Teachers at the Well
Rabbi David Ingber
Rabbi David A. Ingber is Founding Rabbi at Romemu. A disciple of Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, famed Founder of the Jewish Renewal movement, he was ordained by Reb Zalman in 2004. He is also the Senior Director of Jewish Life and the Bronfman Center at 92NY. Rabbi Ingber serves on faculty for the Wexner Heritage Program, The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America and Israel, and other institutions.
Rabbi Dianne Cohler-Esses
Rabbi Dianne Cohler-Esses is a Rabbi at Romemu as well as the Director of Lifelong Learning at Romemu. She was the first woman from the Syrian Jewish community to be ordained as a Rabbi. She graduated from the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1995, where she was awarded several fellowships and a prize for academic excellence. Before coming to Romemu, she served as Co-Director of the Bronfman Youth Fellowship, Scholar in Residence at UJA Federation, and Senior Educator at The Curriculum Initiative. In 2007 she was named one of fifty top rabbis by the Washington Post online. In 2019, she was inducted into the Brooklyn Jewish Hall of Fame. She and her husband, Larry, an investigative journalist, have three children and live on the Upper West Side of New York City, a stone’s throw from Romemu!
Wendy Miles
Wendy Miles, a doctor by trade, has always loved studying and speaking Hebrew. She is a lifelong student of Torah and regularly chants Torah and Haftorah in synagogue. She has taught Hebrew privately to many and is excited to have the opportunity of teaching Hebrew at Romemu, offering the keys to the Jewish heritage to a wider circle of people!
Jeremy Rosenshine
Jeremy grew up in Israel, where he lived for over 30 years. His experience teaching goes back to his days teaching soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces and,later, teaching Hebrew school in the United States. Jeremy is a graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Law where he was trained, among other areas, in ancient and modern Hebrew law. He practiced law in Israel for many years and has extensive experience as a Hebrew-English translator. Jeremy has been teaching Hebrew at Romemu since 2014. Jeremy is currently a member or Romemu’s Board of Trustees.
Ray Brahmi
Ray is a New York-based writer, actor, and educator who has worked as a guest lecturer at New York University and Bard College, and as an educator at the Museum of the Moving Image and the New York Historical Society. Ray has performed at the Public Theater and LaMAMA Etc., and holds a BFA and MFA from Bard College and Columbia University, where he received a Fellowship for Merit from the Columbia School of the Arts. He is a proud member of the Dramatist Guild, the Alliance for Jewish Theater, Actors’ Equity, and SAG/AFTRA. Ray was born in Montreal, raised in New York City, and is a first-generation descendant of Polish and Moroccan Jews. Ray is on the membership committee at Romemu and deeply inspired by Romemu’s clergy and congregation, and the values, interpretation, and approach to Judaism practiced by Jewish Renewal.