Rabbi Balfour Brickner Clergy Seminar: Former Speakers

Past Scholars & Speakers

Dr. Rachel Adler, Rachel Adler, Rabbi David Ellenson Professor of Jewish Religious Thought and Professor of Modern Jewish Thought and Feminist Studies at HUC-JIR

Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson, Vice President, Dean, Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies; Lecturer in Philosophy at the American Jewish University

Rabbi Jonathan K. Crane, Ph.D., Raymond F. Schinazi Junior Scholar of Bioethics and Jewish Thought at Emory University’s Center for Ethics. 

Rabbi Steve Fox, Chief Executive of the Central Conference of American Rabbis

Rabbi Josh Garroway Ph.D. Associate Professor of Early Christianity and the Second Commonwealth at HUC-JIR

Rabbi Jill Jacobs, Executive Director of T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights

Rabbi Samuel K. Joseph, Ph.D., Eleanor Sinsheimer Distinguished Service Professor of Jewish Education and Leadership Development at HUC-JIR

Rabbi Tzvi Blanchard, Director of Organizational Development, CLAL-The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership

Rabbi Nancy Fuchs Kreimer, Ph.D., Director, Department of Multifaith Studies and Initiatives; Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Reconstructionist Rabbinical College 

Rabbi Jonah Pesner, Director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism

Rabbi David Saperstein, Director Emeritus of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism and Senior Advisor for Policy and Strategy, Union for Reform Judaism

Dr. Mark Washofsky, Solomon B. Freehof Professor of Jewish Law and Practice at HUC-JIR in Cincinnati