Kol-El faculty members

Local rabbis

Temple Chai (Reform): Rabbis William Berk, Mari Chernow, Peter Levi and Lisa Tzur

The New Shul ("traditional-egalitarian"): Rabbis Elana Kanter and Michael Wasserman

b Rabbi Darren Kleinberg; Kleinberg is also a Judaic faculty member at the Jess Schwartz Jewish Community High School


Other faculty members

Reform: Rabbi Melila Helner, a lecturer on Jewish mysticism at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem

Conservative: Rabbis Aryeh Cohen, associate professor of rabbinic literature at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles (UJ), and Shawn Fields-Meyer, an instructor in Bible and liturgy at the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the UJ

Orthodox: Rabbis Donniel Hartman, the co-director of the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem; David Kalb, a teaching fellow at CLAL, The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership; and Chaim Seidler-Feller, director of Hillel at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and a member of the advisory board of Edah, an organization promoting Modern Orthodoxy.

Stuart Schoffman, Koppelman scholar-in-residence of the Anti-Defamation League and research fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute of Advanced Judaic Studies


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