Mira Regev

Mira is the madricha and supervisor for this year's Bronfman fellowship Shnat Sherut group, a group of Israeli volunteers who spent a year of their time between high school and army to working in the community. One of the projects that the Shnat Sherut group is undertaking together with Mira is working with teenage drug addicts in Jerusalem's Kiryat Menachem Matnas (Israeli equivalent of America's JCC), youth who are currently outside of the state education framework. Her latest project with this group is the production of a short film about their daily lives in the Jerusalem neighborhood of their childhood. The process of making this film is one of introspection and self-examination, leading to greater self-awareness and maturity. After the bus bombing in Kiryat Menachem, Mira worked closely with both the Shnat Sherut and Matnas group providing trauma counseling and a listening ear.

In addition to this commitment, Mira continues to act as the Rabbinic intern of the Reform Movement's youth wing NOAR TELEM, a position that involves leadership training, writing educational material for members of all ages, and running seminars and summer camps. Mira has completed two years of her Rabbinical training at HUC, (Hebrew Union College) and is presently on leave from her studies in order to concentrate on educational work with youth.

Born and raised in an Orthodox Jerusalem home, Mira served in the Hevra L'Haganat Hateva (Wildlife Protection Society) during her army service, and went on to gain her BA from Hebrew University in Jewish philosophy. She is a Reiki master and has taught informally at Levanah, an alternative center for spiritual Judaism at the Hillel of the Mount Scopus Hebrew University campus. Mira is hoping to develop women's issues of emotional and physical health in Israel. She is currently completing both her MA on the topic of the Zohar and Kabbalah as well as a teaching certificate at the Hebrew University. In the second semester of this academic year she will be teaching Zohar to B.A. students on campus. She is currently living in Givat Yearim, a suburb of Jerusalem.