c is one of the founders and part of the senior staff
at the Heschel Center for Sustainability in Tel Aviv.
He holds an AB degree from Harvard, a master's in rabbinic literature,
and a PhD in environmental anthropology.
He teaches environmental ethics at Tel Aviv University,
and is the author of The Way Into Judaism and the Environment (Jewish Lights, 2006),
and many other publications in English and Hebrew
on the intersection of the sources of Judaism and the challenges of sustainability today. 

Dr.  Avner Dinur.
A secular theologian. Lecturer of Jewish studies at Sapir College and Bar Ilan University.
A Research fellow at The Weisfeld Family Maayan Center for Sustainability, Jewish Philosophy and Ethics.
Co-chair of  FAB – Friendship across borders, a joint German-Palestinian-Israeli initiative.

His book "Something to Believe in: Secular Theology" (Hebrew) appeared in IDRA Publishing, 2023.

Rachel Verliebter is a psychotherapist and a doctoral student at the Department of Jewish Philosophy,
currently completing her dissertation which is dedicated to investigating the symbolism and phenomenology of water in Jewish mysticism.
In her wider interdisciplinary research, Rachel explores medieval and modern Jewish intellectual history,
centering on the role of Kabbalah in modern identity discourse
with a particular focus on the Parisian school of Jewish thought (L'École de pensée juive de Paris).

Rachel is also a long-standing psychother

Yehudah Mirsky is Professor of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies and of Israel Studies at Brandeis University.

The author of several volumes in English and Hebrew on the thought of Rav Kook,
he has published widely in general publications such The Washington Post, The Economist and many others on religion, politics and culture. He served in the US State Department's human rights bureau and assisted then-Senator Al Gore in the preparation of his best-selling Earth in the Balance.

At Maayan he is focusing on the relationship between sustainability

Dr. Bea Baharier is a planetary geochemist and astrobiologist working
at the intersection of planetary science, sustainability, and ethics.

She holds an MSc in Geochemistry from the University of St Andrews
and a PhD in Planetary Science and Astrobiology from the Open University, UK.

Currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ma’ayan Center for Jewish Philosophy and Sustainability, Bea’s research draws on Jewish philosophical thought to examine humanity’s relationship with planetary environments and the ethical implications of space exploration. 

Dr. Shira Vardi

the Max Stern Yezreel Valley College in Northern Israel

Lecturer and Staff Member at the faculties of Human Services and Social Work, 

Research Fellow at the Ma'ayan Institute for Sustainability, Jewish Philosophy and Ethics

Research focuses on the equivalence of two practices - "Eruv" and the "Kibbutz" - in terms of privatization of the public space, inclusion vs. exclusion, property and community.

Lives in Nir David (by itself an exclusionary Kibbutz), married to Zafrir and mother to six children.     

Rabbi Yedidya Sinclair serves as Director of Research at Jewish Climate Trust.
With a background in clean energy entrepreneurship as well as Jewish education, he previously served as Vice President at Energiya Global, and as rabbi to the students at Cambridge University, where he also taught Jewish studies in the Divinity School. He holds a BA from Oxford University, a Masters from Harvard, pursued Phd studies in Jewish Thought at University College London,
He is a doctoral cadidate in th eDepartment of Jewish Thought at Bar Ilan University

Rabbi Dr. Aharon Ariel Lavi is the Managing Director of the Ohr Torah Interfaith Center, working to make religion part of the solution to global challenges. Founder of the MAKOM and Hakhel networks of intentional communities (both won the Jerusalem Unity Prize, awarded by the President of Israel). His PhD research explores the idea migration between the U.S. and Israel, and his postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard Divinity School and Bar Ilan University’s Ma’ayan Institute focused on Jewishly informed community building.

Dr. Nadav Shifman Berman is a Research Fellow at the Weisfeld Family Maayan Centre for Jewish Philosophy and Sustainability, Bar-Ilan University and Adjunct Lecturer at Yeshiva University. His Maayan Centre project explores the idea of ‘Fear of Heaven (yirat shammayim) as Environmental Virtue’.

https://biu.academia.edu/NadavSBerman 

Einat Kramer is a doctoral fellow at the Ma’ayan Center for Jewish Philosophy and Sustainability at Bar-Ilan University and a doctoral candidate (ABD) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research explores the intersection of religion, society, and ecology, with a focus on contemporary Jewish environmental initiatives inspired by the Shemitah tradition. In addition to her academic work, she is an environmental activist who integrates scholarly inquiry with field-based action.
 

Ghila Amati holds a PhD from the University of Oxford’s Department of Theology and Religion. She is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Weisfeld Family Foundation Ma'ayan Center for Jewish Philosophy and Sustainability at Bar-Ilan University. She is also the recipient of the Gerald Westheimer Career Development Fellowship from the Leo Baeck Institute.

Previously, she held fellowships at the Israel Democracy Institute in Jerusalem, as part of the Judaism and Human Rights Program, and at Shalem College as an Arthur Fried Fellow.

Her scholarly work has b

Jonathan Alon (Aikhenbaum) holds a PhD from the Bar Ilan University department of Political sciences. He is a fellow at the Weisfeld Family Foundation Ma'ayan Center for Jewish Philosophy and Sustainability at Bar-Ilan University. Jonathan associates research in philosophy with advocacy and activism, and has been the leading voice of Greenpeace in Israel in the last decade. 
His research focuses on philosophy of property and sustainability, the boundaries of ecological interpretation of Mistvot and the ecological meaning of the book of Genesis.

Mois Navon is a computer engineer, a moral philosopher and an orthodox rabbi.  He holds a B.Sc. (Engr., UCLA), M.A. & Ph.D. (Jewish Phil., BIU), rabbinic ordination (Mercaz Harav), and Postdoc in the Jewish Phil. (BIU). His dissertation – The Moral Status of Artificial Intelligence – addresses ethical questions in AI. In this vein, he teaches a course on “Ethics in Artificial Intelligence” at BGU and is National Advisor to the Ministry of Innovation, Science & Tech. on AI Policy and Regulation.