Dr. Shira Berkovits is a behavioral psychologist, attorney, and author of the forthcoming book, Preventing and Responding to Child Sexual Abuse: A Policy Guide for Synagogue Professionals and Lay Leaders. She lectures, trains, and consults on issues of child protection and boundary violations for Jewish communities around the world.
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Rabbi Yosef Blau has served as mashgiah ruhani, senior spiritual advisor, at Yeshiva University since 1977. He has been an active advocate for victims of abuse for more than a quarter of a century.
David Cheifetz has founded a nonprofit organization focused on addressing the issues of child sexual abuse in the Jewish community, Mi Li—Who Is for Me. He has had a nineteen-year career in general management in the private sector following a six-year career working for the Israeli government in both the United States and Israel.
Justin Sakofs is a child-centered educator living with his wife and two children in Skokie, Illinois. He is the founder and creator of MagneticShul, a toy designed to engage young children in ritual synagogue life. In addition to being an entrepreneur, he serves on the board of Limmud Chicago and is an avid teacher at
Alan M. Schwartz, a graduate of Yeshiva University and New York Law School, formerly served as research director for the Anti-Defamation League. He and his family live in Teaneck, New Jersey.
Rabbi Adam Starr is the spiritual leader of the Young Israel of Toco Hills in Atlanta. He thanks the building committee, led by Kerri Snow, and the architect, Kyle Epstein, for their partnership in envisioning the new YITH building.
Rabbi Eliezer Hirsch is the founding rabbi of Mekor Habracha Synagogue in Center City Philadelphia.
Dr. Vivian B. Mann is curator emerita of the Jewish Museum and director emerita of the MA Program in Jewish Art and Visual Culture at the Jewish Theological Seminary.
Rabbi Aryeh Klapper is the dean of the Center for Modern Torah Leadership and rosh beit midrash of its Summer Beit Midrash program. More of his Torah and information about the center can be found at www. torahleadership.org.
