Rabbi Seth Goren

Rabbi Seth Goren created a Project Zug course for Repair the World when he was the Director of Repair the World: Philadelphia. Now, he is Hillel Ontario's Chief Education & Campus Officer. After earning a B.A. and M.A. in Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania and teaching English in the Czech Republic, Seth received his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1998, interned at the Israeli Ministry of Justice, and practiced human rights, commercial, and consumer protection law. His commitment to interfaith community and justice led him to Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion's rabbinical school as a Wexner Graduate Fellow. He served previously as the Executive Director of Repair the World: Philadelphia and as the first Director of Jewish Student Life and Associate Chaplain at Lehigh University, where he also taught courses on interfaith dialogue and Jewish law. He is an avid Bruce Springsteen aficionado and the proud father of Liana, age eight.