Dr. Kulp is co-founder of the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem where he has taught Talmud and halakhah for the last 20 years. He is the author of the recently published book Reconstructing the Talmud (Mechon Hadar, 2014) as well as the The Schechter Haggadah: Art, History and Commentary (Schechter Press, 2008). Beginning in 2001 and continuing through 2013, Dr. Kulp authored a commentary in English on the entire Mishnah, which served as the basis for the Mishnah Yomit project. In 2013 Dr. Kulp began the Daf Shevui program, the study of one daf of Talmud per week and has so far completed a commentary on Tractates Sukkah and Megillah and has begun work on Tractate Ketubot. Dr. Kulp was raised in Margate, New Jersey, where his family was active in the Conservative Movement. He spent his summers at Camp Ramah in the Poconos, Camp Ramah in Canada and for the last ten summers, he has served as the scholar-in-residence at Camp Ramah in New England. Dr. Kulp made aliyah in 1994 and currently lives in Modiin with his wife, Julie Zuckerman, and their four children. In his spare time, he is an avid triathlete and runner and has completed three Ironmans.

Rabbi Levy studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge University, was chair of the Program at Limmud conference and is an ex-director of NOAM. He received rabbinical ordination from Rabbi David Hartman in 2000. He has been the part-time rabbi of Kol Nefesh Masorti Synagogue, Britain’s first fully egalitarian traditional shul, since 2001. He teaches Practical Halacha.

Dr. Rothberg received his doctorate in Jewish Thought from the Hebrew University and his B.A. in Jewish Philosophy and Talmud from Bar Ilan University. Shaiya has also learned in the Conservative Yeshiva Kollel since it began, and earlier on at Machon Meir, Machon Pardes, Hamachon Hagavoah Letorah (Bar-Ilan’s yeshiva) and Machon Hartman. He teaches Theology, Kabbalah and Written and Oral Torah from Midrash to the Middle Ages. You can find some of Shaiya’s theology and interpretation at info.humanrightstorah.org.

Rabbi Cohen teaches Talmud, Midrash and Gender Studies at the Yeshiva. Shoshana is the educational director of ATZUM’s Takum, a social justice beit midrash housed at the CY. Shoshana has completed advanced studies at Hebrew University, Matan and the Hartman Institute and has semikha (Rabbinic ordination) from Rabbi Daniel Landes. Lecturing in Hebrew and in English she has been on the faculty of the Drisha Institute, the Hartman Girl’s High School, Yeshivat Talpiot and Yeshivat Hadar.

Rabbi Mordechai (Mitchell) Silverstein is a senior faculty member at the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem where he teaches Talmud, Poskim, Halacha, and Midrash. Before making aliyah in 1988 he served as the rabbi of Congregation Shomray Hadath in Elmira, New York. In 2010-11, he served as the sabbatical rabbi and again in 2015-16 as interim rabbi at Moriah Congregation in Deerfield, Illinois. In 2009 he was the scholar in residence for the Chicago region of USCJ (United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism). Rabbi Silverstein is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania where he served as president of the Hillel Foundation. He graduated from the Jewish Theological Seminary with a MA and rabbinical ordination. He also received Smichat Rabbanut under the auspices of Yeshiva University and did advanced studies in Talmud at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Rabbi Silverstein is the leading expert in Midrash Tehillim. He is a native of Philadelphia, growing up in Willingboro, New Jersey, and is married to Shira, a Jerusalem native, who is a geneticist at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. Together, they have five children and nine grandchildren, all of whom live in Israel.

Rabbi Roth is Louis Finkelstein Professor of Talmud and Jewish Law at the Jewish Theological Seminary. Rabbi Roth formerly served as Dean of the Rabbinical School at JTS and Chair of the Rabbinical Assembly’s Committee on Jewish Law and Standards. He gives shiurim during his frequent visits to Israel.

Vered Hollander-Goldfarb received her M.A. in Judaic Studies and Tanach from the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University and studied at Bar-Ilan University and the Jewish Theological Seminary. Before making aliyah, she taught at Ramaz School and Stern College in New York. She teaches Tanach and Medieval Commentators.

Rabbi Shlomo Zacharow is Chairman of the Israel Rabbinical Assembly Law Committee, Director of the Masorti Movement Bet Din for Divorces and works in Rabbinic development for Masorti Olami. At the Conservative Yeshiva, he teaches Halakha and Pos’kim (The development of Jewish Law). He heads the Sacred Skills track and he himself is certified by the Israeli Rabbanut as a Mashgiah Kashrut and Shohet (ritual slaughterer). Rabbi Zacharow received his MA and Rabbinic ordination from the Schechter Rabbinical Seminary and now serves on its Board of Trustees. He has an additional investiture from the Beit Midrash for Israeli Rabbis, affiliated with The Shalom Hartman Institute and HaMidrasha at Oranim.

Born in NYC, raised in Jerusalem, married to Eitan and mother of five. Spent the past two years in New York as a Tanakh and Hebrew teacher at SAR high school, and teacher in the Drisha summer program. Taught Tanakh and Machshevet (Jewish Philosophy) and was head of Judaic studies in Tali Beit Chinuch (a public-secular high school in Jerusalem) since 2005. Mentored teachers in Judaic studies through the Hartman Institute (Be'eri program) and teachers-in-training in David Yellin College of Education. Over the past 10 years was also involved in writing curriculum as well as the Matriculation exam ("bagrut") in Jewish philosophy. Has an MA in Tanakh from Hebrew University, graduate of Revivim program, where she also works as a teacher and mentor.

Yardén Raber was born in Buenos Aires in the midst of a traditional Jewish family. He studied in diverse batei midrash and Jewish academic institutions both in Israel and in Argentina, where he also served in various Conservative communities until he made alia in 2012. Yardén studied Talmud an Ancient Jewish Literature at Tel Aviv University, where he currently works as a researcher of ancient Jewish writings from the Cairo Genizah. In addition, he is currently completing his rabbinical ordination at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, and is a faculty member at the Conservative Yeshiva since 2015. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife and their two children.

Ilana Kurshan is the author of If All the Seas Were Ink (St. Martin's Press, 2017) and Why is This Night Different From All Other Nights (Schocken, 2005). She has a degree in History of Science from Harvard and in English literature from Cambridge, and she has worked in literary publishing both in New York and in Jerusalem -- as a translator, a foreign rights agent, and as the Books Editor of Lilith Magazine. She has translated books of Jewish studies by Ruth Calderon, Benjamin Lau, and Micah Goodman, as well as novels, short stories, and children's picture books.

Yiscah Smith is a Jewish educator, guest speaker & published author. She teaches Jewish spirituality in Jerusalem and online & provides spiritual guidance for authentic living.

Gila grew up in Kvuzat Yavne, a religious kibbutz near Ashdod. She studied Talmud and Hebrew Literature at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and received her doctorate from Hebrew University in 2009. Her main focus is on the study of Midrash Aggadah. She teaches at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies and at the Hebrew University. Her edition of Midrash Hadash Al-Hatorah was published on 2013. Gila lives in Jerusalem with her husband Ronnie and their three children.

Saralee holds an MA in Jewish Education from JTS and a Ba’alat T’fillah Diploma from EAJL. She is the Hazanit at Moreshet Yisrael and for High Holidays at Beth Shalom of the Blue Hills (Boston, MA). She teaches Nusach/T’amei HaMikra at Machon Shechter, the Conservative Yeshiva, and JTS in Israel, and sings monthly at the Beit Alicia Rosh Hodesh Program. Saralee comes from Minneapolis, Minnesota and made aliya 24 years ago. Residing in Jerusalem, Saralee is married to Rabbi\Dr. Paul Shrell-Fox. They have 5 children and one grandchild.

David Greenstein serves as rabbi of Congregation Shomrei Emunah, Montclair, NJ. He has taught Talmud and Zohar in rabbinical seminaries in North America as well as at the Conservative Yeshiva and at Neve Schechter in Tel Aviv. His book, Roads to Utopia: The Walking Stories of the Zohar, was published by Stanford University Press in 2014. He has been chosen as the Daniel Jeremy Silver Fellow at Harvard University for academic year 2018 - 2019.

Rabbi Alan Iser received his rabbinic ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary and has a Masters degree in Near Eastern Civilizations and Languages from Harvard. He is a former pulpit rabbi and Hillel director. He currently is an Adjunct Professor of Theology at St. Joseph’s University, Villanova University and St. Charles Borromeo Seminary.

Dr. Rachel Adelman (Ph.D. Hebrew University of Jerusalem), is currently an assistant professor of Hebrew Bible in the rabbinical program at Hebrew College in Boston. Her first book, The Return of the Repressed: Pirqe deRabbi Eliezer and the Pseudepigrapha (Brill, 2009), was based on her doctoral dissertation; her second major book, The Female Ruse: Women’s Deception and Divine Sanction in the Hebrew Bible (Sheffield-Phoenix Press, 2015), resulted from her work as a research associate in the Women’s Studies in Religion Program at Harvard Divinity School. When not writing books, articles, or divrei torah, it is poetry that flows from her pen.

Ittay Flescher is an innovative media educator with an engaging teaching style. He has presented at on the subject of Israel through the Arts at dozens of schools, public events and Limmud conferences around the world. After 15 years of high school and adult education experience in Australia, Ittay made Aliyah in 2018 with his family to pursue his dream of raising Hebrew speaking children. Ittay is passionate about telling stories, interfaith dialogue, human rights, film and music. Ittay has been known to read his eight-year-old daughter the UN Declaration of Human Rights as a bedtime story. His dream is to spend a year attending every Limmud conference across the globe, engaging with the world’s greatest Jewish thinkers.

Bex Stern Rosenblatt is a M.A. candidate in Tanakh at Bar Ilan University. She is the founder of Havruta Tel Aviv, an organization that facilitates guided pair-learning of the Tanakh. At the Yeshiva, Bex teaches Tanakh, using the techniques of close-reading, theater, feminist readings, and traditional commentators. After finishing her B.A. in History and German at Williams College, Bex received a Fulbright Grant to Austria. She has studied at the Conservative Yeshiva and Bina Jerusalem.