Bella Tendler Krieger is the Director of Adult Learning and Growth at CAJE-Miami, which runs pluralistic adult Jewish educational classes and programs throughout South Florida. She holds an MA and PhD in Islamic Studies from Princeton University and an MBA in Marketing and International Business from the University of Miami. Her research interests revolve around the construction of orthodoxy and heresy in religious communities, sectarian polemics, syncretism, esotericism, and the insider outsider problem in the study of religion. Most recently, Bella has focused on contemporary Jewish thought, applying the critical lens she developed in Islamic Studies to the Jewish tradition. Bella worked as a professor of history at Yeshiva University and held postdoctoral positions at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, the Global Jewish Studies Program at Florida International University, and the Kogod Research Center of the Shalom Hartman Institute.  She also worked as a strategy consultant in the healthcare sector, helping large corporations pivot towards value-based care. Bella is a certified yoga instructor, a novice poet, an avid hiker, mountain climber, and world traveler. She currently lives in Surfside, FL with her husband, three daughters, and pandemic puppy named Babka.