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Dr. Ruth Calderon is a former research fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute and one of Israel’s leading figures spearheading efforts to revive Hebrew Culture and a pluralistic Israeli-Jewish identity.

She co-established ELUL, the first beit midrash in which secular and religious women and men studied and taught together. In 1996 in Tel Aviv, she founded in ALMA, a Jewish liberal arts program for advanced learning and is the author of A Bride for One Night (2001), a personal homiletic reading of Talmudic legends, and Talmudic Alpha Beta (2014).

From 2013-2015, she was a Knesset Member from the Yesh Atid Party, where she was Deputy Speaker, member of the education and state control committees, and Chairperson of the Lobby for Jewish Renewal.

She holds a Master of Arts and Ph.D. in Talmud from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Ruth Calderon

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Oct 3, 2018

Seventy percent of children of Israeli migrants to North America shed their Jewish-Hebrew identity within a generation

Apr 25, 2017

Dr. Ruth Calderon, former Israeli Knesset Member, spoke to rabbis in honor of Israeli Independence Day

Sep 20, 2015

Rabbinic High Holiday Webinar for 5776

Jul 1, 2015

Dr. Ruth Calderon Justice and Righteousness in Rabbinic Narrative #HartmanSummer 2015 Rabbinic Torah Study Seminar July 1, 2015 Shalom Hartman Institute Jerusalem, Israel

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