Rabbi Aryeh Bernstein

Aryeh Bernstein is a fifth-generation Chicago South Sider with extensive experience in Torah education, especially in progressive Jewish communities. Aryeh works as a national Jewish educator for Avodah; an educational consultant for the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs; a staff educator for the Jewish Initiative for Animals; is a T’ruah Jewish Law and Ethics COVID-19 Hackathon research fellow; and has previously taught and directed programs at Hadar Institute, Mishkan Chicago, Camp Ramah in Wisconsin, as well as campuses, communities and organizations around the United States and Israel. A former editor-translator for the Koren English edition of the Steinsaltz Talmud and a senior editor of Jewschool.com, Aryeh studied at Yeshivat Ma’ale Gilboa, the Jewish Theological Seminary, Yeshiva University and Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, and has rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Daniel Landes’s Yashrut Institute.

Essays

The Reconstructionist Network

Read & Rite

One-stop shop for progressive Jewish books and ritual objects

Placement Office

Placement resources for rabbis and congregations

Havaya Summer Programs

Overnight summer camp and teen Israel experience

Reconstructionist Educators of North America

Professional group for people leading schools in Reconstructionist congregations

Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association

Professional association of Reconstructionist rabbis

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