Sarah Craimer is currently a principal at OutManage, which provides senior level consulting services to start-ups and mid-level companies in the areas of management and business strategy, including investor connections, marketing and business development, management of operations, finance and human resources. Among other positions, Ms. Craimer has served as VP Human Resources at Star Defense Systems, a TASE traded company with 350 employees in 7 subsidiaries, as Senior Human Resources & Operations Consultant at AppNexus, a global company with over 600 employees, as a Director on the Board of Directors of Sovereign Assets Ltd., a TASE traded company, as the COO at Modular Implant Dentistry, the COO at Densys, VP Human Resources & Operations at Chiasma, VP Finance and Operations at XOSoft, and VP Operations at FourFold. Ms. Craimer is also accredited by the Ministry of Industry and Trade as a lecturer at MATI and holds a BA and a Masters degree.

Tova Osofsky is the managing partner at Isratec Business Consulting, which provides consulting services in strategic planning, marketing, marketing research, and business and marketing writing. Ms. Osofsky has worked with numerous companies in the high tech industry, as well as in the private and non-profit sectors. She holds an M.B.A. in marketing and decision sciences from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Rabbi Dr. Ariel Picard is the educational director of the Shalom Hartman Institute’s Be’eri program and a research fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute.  Ordained by the Israeli Chief Rabbinate, Dr. Picard has a Ph.D. in philosophy from Bar-Ilan University and conducts research in contemporary Jewish law.  His most recent publication, Halakha in a New World: Rabbinic Discourse in Modern Society, was published by the Shalom Hartman Institute in 2012.  

Barbara Sofer is the Israel director of public relations and communications for Hadassah.  She is also a popular columnist in the Jerusalem Post, a journalist, and novelist. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Women’s Day, Reader’s Digest and Parents, among others.   Ms. Sofer is the winner of seven Rockower Awards for Outstanding Jewish Journalism, and the Sydney Taylor Award in 1996 for the Best Jewish Children’s Book for Shalom, Haver. Ms. Sofer has written five books and is currently a bi-weekly columnist for The Jerusalem Post.

Professor Daniel Statman is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Haifa University and a prolific writer. He received his B.A. and his Ph.D. from Bar-Ilan University. His research areas are: ethics, moral psychology philosophy of law, and Jewish philosophy.

Miriam Zussman is a senior vice president at Jennison Associates, where she manages bond-investment portfolios. She holds an M.B.A. from New York University. 

Honorary Board Member

Yosef (Yoske) Ahituv(dec’d) received an honorary doctorate from Bar-Ilan University in 2004 for his significant contribution to religious Zionism and the Religious Kibbutz Movement, and his impact on Israel’s developing Jewish, Zionist, and democratic character. A renowned scholar in the area of Jewish law and philosophy and a senior research fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute, Mr. Ahituv also taught Judaic studies at Yeshivat HaKibbutz HaDati and the Ya’akov Herzog Center at Ein Zurim. His extensive writings examined mythic and other perspectives on the nature of “woman” and the significance of sexuality in rabbinic literature, as well as Jewish belief and life after the Holocaust.