She received her BA in Biology from Yeshiva University, and she was a Golding Scholar at the Benjamin N. Hecht-Koller is a graduate of the Bruriah Scholars Program in Advanced Talmud Studies at Midreshet Lindenbaum. She is a founding member of the Orthodox Leadership Project and was a fellow at the Paideia Institute of Jewish Studies in Stockholm. She has taught Talmud and comparative ethics for many years, most recently at SAR High School.
Shira Hecht-Koller is Director of Education at 929, previously served as the Director or Communal Engagement at Drisha and the coordinator of Drisha’s Dr. Hartman is a founder of Congregation Shira Hadasha in Jerusalem. She is currently finishing a book on male trauma and shame. She is the author of Are You Not a Man of God?: Devotion, Betrayal, and Social Criticism in Jewish Tradition Feminism Encounters Jewish Tradition: Resistance and Accommodation and Appropriately Subversive: Modern Mothers in Traditional Religions as well as of numerous articles. Tova Hartman is Dean of Humanities at Ono Academic College, the largest private college in Israel, established to foster inclusiveness and multicultural education. She has a BA from the University of Chicago in the History and Philosophy of Science and a JD from NYU School of Law. She studied in the Drisha Scholars Circle as well as at other programs in Israel and Boston, and has taught at several New York area synagogues and Hillels. She practiced commercial litigation at a large law firm, and completed a judicial clerkship in the Southern District of New York. “Pardes’ new joint program with the Rabbinical School of Hebrew College is an incredible opportunity for passionate, invested individuals to become exceptional rabbinic educators.Miriam Gedwiser is a faculty member at Drisha. “Pardes is thrilled to expand its longstanding partnership with Hebrew College to include rabbinical students,” said Aviva Golbert, director of the Pardes Center for Jewish Educators. Students will participate in student-teaching opportunities at Jewish day schools in North America. They will also have access to seminars on Jewish history, spirituality, conflict resolution, Jewish thought and Israel education, as well as one-on-one mentoring, career coaching, job placement assistance and alumni support. “This will raise the bar for teaching in North American Jewish day schools and encourage more talented and inspiring educators to apply for the highly successful Pardes Day School Educators Program in conjunction with the Shoolman Graduate School.”Īt Pardes, students will study Jewish texts and ideas, participate in Hebrew language ulpan and take advantage of holistic education courses preparing them to become 21st-century Jewish educators.
“I am delighted that a new cadre of rabbinic leaders will emerge from this innovative Pardes Institute and Hebrew College collaboration with a focus on educational leadership, a deep immersion in Jewish text and an expertise in Jewish day school pedagogy and practice,” said Rabbi Michael Shire, dean of the Shoolman Graduate School of Jewish Education at Hebrew College. They will earn a master’s of Jewish education and a certificate in Jewish day school education from the Shoolman Graduate School of Jewish Education at Hebrew College, a certificate of advanced Jewish studies from the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies and rabbinic ordination from the Hebrew College Rabbinical School. Through this joint program, rabbi-educators will complete their education in six years rather than seven. Having students learning in the Pardes Day School Educators Program will be an ideal springboard into rabbinical school, and we believe the combination of institutions will produce rabbis who have a profound impact on the American Jewish landscape.” “We are very excited about our partnership with Pardes,” said Rabbi Dan Judson, dean of the Rabbinical School of Hebrew College. “Our institutions share much in common, including a deep commitment to text learning alongside a pluralistic outlook. Set to launch in fall 2019, the six-year program will include a two-year teacher training program in Jerusalem, where students will study in the Pardes Day School Educators Program, followed by four years in Greater Boston at Hebrew College’s Rabbinical School.