Staff
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Professor Michael Rosenak, Head of the Academic Committee
Professor Emeritus of the Melton Centre and one of the leading contemporary philosophers of Jewish Education. Prof. Rosenak has played an active role in determining the course of the Mini-School in Israel. Among his many important academic activities, Prof. Rosenak coordinated a project that developed a comprehensive curriculum on the subject of Jewish values at the Melton Center for Jewish Education between the years 1980-1990.
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Dr. Yonatan Mirvis, International Director, The Florence Melton Adult Mini-School
As international director of the Florence Melton Adult Mini-School Institute since 1991, Dr. Mirvis is the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s foremost academic specialist in adult education. He lectures to graduate students and conducts research on this subject at the Hebrew University’s School of Education and Melton Centre for Jewish Education. He holds a doctorate in adult education from Surrey University in England, participated in the Jerusalem Fellows program and is a graduate of Yeshivat Kerem B’Yavneh in Israel.
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Dr. Nicham Ross, Director, The Gandel Institute for Adult Jewish Learning
Nicham Ross is a lecturer in the Department of Jewish Thought at Ben Gurion University of the Negev. Nicham received his BA degree from Bar Ilan University and his MA from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He completed his PhD in Jewish Thought at Ben Gurion University and he specializes in researching identity and tradition in Jewish literature from the beginning of the 20th century. He received a Fulbright Scholarship to carry out his post-doctoral studies at the University of Pennsylvania. In the past he has served as Assistant to the Dean of Jewish Studies at Touro College, Jerusalem and lectured in the Department of Philosophy at Bar Ilan University and the 'Kerem' Teacher Training College. He received the Dov Rafael prize for research in Jewish Thought, the Goren-Goldstein Scholarship, and is a Research Fellow at the Lamda Pozen Foundation for Secular Jewish Culture.
1219602965.gif) Tsafy Simons
A graduate of the Technion in Haifa (B.Arch. in architecture and Town Planning, 1975), with an MA (RCA) from the Department of Research Design at the Royal College of Art in London (1978). In the past Tsafy was the head of 20 learning centers in Marom Ha'Galil at the North of Israel on behalf of the Branco Weiss Institute for the Development of Thinking, as well as the inventor of an innovative high school for drop outs, which is now a chain of high schools. She also served as Head of Education, Culture and Welfare at the local council of Kfar Vradim, as well as the Head of Development and Training for the MathRiders program of the Helen Doron Company. For 2 years Tsafy was the director of the Karmiel-Misgav Gandel school, which had 5 classes of students. She is now the National Coordinator for the directors of the Gandel Institute, recruiting new directors as well as training them and supervising their development.
1219602771.gif) Dr. Ayelet Oettinger
Holds a PhD (cum laude) in Hebrew Literature from Haifa University. She is a recipient of the Wolf Foundation Prize for excellence in her first degree, the Pulver Prize for her MA thesis, and a Certifice of Honor from the Knesset for achieving excellence in her studies. Lecturer, Director of a study group and member of the curriculum development team. Head of Literature Studies and Academic Writing in the Pre-Academic Studies Center at the Haifa University, lecturer at Oranim Academic College of Education and the Arabic Academic College of Education in Israel - Haifa. Guest lecturer at Yad Ben Zvi, Diaspora Museum and the Ministry of Education.
1220381541.JPG) Sigalit Ur
Holds an MA (cum laude) from Tel Aviv University, the Talmud Department. Sigalit is a graduate of the Hartman Program for the Renewal of Jewish Education in State Schools in Israel. Staff member, facilitator and devises study programs for the Galilee Foundation for Value Education. Facilitator, writer and editor of the fourth course for the Gandel Institute - "Values and Morals in Judaism".
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