Rabbi Jeffrey Saks

Director, ATID & WebYeshiva.org; Editor, Tradition Journal

Rabbi Jeffrey Saks is the founding director of ATID – The Academy for Torah Initiatives and Directions in Jewish Education, in Jerusalem, and its WebYeshiva.org program. He is the Editor of Tradition: A Journal of Orthodox Jewish Thought (published by the Rabbinical Council of America), and Director of Research at the Agnon House in Jerusalem. A three-time graduate of Yeshiva University (BA, MA, Semicha), he was a Jerusalem Fellow at the Mandel Leadership Institute for senior Jewish educators, and subsequently on the staff of their Visions in Jewish Education Project. He was formerly on the faculties of the Yeshiva University High School for Girls in New York, and in Israel at Yeshivat Hamivtar, and currently as a founding faculty member at Midreshet Amudim in Jerusalem. Saks co-edited “Wisdom From All My Teachers: Challenges and Initiatives in Contemporary Torah Education” (Urim); “To Mourn a Child: Jewish Responses to Neonatal and Childhood Death” (OU Press); “Agnon’s Tales of the Land of Israel” (Wipf & Stock); “Building a City: Writings on Agnon’s Buczacz” (Indiana University Press); and authored “Spiritualizing Halakhic Education” (Mandel Foundation). He has published widely on Jewish thought, education, and literature.

Languages

English or Hebrew

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