2006: Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan

Camp Kesher is honored and delighted to have Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan as this year’s scholar-in-residence. Ever since Sinai, each generation of Israelites, Judeans, and Jews has been responsible for passing the Torah, literally and metaphorically, from one generation to the next. We have told stories, inscribed scrolls, sung songs, created symbolic foods, illuminated books, written plays, made movies—and now, in addition to it all, we send podcasts and post blogs. But what are the essential messages from Sinai? And how are we transmitting what is important to us? Looking over our shoulders at the past, and then back at ourselves, we will investigate our own storytelling potential as we celebrate our turn at telling our tale.

Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan is Rabbi and Senior Educator at Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco, as well as Senior Rabbinic Fellow of the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem and on the faculty of the Consortium for the Future of the Jewish Family. He was ordained in 1990 from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati and holds an undergraduate degree from San Francisco State University. Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2002 Covenant Award for Exceptional Jewish Educators.