resource persons

 

Lauri Kamm, Administrator, CG; BS, Business Management, Husson College, Bangor, Maine; licensed real estate broker; Certified Property Manager (contact@cg.org).

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Laura Bernstein, MA, University of Chicago; rabbinical studies, Hebrew Seminary of the Deaf; leader and composer of interfaith chants; author of poetry and articles on spirituality; co-author of Healing the Jewish-Christian Rift.
 

Herbert W. Bronstein, regular CG faculty; Senior Rabbi Emeritus, North Shore Congregation Israel; ­editor, Liturgies for the Reform Movement; lecturer, Lake Forest College; scholar of comparative religions; Trustee, Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions.
 

Joseph Elder, Chair, International Interreligious Peace Council; Professor of Sociology and Languages and Cultures of Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison; long active in non-official mediation, Quaker Peace Service (London).
 

Tom Hoberg, regular CG faculty; Ph.D., Literature, University of Chicago; Professor of English, Northeastern Illinois University.
 

Rosemary Hurwitz, MA, PS, Loyola University; twenty years experience in career consulting and in leading retreats for Discovery weekends; over ten years studying the Enneagram, receiving her certification in 2001; www.spiritdrivenliving.com.
 

Fatima Ahmad Imam, regular CG faculty; Ph.D., University of Toronto; M.Phil, History, Aligarh University, India; Assistant Professor of History, Lake Forest College.
 

Kenneth James, regular CG faculty; diplomate Jungian psychoanalyst in private practice in Chicago;  he received his Ph.D., Northwestern University; Diploma in Analytical Psychology, C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago; holds the rank of professor emeritus after thirty-three years of university teaching; currently the Director of Student Services at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools.
 

Carl Jerome, founding teacher, North Shore Meditation and Dharma Center; Lay Renunciate and Senior Dharma Teacher, Mid-America Buddhist Association; meditation teacher, Cancer Wellness Center, Northbrook; blog: http://northshoremeditation.blogspot.com.
 

Ellen Katz, MS, Columbia University and California State University; psychotherapist, co-producer and creator of the documentary/educational video, “When Healing Hurts: A Guide for the Codependent;” past consultant, children’s program, Betty Ford Center.

 
Jerrol Leitner, regular CG faculty; M.A., Theology, St. John University, Collegeville, MN; M.A., English, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL; retired; 40 years teaching English and Theology; former English department chair, St. Viator High School, Arlington Heights.
 

Jeff Mishur, co-owner of Art Excursions, Inc., providing art-related tours and lectures in Chicago and nationwide;  member, Illinois Humanities Council's Road Scholars Speakers Bureau; has taught Art History and Art Appreciation at the university level for more than fifteen years.
 

Evan Moffic, regular CG faculty; Stanford University; Hebrew Union College; Senior Rabbi, Congregation Solel.
 

Ahmad Sadri, regular CG faculty; Ph.D., New School for Social Research; College Professor of Islamic World Studies, Lake Forest College; author of several books, in Persian and in English, including Max Weber’s Sociology of Individuals.
 

Isaac Serotta, MA, Jewish Education, Hebrew Union College; senior rabbi, Lakeside Congregation; past Rabbinic Vice President, American Reform Zionist Association; new president, Chicago Conference of Reform Rabbis.
 

Nancy Tuchman, regular CG faculty; Ph.D., Aquatic Ecology; Vice Provost and Professor of Biology, Loyola University Chicago; special focus on human impacts on aquatic ecosystems, global climate change, and environmental sustainability.

Pauline Viviano, Ph.D., Biblical Languages and Literature, St. Louis University; Associate Professor of Theology, Loyola University, Chicago; recently completed a commentary on the Books of Jeremiah and Baruch for the new Collegeville Commentary Series.