Faculty
Graduate Student Winter Israel Fellowship Program

The faculty features distinguished professors, judges, executives, lawyers,
scientists, ethicists, and Jewish scholars from the U.S. and Israel.

Yishai Fraenkel
Mr. Fraenkel is Managing Director of the Intel - Jerusalem Software and Chip Design Center.

Tod Jacobs
Mr. Jacobs is considered one of the leading authorities in the telecommunications industry internationally. Mr. Jacobs served as a Senior Managing Director at JP Morgan, where he oversaw global telecom research, and acted as Chief Telecom Strategist.

Bennett Kaplan
Mr. Kaplan is the President and CEO of Epic Entertainment, the IMAX Licensee in Israel.

Rabbi Shmuel Kurtz
Rabbi Kurtz is Director of the Graduate Division of the New England Institute of Jewish Studies, and is an award-winning instructor of Talmud at the Ida Crown Academy, Chicago.

Judge Phillip Marcus
Judge Marcus is a judge in the Jerusalem Family Court.

Joel Maryles
Mr. Maryles is Managing Director, Citigroup Investment Banking specializing in global technology and health care.

Benjamin Phillips, Ph.D.
Dr. Phillips is a Professor of Business Administration and Organizational Management at Bar Ilan University. He is a leading economic consultant to major Israeli corporations.

Jonathan Ratner
Mr. Ratner works in corporate finance and previously specialized in assisting Israeli inventors to commercialize their technologies in world markets.

Deborah Rubanowitz
Ms. Rubanowitz teaches Jewish thought and philosophy for the New England Institute of Jewish Studies.

Rabbi Gamliel Shmalo
Rabbi Shmalo is a lecturer on Jewish law, ethics, and philosophy at Michlala Jerusalem College and Yeshiva University.

Thomas Steinberg
Mr. Steinberg is President of the Tisch Family Interests. In this capacity he is responsible for a wide range of investment activities for the families of Laurence A. Tisch and Preston Robert Tisch including public equity, private equity, real estate and debt. Mr. Steinberg received an economics degree from Yale University where he graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He also received an MBA from Stanford University.

Rabbi Meir Triebetz, Ph.D.
Rabbi Triebetz is the Dean of the Zichron Shimon Graduate School of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem. He is also a senior lecturer of Jewish law, Talmud and philosophy at Machon Shlomo Institute. Rabbi Triebetz earned his Ph.D. in Physics from Princeton University.

Elan Zivotofsky
Mr. Zivotofsky is a Senior Vice President in the Lehman Brothers Investment Banking Division, Israel, focusing on Israeli business development.