Rabbi David Novak - J. Richard and Dorothy Shiff Professor at the University of Toronto. A founder and Vice President of the UTJ, founding faculty member of the Metivta and coordinator of the UTJ's Panel of Halakhic Inquiry. Author of numerous volumes on Jewish law, ethics, and philosophy, and a renowned expert on interfaith dialogue. His latest books are The Jewish Social Contract: An Essay in Political Theology (Princeton University Press, 2005), and Talking with Christians: Musings of a Jewish Theologian (Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2005).

Rabbi Ronald D. Price - Executive Vice President of the UTJ and the Dean of the Metivta. Co-creator of "Taking the MTV Challenge", a Jewish response to pop culture, which is now taught in more than 300 educational institutions across the denominational spectrum.

Rabbi Alan J. Yuter - Faculty member of the ITJ and adjunct faculty member of Fairleigh Dickinson University, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and Anne Arundel Community College. Author of many articles and papers on Jewish law and Jewish thought. Rabbi Yuter was ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary, Rabbi M.D. Tendler, and the Israeli Sephardic Rabbinate, and holds a Ph.D. in Modern Hebrew Literature from New York University. He is the spiritual leader of B'nai Israel Congregation, the orthodox synagogue of downtown Baltimore, Maryland.

Thanks to the generosity of our supporters, we are able to offer the classes without charge to individuals taking them not for credit (auditing).

For individuals taking the classes toward a credit at the Metivta, the technology fee is $250/semester. Financial assistance is available; for details please contact our office.

For synagogues registering as an adult education class, the fee is $400 per class, regardless of the number of people participating.

1. You need a relatively modern computer to participate in the program: Windows XP, Vista,or Windows 7 are fine. Your computer should have at least a Pentium 4 class processor, 2.4 GHz, 512Mb of RAM for XP. Any computer that can comfortably run Windows Vista will do. The so-called netbooks with Intel Atom class processor are not suitable to run the software. (If you use a Mac, there is a company that produces the software for OSX: http://www.mirial.com. The software cost there is 169 Euro and, unfortunately, we have no experience with it.)

2. A web-camera (a bult-in laptop or a monitor camera is fine).

3. A head set (headphones and a microphone) or a dedicated speakerphone.

If you or someone you know wishes to participate in our shiurim, please contact us at:

Phone: (201)801-0707 ext. 200
Fax: (201)801-0449

email: info@themetivta.org

or visit our web-site: www.themetivta.org