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Shimon Arbel
Director General
arbel@schechter.ac.il

Mr. Shimon Arbel is the Director General of the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies. Shimon grew up in the Conservative Movement in Canada and made aliyah in 1973. He has a B.A. in Jewish Studies and an M.A. in Contemporary Jewry from the Hebrew University. He is an active member of Ramot Zion synagogue in Jerusalem and his children study at TALI schools and are active in Noam.

Shimon worked for fifteen years at the Hebrew University in public relations and development, serving as Executive Vice President of the Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University and as Executive Director of the Board of Governors. In recent years, he has served as Executive Director of the Fulbright Foundation in Tel Aviv.

 

Linda Price
Director of Communications
pr@schechter.ac.il


Linda Price is a veteran publicist who has worked for a number of public institutions in Jerusalem and later founded the public relations firm, Linda.Ink, before joining the Schechter Institute in 1996. She earned a B.A. in International Relations and History (1976) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and an M.A. in Communications (1981) from Temple University, Philadelphia. She lives in Jerusalem with her husband, Larry, a filmmaker, their three children, Yehuda, Abi, and Amalia, and their mutt, Ziggy.

 

Eitan Chikli
Executive Director, TALI Education Fund
eitchikli@tali.org.il


Rabbi Eitan Chikli has been the Executive Director of the TALI Education Fund since 1994. He is an ordained rabbi in the Conservative Movement. He previously served as the Director of Camp Ramah in Israel, as the Educational Director of Kibbutz Hanaton's Education Center and as an officer in the Israel Defense Forces.

Rabbi Chikli is a Wexner-Israel Fellow [2001] graduate of the Master in Public Administration Program of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and has an M.A. in Jewish Studies from the Schechter Institute for Jewish Studies and a B.A. in International Relations and Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies from the Hebrew University. He is studying towards a D.H.L. (doctor of Hebrew Letters) in Jewish Education.

Rabbi Chikli was born in Tunisia and immigrated to Israel from France at the age of 19. He is married with 3 children.

 

Alexander Even-Chen
Dean, Graduate School of Advanced Jewish Studies

aevenchen@schechter.ac.il


Dr. Even-Chen is a lecturer in Jewish Philosophy at the Schechter Institute. He has a Ph.D. in Jewish Thought from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and was ordained as a Conservative Rabbi by the Schechter Institute. He is a member of the Inter-religious Coordinating Council in Israel and of the executive committee of the Rabbinical Assembly in Israel.

 

Harvey Meirovich
Dean, Rabbinical School
ravharvey@schechter.org.il

 

Rabbi Dr. Harvey Meirovich is the Dean of the Rabbinical School. Rabbi Meirovich has served as a pulpit rabbi and teacher in Canada, England, Russia and Australia. He has published numerous articles and books on the historical and theological aspects of the Conservative Movement. Since his aliyah to Israel in 1989 he has been a lecturer at several Israeli academic institutions.

 

 

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