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Joel Levy is the Rosh Yeshiva of the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem where he has studied and taught for over twenty years. He was ordained by Rabbi David Hartman in 2000. He is particularly interested in modes of Jewish learning that promote spiritual and moral growth. He is the rabbi of Kol Nefesh Masorti, the UK's first fully egalitarian, traditional synagogue.
Leon Wiener Dow heads the beit midrash at Kolot and teaches at the Secular Yeshiva of Bina in Tel Aviv. His most recent book, The Going: A Meditation on Jewish Law won a 2018 National Jewish Book Award, and his Your Walking on the Way [Hebrew] was published by Bar Ilan University Press. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife and their five children.
How was the original Seder experienced, and how do we constitute a Jewish collective? Joel Levy and Leon Wiener-Dow argue that the collective must begin with the independent-minded individual.