Annual Horvitz Scholar In Residence Program February 2007

Our 2007 Horvitz Scholar: Noam Sachs Zion was born to American parents fighting in the Hagana in Jerusalem in 1948. He grew up in an egalitarian Conservative rabbi's home in Minneapolis and studied general Philosophy at Columbia in the late sixties.

He was a member of the New York Havurah and was sent by the Israeli consulate to the USSR in 1968. During the Yom Kippur War he made Aliyah and taught for Young Judea, WUJS, Habonim, HUC and Pardes. Since 1978 he has studied and taught at the pluralist Shalom Hartman Institute for Advanced Jewish Studies, headed by Rabbis David and Donniel Hartman. Noam's two particular interests are Biblical narratives (from a family dynamics or art perspective) and Jewish Family Education, especially using his A DIFFERENT NIGHT : The FAMILY PARTICIPATION HAGGADAH. During the Bill Moyers Genesis series in 1997 Noam was a consultant and contributor to the Moyers book "TALKING ABOUT GENESIS".
During 1998-2001, with a Covenant Foundation grant, he has been conducting Seder Leader Seminars throughout North America . In 2000, Noam published with Barbara Spectre a Hannukah set entitled "A DIFFERENT LIGHT: The Big Book of Hanukkah and The Hanukkah Book of Celebration. In 2004, A Day Apart: Shabbat at Home was published Noam and his wife Marcelle, the Lamaze teacher, have five children and live in Jerusalem .