Rabbanit Goldie Guy is Director of Religious Engagement at Anshe Sholom B’nai Israel in Chicago, IL. She studied in Israel at the Beit Midrash for Women at Migdal Oz and earned her B.A. in Religion at Barnard College. Afterward, Rabbanit Guy attended the Graduate Program in Advanced Talmudic Studies at Yeshiva University, a two-year program of study in Talmud and Jewish law. While there, she served as chaplaincy intern at North Shore University Hospital. She then studied at Yeshivat Maharat, completing her course of study in Jewish Law and Pastoral Care. During her time there, she taught a beginners’ Talmud course and was a clergy intern at Columbia/Barnard Hillel and a UJA-NY Fellow.

Rabbi Daniel Gropper is the Rabbi of the Community Synagogue of Rye in Rye, NY. Ordained from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York, he previously served congregations in New York, California, and Massachusetts. He holds a Master of Arts in Hebrew Letters and in Jewish Education from the Rhea Hirsch School of Jewish Education. His long-time passion for education led him to create programs such as J-Life and Chavurah at the synagogue. He has served as faculty and as a member of the Board of Trustees at URJ Eisner/Crane Lake Camps. Rabbi Gropper also served as a vice-chair of the URJ’s National Youth Commission and Commission for Lifelong Learning.

Rabbi Julia Appel is Director of Innovation Training and Curriculum at Clal in New York, NY. She is passionate about building Jewish community that meets the challenges of the 21st century – in which Jewish identity is a choice, not an obligation. She recently founded the start-up Bina Community Circles, a new spiritual project fostering Jewish personal flourishing and communal change through deep relationship-building circles. For Clal, she teaches “Leadership Through Innovation” to rabbinical and cantorial students and leads communal change projects. Previously, she served as the Senior Jewish Educator and Campus Rabbi of Hillel at the University of Toronto.