The Melton Centre for Jewish Education - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Leon Wiener Dow teaches Talmud and Jewish philosophy at Kolot and at Bina’s Secular Yeshiva. He founded and formerly directed Ta Shma: Pluralistic Jewish Education, now a division of Melitz, which developed an educational methodology based on mahloket. A doctoral candidate at Bar Ilan University , he is writing his dissertation on constructing a philosophy of halacha based on the thought of Franz Rosenzweig. Leon received his B.A. magna cum laude from Princeton University, where he studied in the Department of Religion and the Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs; his M.A. in Jewish Thought from the Hebrew University of Jerusaelm; and private rabbinic ordination from Rabbi David Hartman. A native of Houston , Texas , Leon moved to Israel in 1992. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife Bruria and their five children.