GEFEN PUBLISHING HOUSE - Key Persons
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- Senior Fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem
Dr. Arie Morgenstern is a senior fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem. He received his PhD in modern Jewish history from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. His research specialties include messianic movements in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Dr. Morgenstern studied for many years in Israeli yeshivot, including Yeshivat Hevron in Jerusalem. He is the author of seven books, as well as many scholarly articles. His previous book in English is entitled Hastening Redemption: Messianism and the Resettlement of the Land of Israel (Oxford University Press, 2006).
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- Co - Founder of the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem
Dr. Joshua Kulp is a co-founder of the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem, where he has taught Talmud and Halakhah for over a decade. He holds a Ph.D. in Talmudic Studies from Bar Ilan University and has published numerous articles on the Seder and other subjects in leading academic journals.
Dr. Kulp is the author of The Schechter Haggadah: Art, History and Commentary.
Rabbi Ari Kahn received his rabbinic ordination from Yeshiva University's Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, where he studied with Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveitchik. He graduated Yeshiva University with a BA in psychology and an MS degree in Talmud. He is the director of Foreign Student Programs at Bar-Ilan University in Israel and is a senior educator at the Aish HaTorah College for Jewish Studies and Matan. Rabbi Kahn is also vice president of Migdal Ohr Institutions in Israel, He has authored over two hundred articles on the weekly parshah and holidays, with a readership in excess of ten thousand. He is also the author of Explorations, an in-depth analysis of the weekly Torah reading, and Emanations, an in-depth analysis of the Jewish holidays. Rabbi Kahn is also a renowned speaker and has lectured worldwide. He has lived in Israel since 1984 with his wife Naomi and five children.
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- Mayor of Jerusalem 1965 - 1993, S.
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- Biography of Yechile Kadishai, Personal Secretary and Confidant of Menachem Begin
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- Member of a Small Group T.