The key to the Tauber Program is our faculty, composed of our distinguished clergy and talented educators from around the Bay Area. Each is a scholar or exemplar in his or her field, a teacher and, just as important, a learner. Our goal is a faculty that works collaboratively to create exciting and truly meaningful courses. That also means collaborating with you, the student, to develop a program that, over the years, will work better and better to meet your needs.
IGAEL GURIN MALOUS
Igael Gurin Malous grew up in Belgium and Israel. He has a traditional Jewish background and studied in yeshiva for many years. As an adult, he has worked as a Jewish educator in a variety of institutions in Israel, Europe, and the United States. Igael served as the Educational Director of the World Union of Jewish Students and as the Assistant Director of the Conservative Movement’s Ramah Israel seminar. He now teaches in the Judaic studies department at the Jewish Community High School of the Bay in San Francisco.
TAMAR RABINOWITZ
Tamar Rabinowitz is originally from Cape Town, South Africa. She moved to Israel after high school and earned a BA in Jewish History and an MA in Jewish Education from Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Tamar was also a fellow in the Educators Program at the Pardes Institute. Tamar comes to San Francisco after having taught for seven years at the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School in Rockville, MD. She also taught in the Florence Melton program for Adults in Rockville MD and the DC area.
RABBI LAWRENCE KUSHNER
Lawrence Kushner is the Emanu-El Scholar. Prior to his move out to San Francisco, he was the Rabbiin- Residence at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York City. Before that, he served for twenty-eight years as the rabbi of Congregation Beth El in Sudbury, Massachusetts. He is the author of seventeen books including Honey from the Rock; God Was in This Place and I, i Did Not Know; Invisible Lines of Connection; Five Cities of Refuge, and has recently completed his first novel, Kabbalah: A Love Story. He enjoys biking and is trying to learn how to play the clarinet.
RABBI JANE LITMAN
Rabbi Jane Litman has served Conservative, Reconstructionist, Reform, and Gay Outreach congregations. She was a professor of religion and women’s studies at California State University at Northridge and taught at the University of Judaism and Loyola Marymount College. Her book Lifecycles 2: Jewish Women on Scriptural Themes in Contemporary Life, co-edited with Rabbi Debra Orenstein, won a number of awards. She obtained her rabbinical degree in 1988 from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association.
YISKAH ROSENFELD
Yiskah Rosenfeld has taught classes combining text study and creativity in the Jewish community for 18 years. An award-winning poet and scholar, her poems and essays appear in many publications including Lilith Magazine, Yentl's Revenge: The Next Wave of Jewish Feminism, Bridges, and Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia. She holds an MA degree in jurisprudence and social policy from UC Berkeley and an MFA in poetry from Mills College. Yiskah returns to the Bay Area from Philadelphia, where she studied at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and taught in the Jewish Studies department at Temple University.
SHALOM ROSENBERG
Shalom Rosenberg is a native New Yorker who moved to the Bay Area last year. He has been a Jewish Educator for the past decade and has taught in Jewish schools, camps, and organizations of all denominations on both coasts of the United States. In addition to teaching this Tauber course, Shalom is also the 6th Grade Lead Teacher at Emanu-El and the Edah Program Director and Youth Advisor at Congregation Netivot Shalom in Berkeley. Shalom graduated from Brooklyn College where he studied Film and Education. He was a member of the Ford Colloquium, an interdisciplinary branch of the Honors Academy and was also active in Hillel, Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity (Philanthropy Chairman and Pledge Master), HaTikvah Magazine (Editor in Chief), Excelsior Newspaper (Senior Editor), and the Jewish Film Society, which he founded in 1999. Shalom has a tremendous passion for film and taught two film classes at the Feast of Jewish Learning in Palo Alto in January 2010. Shalom also recently taught Jewish film classes to adults and children at Congregation Sha'ar Zahav, at Camp Tawonga's LGBT Family Weekend, and at Congregation Beth Am's Asilomar Learning Retreat.
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