Rabbi Dr. Kenneth Brander is President and Rosh HaYeshiva of Ohr Torah Stone, a global network of 32 educational and social initiatives. An accomplished innovator in Jewish education and community building, he previously served as Vice President at Yeshiva University, where he enhanced student life, global service learning, and Israel advocacy. As senior rabbi of the Boca Raton Synagogue, he oversaw its growth from 60 to over 600 families, established Jewish institutions like The Katz Yeshiva High School, and developed the Hahn Judaic Campus. Rabbi Brander holds a Ph.D. in philosophy and comparative literature, has published extensively on Jewish law and thought, and is a sought-after speaker worldwide. Since making Aliya in 2018, he resides in Jerusalem with his wife, Rachel, and their family.

Rabbi Yakov Nagen is the head of Ohr Torah Stone’s Blickle Institute for Interfaith Dialogue and Beit Midrash for Judaism and Humanity, as well as the Executive Director of the Ohr Torah Interfaith Center. He holds a Bachelor's and Master’s degree from Yeshiva University, rabbinic ordination from RIETS, and a PhD in Jewish Philosophy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

For 25 years, Rabbi Nagen served as a senior educator at Yeshivat Otniel. A prominent advocate of religion as a means for promoting peace, he has been a leading figure in interfaith dialogue, particularly between Judaism and Islam, for two decades.

Rabbi Nagen is the author of ten books and numerous articles on Jewish spirituality, Talmud, interfaith relations, and other topics. He was also featured in Tablet magazine as one of the ten “Israeli Rabbis You Should Know.”

Rabbi Aharon Lavi is the Managing Director of the Ohr Torah Interfaith Center, which works with religious leaders worldwide to make religion part of the solution to global challenges. He is also the founder and co-director of Hakhel, the Jewish Intentional Communities Incubator in the Diaspora (awarded the 2020 Jerusalem Unity Prize), and the founder of the Garin Shuva community on the Gaza border.

Rabbi Lavi holds academic degrees in Economics, Geography (BA), and History and Philosophy of Ideas (MA). He recently completed his PhD dissertation on the migration of ideas between US Jewry and Israeli society. In 2024, he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Harvard Divinity School and wrote on Jewishly inspired community building. He is a published author on Jewish economic and environmental thought, community building, international religious affairs, and more.

Outside of his professional life, Rabbi Lavi is an avid mountain biker. His passion for the sport extends beyond leisure, as he is also a professional racer, trainer, and trail builder.

Rabbanit Devorah Evron headed the Susi Bradfield Women's Institute of Halakhic Leadership (WIHL) at Ohr Torah Stone's Midreshet Lindenbaum and serves as a spiritual leader at Bar-Ilan University. A graduate of the Morot Halakha program at Beit Morasha, Jerusalem, she is an accomplished teacher of Talmud and various Jewish texts. Her academic repertoire includes degrees in Israel studies, education, gender, and Jewish thought. A leading voice in halakhic feminism, Rabbanit Evron regularly engages in interfaith dialogue, appears in the media, and is an active member of Kolech and Beit Hillel. She lives in the Galilee in northern Israel with her husband Yuval, and is a loving mother and grandmother.

Rabbi Sarel Rosenblatt is the Rosh Yeshiva of the Ohr Torah Stone Robert M. Beren Machanaim Hesder Yeshiva and the head of the Ohr Torah Stone Joseph and Gwendolyn Straus Rabbinical Seminary. He is also a co-founder and senior research fellow at the Ohr Torah Interfaith Center. Rabbi Rosenblatt participated in and later facilitated the Culture, Religion, and Conflict Resolution (CRCR) seminar at Drew University, NJ. He also participated in th Search for Common Ground's leaders' interfaith group as well as numerous international interfaith activities. Rabbi Rosenblat holds a B.Ed. with a specialty in Jewish Thought (Herzog College) and a Masters in Jewish Philosophy (Ben Gurion University). He lives in Efrat with his wife Tzurit and their five children.

Dr. Assaf Malach is a notable political scholar and current head of the College of Politics at the Shalem Academic Center. Renowned for his expertise in nationalism, nation states, and political philosophy, he has contributed significantly to these fields and is a prominent public intellectual in Israel. From 2015 to 2022, he led the Citizenship Subject Committee for the Israel Ministry of Education. In 2019, his critically acclaimed book From the Bible to the State of the Jews was published by Yediot Books. Dr Malach's scholarly efforts have been widely recognized, earning him prestigious awards such as the Jabotinsky Prize, the Begin Prize, and the esteemed President's Research Scholarship.

Rabbanit Yaffa Aranoff completed Ohr Torah Stone’s Susi Bradfield Women’s Institute for Halakhic Leadership (WIHL) in 2023, after five years of intensive study and examinations on the level that men take for the Israeli rabbinate. She has a Bachelor’s in History from Barnard College and an Master’s in Jewish History from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Rabbanit Aranoff loves teaching and writing, and currently teaches at Ohr Torah Stone’s leading women’s learning program Midreshet Lindenbaum. She is continually inspired by the potential of interfaith partnership based on genuine mutual respect, and is honored to work with the Ohr Torah Interfaith Institute. Originally from New York, Rabbanit Aranoff moved to Israel in 1995 and lives in Jerusalem with her family.