Guest Speaker: Rabbi Michal Ken Tor who will give an update from Israel. 

Rabbi Michal Ratner Ken Tor was born in Kibbutz Geva, grew up on Moshav Kfar Yehezkel in the Jezreel Valley, and is the fifth child from a Zionist family who made Aliyah in 1968 from the USA. After her military service as an officer, Michal attended Bar Ilan University where she studied  Political Science and Communications. She continued her education in Jewish Studies at the Schechter Institute where she received her MA.

Michal is a creative and innovative Jewish leader, heading a new community in the Megiddo Regional Council as part of its work for the Israel Reform Movement. She also teaches Talmud and Tefila (prayer) at the Reform Movement's Mechina in Jaffa.