Seeking wisdom has guided Gerry Owen throughout his life and career. Professionally, he has studied many cultures as a college history professor (now retired). And, as a marriage, family therapist, he helps resolve conflicts, heal wounds and achieve forgiveness. Personally, he is husband, father, grandfather, speaker and wood carver. His writings, blending the science of emotional neurobiology with Torah wisdom and mystery, can be found at his website, Reflections from Above.

Ronnie Serr learns and teaches the love of HaShem, love of Torah and love of Israel in Los Angeles. He leads a weekly study group on Song of Songs , teaches at the Academy of Jewish Religion, Los Angeles, and is a member of the Happy Minyan.

Joshua Hoffman is a member of the rabbinic staff at Valley Beth Shalom, a lecturer in liturgy at the American Jewish University, and Chairperson of the West Valley Rabbinic Task Force. He participates in the Synagogues: Transformation and Renewal (”STAR”) PEER program, a select national leadership program that helps early-career rabbis meet the growing needs of an ever more diverse Jewish population, a population with different expectations than previous generations, while also preserving core practices and values of Judaism.

Daniel Berkowitz has been a yearly participant and volunteer for Limmud in the UK. More than 2,000 participants gathered in Warwick for the 28th annual Limmud conference during the last week of 2007.

Judy Greenfeld the spiritual leader and founder of the Nachshon Minyan, a community that reaches out to the unaffiliated. She is the co-author of two books, Minding the Temple of the Soul and Entering the Temple of Dreams, and recently released the accompanying CD, When You Lie Down and When You Rise Up.

Joan Hyler is founder of Hyler Management, a talent and production company in Hollywood, and serves as co-chair of the Jewish Federation’s Los Angeles - Tel Aviv Partnership, which has created a highly successful program between the American and Israeli film and television communities.

Rabbi Elissa Ben-Naim is the Judaic Studies Director at the Brawerman Elementary School of Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles.

Yehuda Frischman is a practitioner of Jewish and Oriental Medicine. He has a Master of Science degree in Oriental Medicine from Dongguk Royal University in Los Angeles, a Bachelor of Arts degree in Speech and Drama from Yeshiva University, and an Associate of Arts degree in Jewish Studies from Yeshiva College.

Ethan Bair is a rabbinical student at the Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles, California. His personal process of becoming led him from a premedical path to rabbinical studies.