Scholars in Residence
Rabbi Professor Adam Ferziger
Scholar in Residence - Pesach 2027, Neve Ilan
Rabbi Professor Adam Ferziger is an internationally recognized scholar of modern Jewish history and religious life. He holds the Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch Chair in the Israel & Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History & Contemporary Jewry at Bar-Ilan University. He studied with Rav Aharon Lichtenstein at Yeshivat Har Etzion (Gush) and at the YU/Gruss Institute in Jerusalem, and received his rabbinical ordination from RIETS/YU. He is the author of multiple books, including the award winning Agents of Change: American Jews and the Transformation of Israeli Judaism (NYU Press 2025). He and his wife, Dr. Naomi Ferziger, moved to Israel in 1987. They brought up their family in Kfar-Sava, and now live in Jerusalem.
Rav Itiel Oron
Scholar in Residence - Pesach 2027, Hacienda Forest View Hotel
Rav Itiel Oron is the Rabbi of Kehilat HaRamban in Katamon, Jerusalem. He is a senior faculty member at Midreshet Lindenbaum and teaches in various adult and post-high school learning programs. He is an alumnus of Yeshivat Har Etzion, where he studied for 10 years, receiving Semicha from the Chief Rabbinate of Israel and studying Jewish Philosophy and Education at Herzog College in Gush Etzion. Rav Oron was previously the director of Jewish education at the International School for Holocaust Studies in Yad Vashem, Rosh Kollel of the Torah Mitzion Kollel of Greater Washington, and the Rosh Beit Midrash of SAR High School in New York. He is a member of the Tzohar rabbinical organization.
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