Rabbi Shawn Israel Zevit, www.rabbizevit.com is a congregational consultant and Director of Outreach and Tikkun Olam for the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation. He is the Co-Director of the award-winning Davennen Leaders Training Institute and is a spiritual director for many clergy. A recording artist he has also written and developed resources in the areas of Community Building, Leadership, Prayer, Contemporary views of GOD, Jewish Men's issues ("Brother Keepers: New Essays in Jewish Masculinity), and Money and Jewish values ("Offerings of the Heart: Values-Based Approaches to Money in Faith Community". Rabbi Zevit moved to Cleveland in 2009 to be with his wife Rabbi Simcha Zevit and family, continuing his work for JRF from there.

Rabbi Shawn Israel Zevit, www.rabbizevit.com is a congregational consultant and Director of Outreach and Tikkun Olam for the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation. He is the Co-Director of the award-winning Davennen Leaders Training Institute and is a spiritual director for many clergy. A recording artist he has also written and developed resources in the areas of Community Building, Leadership, Prayer, Contemporary views of GOD, Jewish Men's issues ("Brother Keepers: New Essays in Jewish Masculinity), and Money and Jewish values ("Offerings of the Heart: Values-Based Approaches to Money in Faith Community". Rabbi Zevit moved to Cleveland in 2009 to be with his wife Simcha and family, continuing his work for JRF from there.

Rabbi David Teutsch has been a builder of religious community since becoming a congregational rabbi thirty years ago. He is the Wiener Professor of Contemporary Jewish Civilization and director of the Levin-Lieber Program in Jewish Ethics at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, where he served as president for nearly a decade. The editor in chief of the groundbreaking Kol Haneshamah prayer book series published by JRF’s Reconstructionist Press, he has also authored several other books, including Making a Difference:A Guide to Jewish Leadership and Not-for-Profit Management. His most recent book, A Guide to Jewish Practice: Everyday Living, won the 2012 National Jewish Book Award for Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice. For more information about it, click www.rrc.edu/Guide .

Rabbi Jane Rachel Litman is the Director of the Western Region of the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation, serving the twenty-four congregations and havurot west of the Rockies and Texas..  In her twenty years of experience as a rabbi, she has served Conservative, Reconstructionist, Reform and Gay Outreach congregations, and is a consultant on moral education for diverse families for national Jewish institutions, the National Council of Churches and the Metropolitan Community Church. In addition to her rabbinate, she was a professor of Religion and Women's Studies at California State University at Northridge, and lectured at the University of Judaism and Loyola Marymount College.  

Rabbi Litman is highly committed to social action and interfaith work.  She chaired the board of the Clinica Msgr. Oscar Romero and the Southern California Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights, the East Bay Interfaith Committee for Economic Justice and sits on the executive committee of Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice. She is a Peace and Justice Commissioner for the City of Berkeley. Widely published in the fields of Jewish women's history and contemporary theology, Rabbi Litman's book, Lifecycles 2: Jewish Women on Scriptural Themes in Contemporary Life, co-edited with Rabbi Debra Orenstein, won several prestigious academic and community awards.  Rabbi Litman lives with her spouse, Stewart Schwartz, and their two children, Sophie and Asher in Berkeley, California.

Rabbi David Teutsch has been a builder of religious community since becoming a congregational rabbi thirty years ago. He is the Wiener Professor of Contemporary Jewish Civilization and director of the Levin-Lieber Program in Jewish Ethics at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, where he served as president for nearly a decade. The editor in chief of the groundbreaking Kol Haneshamah prayer book series published by JRF’s Reconstructionist Press, he has also authored several other books, including Making a Difference:A Guide to Jewish Leadership and Not-for-Profit Management. His most recent book, A Guide to Jewish Practice: Everyday Living, won the 2012 National Jewish Book Award for Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice. For more information about it, click www.rrc.edu/Guide .

Rabbi David Teutsch has been a builder of religious community since becoming a congregational rabbi thirty years ago. He is the Wiener Professor of Contemporary Jewish Civilization and director of the Levin-Lieber Program in Jewish Ethics at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, where he served as president for nearly a decade. The editor in chief of the groundbreaking Kol Haneshamah prayer book series published by JRF’s Reconstructionist Press, he has also authored several other books including Imagining the Jewish Future and titles in the series A Guide to Jewish Practice published by RRC Press.

Rabbi Mordechai Liebling holds a Bachelor of Arts in government from Cornell University and Master of Arts in the history of American civilization, specializing in American progressive movements, from Brandeis University. Rabbi Liebling is a 1985 graduate of RRC.
He has published articles in many publications, including Tikkun, Israel Horizons, Jewish Currents and The Reconstructionist.  Currently, he serves as the Director of the newly created Social Justice Organizing Program at RRC.  He has served on the boards of various national and international non-profit organizations; currently he serves on the boards of the Faith and Politics Institute and Rabbis for Human Rights-North America. Liebling also is the president emeritus of the Shalom Center.

Rabbi David Teutsch has been a builder of religious community since becoming a congregational rabbi thirty years ago. He is the Wiener Professor of Contemporary Jewish Civilization and director of the Levin-Lieber Program in Jewish Ethics at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, where he served as president for nearly a decade. The editor in chief of the groundbreaking Kol Haneshamah prayer book series published by JRF’s Reconstructionist Press, he has also authored several other books including Imagining the Jewish Future and titles in the series A Guide to Jewish Practice published by RRC Press.

Rabbi Mordechai Liebling holds a Bachelor of Arts in government from Cornell University and Master of Arts in the history of American civilization, specializing in American progressive movements, from Brandeis University. Rabbi Liebling is a 1985 graduate of RRC.
He has published articles in many publications, including Tikkun, Israel Horizons, Jewish Currents and The Reconstructionist.  Currently, he serves as the Director of the newly created Social Justice Organizing Program at RRC.  He has served on the boards of various national and international non-profit organizations; currently he serves on the boards of the Faith and Politics Institute and Rabbis for Human Rights-North America. Liebling also is the president emeritus of the Shalom Center.

Rabbi Shawn Israel Zevit, www.rabbizevit.com is a congregational consultant and Director of Outreach and Tikkun Olam for the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation. He is the Co-Director of the award-winning Davennen Leaders Training Institute and is a spiritual director for many clergy. A recording artist he has also written and developed resources in the areas of Community Building, Leadership, Prayer, Contemporary views of GOD, Jewish Men's issues ("Brother Keepers: New Essays in Jewish Masculinity), and Money and Jewish values ("Offerings of the Heart: Values-Based Approaches to Money in Faith Community". Rabbi Zevit moved to Cleveland in 2009 to be with his wife Simcha and family, continuing his work for JRF from there.

Melissa Segal has served as Executive Director for the Chapel Hill Kehillah since 2006. From 2000-2006, she was the Education Director at the Kehillah, during which she co-founded and then served as Chair of RENA, the Reconstructionist Educators of North America. She recently co-founded and now co-chairs CEDAR, Congregational Executive Directors and Administrators in Reconstructionism. Melissa has a Master’s degree in Social Work and a certificate in nonprofit management from Duke University.

Neshama Mousseau has served as Executive Director for Congregation Beth Evergreen (CBE) since 2004.  With more than 26 years in nonprofit management positions, her Jewish communal professional and lay service has included: founding member of the liberal Chevra Kaddisha in Boulder, CO in 1986; board member of the Jewish Renewal Community of Boulder; and Executive Director of the Jewish Senior Recreation Network in Denver. She has a Master’s degree in Social Work and is a graduate of the Colorado Nonprofit Leadership and Management Program. She recently co-founded and now co-chairs CEDAR, Congregational Executive Directors and Administrators in Reconstructionism.

Howard Glicksman has served on the Executive Committee and Board of the Kehillah for the past 10 years. For the last 4 years, and during the time the Kehillah made the transition to having an Executive Director, he served as co-president and then president of the Kehillah. He also serves as treasurer of NC Hillel and regional president on the JRF Board.

Rich Levine has been a member of Congregation Beth Evergreen (CBE) since moving to Colorado in 1995.  He has served the Congregation in numerous roles, including Past President, during a term when the CBE was in transition into its first building, hired its first full-time rabbi via the JRF hiring process(Rabbi Jamie Arnold), and the community's decision to discard its entirely unaffiliated status maintained for some 30 years and to affiliate with JRF.  The combination of these decisions necessitated a careful balance of capital fundraising, revisiting the dues structure, re-alignment of debt, and the production of income for the synagogue internally and through third-party relationships.  Rich currently serves the community as a religious school instructor (7th grade).  Rich is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley (law) and the University of California, Santa Barbara (Sociology, and Law and Society). He currently practices law in Evergreen, Colorado, and has maintained positions as an Adjunct Professor teaching law at the Colorado School of Mines and the University of Denver Women’s College.

Aaron Ahuvia, Ph.D., is a Professor of Marketing at the University of Michigan-Dearborn School of Management, and teaches Social Marketing at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business. Professor Ahuvia is an expert in social marketing, which is the use of marketing techniques to solve social problems and influence public opinion. He lends his expertise to many non-profits, particularly around the issues resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, international economic development, and helping people lead happier lives by reducing materialism. He is a member of the National Board and Executive Committee, as well as a designated National Spokesperson for Brit Tzedek v’Shalom. With over 45,000 supporters and 38 chapters across the country, Brit Tzedek is America’s largest grass roots Jewish organization dedicated to a viable negotiated two-state resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Joel Blechman has worked at Frankel & Company , Visa, USA , GM R*Works, and Beach Communications.  His extensive knowledge of database marketing and contact management programs helped him to succeed.  From 2004 - 2006 he participated in starting up a consortium of 7 companies created to market GM Zero Emission Vehicles in 5 states. Within 6 months we grew from 7 people to 200 located in 5 states, and conducted a program that saved GM several hundreds of millions of dollars, and which was reported to be the most cost effective marketing program in GM’s history. Joel joined Trisect in May of 2007 and has contributed on Kawasaki as well as Alberto Culver, while helping to enhance agency processes and financial systems.

Dan Cedarbaum became the JRF’s Director of Movement Growth Initiatives and Special Projects in September 2008, having previously served for almost 20 years as a member of JRF’s Board of Directors.  From 2002-2006, Dan was the President of the JRF.  In addition, Dan has served as a member of the Board of Governors of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and as a member of the Executive Committee and the Board of Trustees of the United Jewish Communities.  Dan is also a member of the Board of Directors of the National Council of Synagogues, which is perhaps the leading national Jewish organization working in the area of interfaith dialogue and programming.    
Dan and and his family have been members of the Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation (JRC) in Evanston, Illinois, since 1987, and Dan is also a member of Ezra Habonim NTJC in Skokie, Illinois.  Dan is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School.

Carl A. Sheingold began serving in September 2004 as the executive vice president of JRF. Previously he was management professor in the Hornstein Program in Jewish Communal Service and director of the Fisher Bernstein Institute for Leadership Development in Jewish Philanthropy at Brandeis University. He served as part of the senior management of the Council of Jewish Federations and as executive director of the National Havurah Committee. Carl earned his doctorate in sociology from Harvard University and before beginning his work in the Jewish community held faculty positions at Cornell and Brown universities. His career has spanned many settings — academic and organizational, mainstream and cutting edge, community organization, religious/cultural, and in community relations.

Rabbi Mordechai Liebling served as executive director of the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation for 12 years and is the Executive Vice President of the Jewish Funds for Justice. He is a consultant to JRF, a consultant on Money and Values issues for the Shefa Fund of Philadelphia, and a member of Reconstructionist Minyan Dorshei Derekh in Philadelphia.

Rabbi Nancy Epstein (RRC '06) is the Director of Congregational Relations for the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation (JRF). Nancy has worked with communities for over 30 years, holding positions of leadership in the areas of community organizing, nonprofit management, public policy, legislation and advocacy. She is trained in systems-centered approaches to organizational development and as a mediator of interpersonal and complex policy disputes and has served as a consultant to professional associations, not-for-profit organizations, universities, and national foundations. In addition to her role at JRF, Rabbi Epstein serves as an Associate Professor of Community Health at the Drexel University School of Public Health.