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Connect Israel is committed to providing the highest caliber speakers and Rabbis in a wide array of languages.
Connect Israel is continuing to attract additional speakers to our network every day.
The following is a list of speakers already committed to speak over the ConnectIsrael network to communities around the world.
Rabbi Dr. Aaron Adler
Rabbi Dr. Aaron Adler is a protégé of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, zt"l. In addition to being a graduate of Yeshiva University in New York, with rabbinic ordination from Y.U.’s Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (R.I.E.T.S.), Rabbi Adler holds a Ph.D in Talmud from Bar Ilan University.
Rabbi Adler and his family made aliyah in 1979.
He served on the faculty of Bar Ilan University, and is a past president and campus Rabbi at Emunah College for Arts and Technology in Jerusalem. He has been a lecturer for the Israel Defense Forces and a commentator for Kol Yisrael radio.
Rabbi Adler is a member of the central committee of the National Religious Party.
He is currently the Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Bnei Akiva Ner Tamid, located on a settlement called Hashmona’im. He helped found the yeshiva in 1995 to honor the memory of his beloved teacher, Rabbi Soloveitchik. Rabbi Adler is also the Rabbi of Neve Orot Community Synagogue in Ramot Aleph, Jerusalem.
Languages: English, Hebrew
Topics:
1. Rambam Studies: Survey of Literature, Halacha and Philosophy, Attitude torward Minhagim
2. HaRav Joseph B. Soloveitchik Zt"l on Parshat HaShavu'ah, preparing for the Chagim, Timely Topics (e.g. "Three Weeks.Tisha B'Av"), Rav's Drasha: style and content
3. Jewish Attitude Torward Art & Aethestics
4. Music in the Jewish Experience
5. Themes in Religious Zionism Studies
Dr. Miriam Adahan
Dr.Miriam Adahan, author, lecturer and renowned psychotherapist, is famous throughout the Jewish world for her sensitive advice and her highly effective EMETT ("Emotional Maturity Established Through Torah") system for coping with life's crises.
She has a B.A. in psychology, with honors, from the University of Michigan.
She also holds a Masters in counseling psychology from Wayne State University and did three years of post-Masters work in Humanistic Psychology Institute in San Francisco.
The Adahans' and their four children have lived in Jerusalem since 1981.
Languages: English, Hebrew
Topics: Parenthood, Jewish education, psychology
Rabbi Israel Meir Lau
Rabbi Israel Meir Lau was born in 1937 in Pyotrekov, Poland. A survivor of Buchenwald concentration camp, he lost both of his parents in the Holocaust. In 1946 he immigrated to Israel, where he lived with his uncle and studied at a state religious school in Kiryat Shmuel. He then studied at three yeshivas: Kol Torah in Jerusalem, Knesset Hizkiya in Zichron Ya’akov and Ponovitz in Bnei Brak.
In 1971 he was ordained as a Rabbi and headed Or Torah congregation in Tel Aviv, in 1979 he was ordained Chief Rabbi of Netanya.
In 1988 he was ordained Chief Rabbi and president of the Rabbinical Court of Tel Aviv-Yafo and in 1993 he was elected Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel.
Rabbi lau’s publications include Yahadut-Halacha Le’maase (1975) on the practice of Judaism and Yachel Israel (1993), tow volumes on medicine, ethics and Jewish customs.
Languages: Hebrew, English, German, and Yiddish
Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo
Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo, Dean of the David Cardozo Academy for Jewish studies and Human Dignity, lectures regularly at over fifty institutions for Jewish and secular learning around the world. He is often hosted by programs with affiliation ranging from the Orthodox Union and union of Sephardic Communities to oxford and Harvard universities.
Educated in Amsterdam, Rabbi Lopes Cardozo comes from the Portuguese-Spanish Jewish community of Holland. After receiving his rabbinical ordination from Gateshead Talmudic College, he studied at the Institute for Higher Rabbinical Studies of Chief Rabbi Unterman and at Mir Yeshiva. He holds a doctorate in Philosophy.
Regarded by many as a type of ambassador of conscience, he has, over the past twenty-five years, attracted a large number of students with his unconventional style. His fresh approach to many topics of social concern and his unswerving honesty continue to engage Jews and non-Jews alike.
He is known for his most original insights in Judaism, through which he is able to communicate to a wide audience the relevance of Judaism for our complicated times. Tens of thousands of people throughout Israel, Europe, the USA, Canada and South Africa; religious Jews, non-religious Jews and non-Jews as well, have become followers and disciples of Rabbi Lopes Cardozo’s unique style.
He resides in Jerusalem with his wife, children and grandchildren. He is presently working on several books and translations of earlier works into Spanish, Russian and Dutch.
Languages: Hebrew, English, Spanish and Dutch
Topics: Torah, Halacha, Jewish philosophy, Jewish Music and Spirituality
MK Isaac Herzog
Knesset Member Herzog was born in Israel to one of the prominent Zionistic families. His grandfather was the nation’s second chief rabbi and his uncle, Abba Eban, one of its best-known diplomats and historians. His father, Chaim Herzog - whose seminal 1983 work, the Arab-Israeli wars, has just been re-released - served in the 1948 war and was head of military intelligence before becoming a UN ambassador and president of Israel.
MK Isaac Herzog has got a Law Degree and has worked as an attorney for several years. He entered politics as Government Secretary under Ehud Barak's mandate.
He is currently member of the Finance Committee, member of the Internal Affairs and Environment committee as well as an active member of the Anti-Drug Abuse committee.
Languages: Hebrew, English, Arabic
Topics: Politics, Environment issues
Anatoly (Natan) Sharansky
Anatoly Sharansky is currently the Israeli minister of social and diaspora affairs.
Anatoly Sharansky was born in Ukraine and educated in Russia as a mathematician. In 1973 he applied for an exit visa to Israel, but, like all Soviet citizens who had worked in the military-industrial complex, he was refused on security grounds. He then became involved in an Israeli-sponsored worldwide campaign to put pressure on the Kremlin to give special treatment to Soviet Jewish citizens by allowing them to immigrate to Israel, irrespective of whether or not they had worked in the defense sector. In 1977 he was arrested on suspicion of spying for the US, and in the following year he was found guilty as charged and sentenced to 13 years imprisonment. He was released in 1986 in a US-Soviet spy exchange.
Sharansky began his political career in Israel by becoming head of the Zionist Forum, an organization dedicated to lobbying on behalf of Soviet immigrants.
In 1995 he founded the Yisra'el Ba'aliyah party, with the immediate aim of bringing in another million Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union and of encouraging a further million Jewish citizens of the United States and the European countries to immigrate to Israel.
Languages: Hebrew, English, Russian
Topics: Current affairs, Politics, Israel-Diaspora Relations
Rabbi Shlomo Aviner
Rabbi Shlomo Aviner is the best-selling author of over 50 works, ranging from philosophy to Jewish Law. He is considered to be a prominent voice on current events and topics of wide Jewish interest, and is featured in many leading newspapers and magazines across the world.
A disciple of Rabbi Zvi Yehuda HaCohen Kook, he is also the Rosh Yeshiva of Ateret Kohanim and the Rabbi of Beit El.
Considered one of the leading ideologues of the national camp in Israel, Rabbi Shlomo Aviner was born in 1943 in German Occupied Lyon, France. There he was active in Bnei Akiva, the religious Zionist youth movement, eventually assuming the role of national director.
Rabbi Aviner holds a M.A. in Mathematics and is an Electrical Engineer by profession.
Following his aliya to Israel, he studied at Yeshivat Merkaz Harav where he was one of the "Talmedi Muvhak" of Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda Kook, son of Israel's first Chief Rabbi, Avraham Yitzchak Kook.
Rabbi Aviner served previously as spiritual leader of Kibbutz Lavi in the Galil and Moshav Keshet on the Golan Heights. He is also a Reserve Lieutenant in the Israel Defense Forces.
Rabbi Aviner has hundreds of published works to his credit, including the famed "Sichot Harav Tzvi Yehuda" and "Tal Hermon" on the weekly Torah portion. He has written on a broad range of topics and his lectures in person and on tape reach a wide and diverse audience. He has columns that appear weekly in the Israeli daily Ma'ariv, and in the Machon Meir weekly newsletter "BeAhava U'Bemuna".
Rabbi Aviner also has a regular radio show with Arutz Sheva. Rabbi Aviner's advice is sought by people from all walks of life ranging from troubled youth and young couples to Prime Ministers and heads of the Security Establishment
Languages: Hebrew and French
Topics: Torah, Mussar, Halacha, Israel Studies, Jewish Family, Jewish Ethics, Early Childhood Education, Laws regarding the land of Israel
Rabbi Mordechai Elon
Rabbi Mordechai Elon is a highly regarded Rabbi and a teacher of enormous popular appeal. Not only is he renowned for his learning, he is a distinguished leader, admired and respected by people in all walks of life. With his ready smile and attentive demeanor, he is never too busy to listen to others, to explain, to advise and to teach.
Rabbi Elon is a gifted teacher, with the ability to touch the innermost core of the many who throng to hear him. Old and young, religious and secular, right wing and left-wing, Ashkenazim and Sephardim, all come to learn Torah from his lips, and the Rabbi welcomes them all.
Those who attend his sermons, classes and lectures reflect the entire spectrum of "amcha beit Yisrael". All social distinctions fall away in the large crowd of participants.
Rabbi Elon is a man of many facets. He heads Yeshivat HaKotel in Jerusalem's Old City, widely recognized as one of the country's leading hesder yeshivas.
In addition, Rabbi Elon travels throughout the country, and often abroad as well, to offer his encouragement, direction and guidance to all who turn to him for advice and help.
Rabbi Elon is one of the most charismatic Jewish leaders in the world today. He reaches more than 250,000 Israelis weekly with his classes on the weekly Torah portion heard live, listened on the radio and seen on television.
Rabbi Elon’s philosophy, with its central theme of Jewish unity and Jewish destiny, speaks to Israelis from across the Jewish spectrum. He has founded a new movement called Mibereshit with the goal to enhance Jewish knowledge and Jewish values for all Jews.
Languages: Hebrew
Topics: Weekly Torah portions, Torah studies, Current affairs in light of the Torah
Rabbi Pesach Wolicki
Rabbi Wolicki is the Rosh Yeshiva at Yesodei Torah, in Beit Shemesh. Until July 2003, Rabbi Wolicki was Development Director and Judaic studies teacher at Hillel Academy in Fairfield, Connecticut. He was also Director of Fairfield Jewish Experience, an adult education program serving Fairfield County. He particularly enjoys teaching approaches to Midrash, and imparting strong Torah research skills to his students. His columns appeared regularly in the Connecticut Post and he has hundreds of subscribers to his weekly parsha column, Pesach on the Parsha. He received his rabbinic ordination from the Chief Rabbinate of Jerusalem. He and his wife Kate live in Beit Shemesh with their 5 children.
Languages: English, Hebrew
Topics: Weekly Torah portions, Torah studies, Current affairs in light of the Torah
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