A Project of ALEPH, the Alliance for Jewish Renewal
Bringing you TeleClasses of interest in Jewish Studies
The ALEPH Bet Midrash strives to bring you the very best classes and the very best people to lead and teach those classes. We are proud to have the following insrtuctors offering classes through our program (listed alphabetically):
Rabbi Phyllis Berman , an Eyshet Hazon (Woman of Vision)
has since 1991 been the Director of the Summer
Program at Elat Chayyim. She is also an inspirational
story-teller, midrash-maker, and leader of prayer
services. From 1985 to 2001 she was a board member
of P'nai Or/ ALEPH. She is the founding Director of the
Riverside Language Program, an intensive English
language school for adult legal immigrants and
refugees, as well as teacher-trainer for Counseling Learning Institutes. She co-authored Tales of Tikkun, Getting Into It, and with Rabbi Arthur Waskow, A Time for Every Purpose Under Heaven: The Jewish Life-Spiral as a Spiritual Path. BACK
Rabbi Shafir Lobb received smicha (ordination) from the
ALEPH Rabbinical program and now lives in North Canton,
Rabbi Daniel Siegel is the Director of Spiritual Resources
for ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal. He was the first
person to receive semicha from Rabbi Zalman
Schachter-Shalomi. Reb Daniel served two college
campuses the University of British Columbia and
Dartmouth College for a total of more than twenty years.
Together with his wife and partner, Hanna Tiferet, he
co-founded Or Shalom in Vancouver, BC, a vibrant
renewal synagogue. Reb Daniel is a certified mediator
who co-founded a successful mediation program at
Dartmouth College. He also serves as co-spiritual leader
of B’nai Or, Boston.
Reb Daniel is the editor of ALEPH’s Siddur Kol Koreh project and numerous teachings of Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, a teacher in the ALEPH Rabbinic Program, and the author of several articles including "Moon: White Sliver of Shechinah's Return," an essay on covenantal naming ceremonies for girls.
Jewish and intercultural families in northwest lower
Michigan.
Stacie is the Rabbinic Director of the Or Tzafon
Retreat Center, the Midwest Jewish center for the
study of Jewish mysticism, spiritual practice and
contemporary worship in northern Michigan.
Stacie teaches courses in religion, spirituality, writing and non -profit leadership at Northwestern Michigan College, where she helped found the non-profit leadership certificate program. Her recent consulting experience includes Bayview Association of the United Methodist Church, Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Women's Resource Center, Northwestern Michigan College, Leelanau Children's Center, Oryana Food Cooperative, Zonta Club, Munson Hospice and Palliative Care, the State of Michigan and public presentations on topics ranging from organizational change to communications skills.
She lives near the shores of Lake Michigan, in Suttons Bay, where she enjoys life with hubbetzin Karl, dog Lily and cat Midrash.
experience in spiritual leadership, human relations training,
interactive arts and teaching. He has served numerous
Jewish communities across North America and led
Shabbatonim for every Jewish denomination. He teaches at
Gratz College's "Melton Program", Spiritual Direction at the
Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, Interpersonal and
organizational Communication at Temple University, as well
as serving as a consultant and trainer for numerous Jewish
and other profit/non-profit organizations in the areas of
leadership, community building, money and values, Jewish
men's issues, creativity, and spirituality in the workplace.
He is a founding member of Playback Philadelphia theater, Shabbat Unplugged musical ensemble, the Institute for Contemporary Midrash, and is Co-Director of the Davenning Leaders Training Institute. He is an accomplished musician, singer and songwriter, with two CD's "Heart and Soul" and "Sanctuary" as well as Shabbat Unplugged's Pesach CD "A Night of Questions". He is also a contributing writer to a number of publications, and the author of "Offerings of the Heart: Jewish Values-Based Approaches to Money in Community".
