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Rabbi Peretz Rodman

Rabbi Peretz Rodman has arrived in the United States as a Masorti speaker for Israel and Aliyah promotion. This program, taking place in conjunction with the biblical portion "Lech Lecha", has been organized by MERCAZ USA, the Zionist Organization of the Conservative Movement, in conjunction with, the Jewish Agency's Aliyah Department and the North American Israel Aliyah Centers.

Rabbi Rodman is a Jerusalem-based Jewish educator with three decades of experience in interpreting Judaism for modern Jews. Born and raised in Boston, he earned degrees in Jewish studies at Brandeis University and Hebrew College. After making aliyah in 1990, he continued his studies at the Schechter Rabbinical Seminary, from which he received his ordination in 1999.

Rabbi Rodman has taught Hebrew language and Jewish studies at educational institutions in the United States and Israel, including the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School in Rockville, Maryland, the Adelson School in Las Vegas, Brandeis University, the Schechter Institute, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies and the Rothberg International School of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has also spent much of each summer for the past decade and a half as rabbi and Scholar-in-Residence at Camp Ramah in New England.

Rabbi Rodman's teaching extends beyond the classroom to the virtual world and print media. He serves as a lecturer at Hebrew College Online and is a regular contributor to MyJewishLearning.com and other websites of Jewish interest. He recently became managing editor of Okimta, a new scholarly journal of studies in rabbinic literature, and he is at work on a book about biblical stories on conflict management.

Rabbi Rodman is a member of the board of Israel's Masorti Movement and is a past president of the Israel Rabbinical Assembly. He is married to Miriam Laufer, a college lecturer in special education, and is father to their three children.