of the Bible and biblical theology. She is a contributor to the forthcoming Women's Torah Commentary. Her articles "Their Heart Cried Out to God: Gender and Prayer in the Book of Lamentations" and "Horror and Childbirth in the Biblical Prophets" will appear, respectively, in the volume A Question of Sex:  Gender and Difference in the Hebrew Bible and the Journal of Biblical Interpretation. She is finishing her book Terror All Around:  The Rhetoric of Horror in the Book of Jeremiah to be published by T&T Clark/Continuum. Last year, she received the List College Teacher of the Year award.  Amy will teach an elective on Parashat Hashavua at Yeshivat Hadar.

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Rabbi Elie Kaunfer

Rabbi Elie Kaunfer is the executive director of Mechon Hadar. He was ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary, where he also completed an MA in liturgy. A Wexner Graduate Fellow, Elie is a co-founder of Kehilat Hadar, an egalitarian community committed to spirited traditional prayer, study and social action. Elie is on the advisory board of STAR: Synagogue Transformation and Renewal and is a member of Synagogue 3000's working group on emergent sacred communities. He has taught for the Wexner Heritage Foundation and was a co-founder of LimmudNY. A graduate of Harvard, he is a former corporate fraud investigator and analyst at Morgan Stanley. The Forward Newspaper recently named him one of 50 Top Jewish Leaders. Elie will teach a liturgy skills elective and lead the prayer experience/learning at Yeshivat Hadar.

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Sara Labaton

Sara Labaton is a 5th-year doctoral candidate in the Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at NYU, where she is focusing on medieval biblical exegesis. She was a Lauder fellow in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, where she taught Judaic studies to female high-school and college students, and ran seminars and camps for Jews across Germany. Sara was a community educator at Genesis at Brandeis University, and this past summer, she served as an educator for the American delegation to the JDC/Lauder camp in Szarvas, Hungary. She served as a core faculty member at the Hadar Beit Midrash at the JCC in 2004-5. She is a graduate of Columbia University and has studied at Midreshet Lindenbaum and the Drisha Institute. Sara will lead the Bible and Exegesis curriculum at Yeshivat Hadar.

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Nina Redl

Nina Redl received her first graduate education in theology, philosophy and comparative religion at Munich University, Germany. In the course of her studies she spent time at Cape Town University South Africa and Dublin, Ireland. She received an MA in Jewish Philosophy from the Jewish Theological Seminary, where she is currently a PhD candidate working on a thesis that will combine Talmudic reasoning and Jewish ethics. She also is also enrolled in the JTS rabbinical school. Nina currently teaches as an adjunct lecturer for Rutgers University New Jersey in Jewish Studies, for JTS in Jewish Philosophy and for Munich University in general Jewish Studies and comparative religion. She developed the first intensive summer program in Jewish Studies for Munich University in which she taught Talmud and Rabbinics as well as Philosophy. Nina will teach Mahshavah at Yeshivat Hadar.

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Jason Rubenstein

Jason Rubenstein is finishing his second year as a rabbinical student and graduate student in Talmud at the Jewish Theological Seminary. An alumnus of the kollels of Ramah Wisconsin and Yeshivat Ma'ale Gilbo'a, Jason has worked as a counselor-educator for the Nesiya Institute each of the past three years, and has taught at both Kehilat Hadar Shabbat services and the Hadar Beit Midrash. This summer Jason will be the Sho'el Umeshiv (a resource during Talmud seder) and is organizing the Yeshiva's group process programming.

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Rabbi Ben Skydell

Rabbi Ben Skydell teaches Talmud and Chumash and is the Director of Religious Guidance at North Shore Hebrew Academy. He has ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. Ben will teach Hasidut at Yeshivat Hadar.

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Rabbi Ethan Tucker

Rabbi Ethan Tucker is a co-founder of Mechon Hadar: An Institute for Prayer, Personal Growth and Jewish Study.  He teaches Talmud and Halakhah in the Machon's summer Yeshiva, Yeshivat Hadar, and is also a faculty member at the Drisha Institute for Jewish Education, where he teaches Talmud and Halakhah in the Scholars Circle.  Rabbi Tucker was ordained by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel after years of study at Yeshivat Ma'ale Gilboa and earned a PhD in Talmud and Rabbinics from the Jewish Theological Seminary.  He is currently a Fellow with the Harold Grinspoon Foundation and is a co-founder of New York's Kehilat Hadar.  Ethan will lead the Talmud curriculum at Yeshivat Hadar.

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