Rabbi Paul Moses Strasko spends an inordinate amount of time thinking about things Jews are not supposed to be certain about—like the afterlife, Hell, and occasionally theology itself.

Proudly ordained at the Abraham Geiger Kolleg, he has served communities across Germany, the UK, Switzerland, and the United States, and has a long-standing habit of turning complicated ideas into slightly dangerous shiurim.

He also writes novels, teaches widely, and firmly believes that if a topic makes people a little uncomfortable, it is probably worth studying.

Hi, my name is Klára. Originally from the Czech Republic, I am a fourth-year rabbinical student at Abraham Geiger Kolleg in Potsdam, where I also study Jewish Theology at the University of Potsdam. When I am not immersed in texts and sources, I enjoy writing, singing, swimming — and a good sense of humour.

Dani Zekhry spends an inordinate amount of time thinking about what happens when Jewish texts stop sitting silently and obscurely on the page and begin to come alive—when they are sung, understood, questioned, and reinterpreted in conversation with the contemporary world.

Born into a Hebrew-speaking Mizrahi Jewish family in Brazil, he has spent a good part of his life serving Jewish communities there—as Madrich, Chazan, teacher of Jewish music, Hebrew, liturgy, cantillation, and B’nei Mitzvah, Torah reader, and educational and religious coordinator. He even worked as a security agent for EL AL during the years when the airline flew to São Paulo. Now a second-year rabbinical student at the Abraham Geiger Kolleg, he is bringing that long-standing commitment into a broader international setting, including service in Germany and in Vilnius, where he has worked as Chazan, Torah reader, teacher of cantillation, and as a rabbinical student serving in a rabbinic capacity.

His work is shaped by a commitment to Jewish learning, spiritual leadership, interreligious dialogue, a deep belief in the equal dignity of all human beings, and to making inherited liturgy audible, meaningful, and alive across languages, generations, and communal settings.

Orit Arfa is in her final year of rabbinical school at Geiger College. A journalist, novelist and singer-songwriter, Orit has devoted much of her studies to determining how to create a creative synagogue service while keeping true to Jewish tradition. She holds a BA in Bible and Journalism from American Jewish University and an MA in Bible and Jewish Thought from the Jewish Theological Seminary.