A fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute, Ari Elon has 30 years of experience teaching Talmud and Midrash at institutes throughout Israel. Ari is a faculty member in the Bina Center for Jewish Studies at the Efal Seminar Center of the United Kibbutz Movement.
He formerly directed the Rabbinic Texts Program at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Philadelphia. His publications include From Jerusalem to the Edge of Heaven – Meditations on the Soul of Israel and Coming to the Sacred (both in Hebrew); he also co-edited with Arthur Waskow Trees, Earth and Torah: A Tu B’Shvat Anthology (JPS, 1999).