DEBORAH EISENBACH-BUDNER
has been facilitating people's exploration of Judaism for 18 years; teaching adults and children, creating family education and informal education programs, and directing synagogue education programs. Her education includes graduate degrees in Jewish Studies and in Jewish Education from Brandeis University, as well as studies at Pardes Institute (Jerusalem) and Oberlin College. She is currently Havurah Shalom's Education Director. This is her sixth year on the Melton faculty.

SYLVIA FRANKEL
received her undergraduate degree from Bar-Ilan University, Israel and her doctoral degree from the University of Oregon. She served for 12 years as Executive Director of the Oregon Holocaust Resource Center and has taught at Lewis & Clark and other local colleges for the past ten years. She has been on the Melton faculty since its inception in 1999.

ERICA GOLDMAN
teaches music and directs the t'llah (prayer) program at the Portland Jewish Academy. Erica is one of the founders of the Portland Women's T'llah Group and coordinates its monthly services. She holds a Doctorate in Music Theory and History from the University of Oregon, an M.M. from the New England Conservatory of Music, and a B.A. from Stanford University. This is her eighth year teaching for the Melton Mini-School

JAN RABINOWITCH
Before coming to Portland in 1987 to serve as Director of Education for Congregation Beth Israel, Jan Rabinowitch received a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School and taught in Conservative and Reform synagogue and community day schools, wrote curricula for publication and national distribution, led teacher-training programs, and developed and facilitated interfaith dialogues for the Naitonal Conference of Christians and Jews. She served as the Spiritual Leader of Congregation Kol Ami in Vancouver, and is the founder of Binah, an interfaith education resource which offers offers lectures and workshops on Judaism and Judaica for interfaith and non-Jewish groups. She also serves as an education consultant and teacher and, when she finds the time to get to her art studio, works in fused and cast glass. She has been on Melton faculty in Portland since its first year.

RABBI JOSHUA STAMPFER
was born in Jerusalem. He received his M.S. from the University of Akron, his M.H.L. from the Jewish Theological Seminary, and his D.H.L. from the University of Judaism. He served as Rabbi at Congregation Neveh Shalom from 1953 to 1993. Rabbi Stampfer is board member of the National Peace Now Organization, an appointee to the Oregon Government Ethics Commission, an Adjunct Associate Professor at PSU, and founder and Executive Director of the Institute of Judaic Studies. This is his sixth year on the Melton faculty.

CAROLE GLAUBER
is a photographer, photo-historian, and author. She received her Masters in Education from the University of Idaho and B.S.Ed. in History from Northern Illinois University. In recent years she has taught History of Photography at Mt. Hood Community College and served as scholar/lecturer for the Oregon Humanities Chautauqua program. Her publications have introduced readers to early photographers Lily White, Sarah Ladd, Myra Albert Wiggins and Isabella Bird. Oregon Public Broadcasting featured her on their program about the Columbia River Gorge, The River They Saw. She is the recipient of research fellowships from the Winterthur Museum, and Oregon Humanities, and grants from the Peter E. Palmquist Memorial Fund for Historical Research, the Regional Arts and Culture Council, Northwest Women’s History Project and National Coalition of Independent Scholars.

RABBI ARIEL STONE
of Congregation Shir Tikvah has a Master’s degree in Hebrew Letters. In early 2010 she was awarded a Doctor of Jewish Studies degree from Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies in Chicago for her work bringing insights from medieval Jewish mysticism to modern issues of community, under the direction of Dr. Byron Sherwin. A native of Orlando Florida, she was ordained a rabbi by Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (Reform) in 1991. She received her B.A. in International Studies magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Emory University in Atlanta. She serves as adjunct faculty in the Religious Studies departments of Portland State University and Willamette University of Salem, and from 2007-2009 she served as President of the Oregon Board of Rabbis.