Dr. Yakir Englander is the Senior National Director of Leadership programs at the Israeli-American Council and a lecturer at the Academy for Jewish Religion in Yonkers, New York. He is a Fulbright scholar in Jewish Theology, Peace Studies, Gender and Sexual Studies. He was a visiting professor of Religion at Northwestern and Rutgers Universities, the Shalom Hartman Institute and Harvard Divinity School. Englander’s books about body, gender and sexuality in the Ultra-Orthodox and Zionist-Orthodox communities have changed the discourse on sexuality and gender inside the Jewish religious societies in Israel.
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