Baruch C. Frydman-Kohl, Senior Rabbi Beth Tzedec Congregation; Andrew C. Shaw, Rabbi, Stanmore and Canons Park United Synagogue and Executive Director, TRIBE, Young United Synagogue; Peter S. Knobel, Rabbi Emeritus, Beth Emet the Free Synagogue; Michael Balinsky, Rabbi, Executive Vice President, Chicago Board of Rabbis.

Advisory Board

A key to KJL’s success is our leadership and esteemed advisory board, whose members include:

Michael Balinsky
Rabbi, Executive Vice President
Chicago Board of Rabbis
Chicago, Illinois
Former director of faculty development for Florence Melton Adult International Education
Former executive director of Fiedler Hillel at Northwestern University

Baruch C. Frydman-Kohl
Senior Rabbi
Beth Tzedec Congregation
Toronto, Canada

Peter S. Knobel
Rabbi Emeritus
Beth Emet the Free Synagogue
Evanston, Illinois
Immediate past president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis

Andrew C. Shaw
Rabbi, Executive Director, TRIBE, Young United Synagogue
Community Rabbi, Stanmore and Canons Park United Synagogue
London, United Kingdom

Donald P. Jacobs
Dean Emeritus
Kellogg School of Management

Dinah Jacobs, Dean Jacobs’ wife, is the program’s founder and Academic Director.  She returned from a retirement dedicated to Jewish learning after a 25-year global career in corporate senior management to lead KJL.