The Uri L'tzedek Leadership Team - Tsufit Daniel, Aaron Finkelstein, Ari Hart, Ari Weiss, Shmuly Yanklowitz
Bios and pictures of Aaron Finkelstein and Tsufit Daniel coming soon!
Rabbi Ari Weiss: Rabbi Weiss is currently the Lead Professional of Uri L’Tzedek. Prior to Uri L’Tzedek, he was Co-Director of the Meorot University Fellowship and has served on the Judaic Studies Faculty of the Heschel School. In the summer of 2006, Rabbi Weiss was a JCUA Rabbinical Student Fellow and interned at We The People Media, a Chicago based public housing advocacy group. He has served as a Jewish educator for American Jewish World Service, Bnei Akiva, and the Lauder Foundation on missions to Nicaragua, Ghana, Israel, and Hungary. Rabbi Weiss also serves as the Rabbinic Fellow for the Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life at NYU.
Rabbi Weiss received his Rabbinical Ordination from YCT Rabbinical School in June 2007. He is completing a Masters degree in Jewish Philosophy from Yeshiva University where he completed his undergraduate work in philosophy and religion. He has studied at Yeshivat Har Etzion and Beit Morasha of Jerusalem.
Shmuly Yanklowitz studied at the University of Texas for an undergraduate degree and Harvard University for his Masters degree in Human Development and Psychology. He is now completing a second Masters degree in Jewish Philosophy at Yeshiva University and working on Doctoral Studies at Columbia University in Moral Development and Epistemology. During two different years, he studied at Yeshivat Hamivtar in Efrat, Israel. Shmuly has volunteered, taught, and staffed missions in many countries including Israel, France, Thailand, El Salvador, Ghana, India, and Ukraine. He is a third year Rabbinical School student at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah in New York, a Wexner Graduate Fellow, the Director of Panim JAM in Washington DC and a Co-Founder and Director of Uri L’Tzedek.
Ari Hart resides in Manhattan, where he co-directs Uri L'Tzedek, studies at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, and serves on Community Board 12 of Washington Heights and Inwood. Prior to New York, Ari lived in Chicago, where he launched Or Tzedek, the Teen Institute for Social Justice in Chicago, and served as its first director. He also served as Court Appointed Special Advocate for neglected and abused children in Cook County, and was a Nadiv Social Justice Fellow. Ari graduated from Grinnell College in 2004 with a bachelor's degree in music theory and composition.
Aaron Finkelstein... bio coming soon!