Faculty
Rabbi Howard Avruhm Addison, teaches Humanities and Religion at Temple University. He is certified as an Enneagram teacher by Helen Palmer and as a fellow in Contemplative Group Leadership by the Shalem Institute. Ordained by JTS with over thirty years experience in the active rabbinate, Avruhm is the author of several books on Kabbalah, the Enneagram and interfaith traditions of Spiritual Guidance.
Barbara Eve Breitman, DMin, LCSW, itrains spiritual directors and teaches Pastoral Counseling at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. She is a psychotherapist and a teacher. A pioneer in the field of Jewish spiritual guidance, she is a certified fellow in Spiritual Direction by the Shalem Institute and co-editor, with Addison, of the book Jewish Spiritual Direction. Bobbi has been designated a Mashpia Ruchani by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi.
Rabbi Zari M Weiss has been among those at the forefront of bringing Spiritual Direction to the Jewish Community. Ordained by HUC-JIR, Rabbi Weiss is passionately interested in and committed to the intersection of Jewish Spirituality and Justice. Trained at the Mercy Center in California, she is a contributing author to Jewish Spiritual Direction and Tending The Holy. She chairs the CCAR’s Committee on Rabbinic Spirituality and served as Co-President of the Women’s Rabbinic Network.
Ann Kline, a long-time spiritual director, author and hospice chaplain, has spent much of the past decade facilitating, teaching and promoting group spiritual direction. A contributing author to Jewish Spiritual Direction, and The Lived Experience of Group Spiritual Direction, Ann has led workshops and retreats for the Shalem Institute for Spiritual Direction, and a host of Buddhist, Christian and Jewish organizations.
Julie Leavitt is an innovator in combining the fields of Authentic Movement and Jewish Spiritual Direction. A psychotherapist and mashpia to rabbinical students at Boston’s Hebrew College, Julie teaches of dance and creative movement at Lesley College. A contributing author to Jewish Spiritual Direction, she is both the choreographer and author of “A Midrash for Dina and Lilith.” She was given the title, Eshet Hazon by her community in 2003.