Dafna is an organizational psychologist and group facilitator, including at the Gesher Leadership Institute.  She mentors directors, groups and organizations  in the process of growth and change.  Dafna specializes in facilitating large groups using dialogue-based methods.  She also coaches people about career changes.

Channa is the director of the Be’eri School for Teacher Education at the Shalom Hartman Institute and a Fellow at the Shacharit Think Thank.  She is a course facilitator at the Gesher Leadership Institute.  Her doctoral thesis from the Department of Gender Studies at Bar Ilan University presents a feminist viewpoint to the Medrash Eicha Rabba.  She is also a guest columnist for various media outlets.  From 2001-2004, Channa was the Jewish Agency education department emissary in Canada, responsible for pedagogy and administration.

Alon is the director of the Experiential Education division of the Be’eri program at the Shalom Hartman Institute.  He is a course facilitator at the Gesher Leadership Institute and a former Director of Programming at Gesher.  He was one of the initiators of the “Mirkam” NGO – a network of integrated communities and headed the “Yachad Modi’in” NGO for integrated, pluralistic Jewish education.  Alon is a Jerusalem social activist and sits on the Board of the Jerusalemites Movement. He holds a BA in psychology and sociology and a MA in sociology.

Jerusalem educator and cultural activist.   One of the founders and co-director of the Secular Yeshiva in Jerusalem. He teaches Bible and literature and organizes and directs cultural activities at the Yeshiva including “Hammers in the Night” on Yom Haatzmaut and the traditional “Chaffla” program on Thursday.  He also directs alumni activities.

Lecturer in Bible at the Shalem Academic College and Research Fellow at the Hartman Institute.  Her area of interest is literary analysis of the Bible and she lectures widely on this topic in different forums, both popular and academic.  Her book The Threefold Cord: Interrelations between the Books of Samuel, Ruth and Esther reads the megillot as a dialogue between the Jews of Israel and Persia on the formation and preservation of identity.  The book invites readers to an interpretive journey in the Biblical text which at the same time ventures into current reality and raises critical questions about our identity.  Orit is married and the mother of five children.