Uri has served as Executive Director of the Slifka Center since 2018. He has overseen a significant increase in student engagement with Jewish life on campus, a major renovation of its 19,000 square foot building, a strengthening of organizational, staff, student, and...
As campus rabbi, Alex provides leadership, pastoral care, and intellectual and spiritual sustenance for the Yale Jewish community at large, and as co-director of JLIC at Yale he sees to the continued flourishing of observant Jewish life at Yale. He earned his PhD in...
Rachel Leiken is excited to begin working at Slifka as the Associate Jewish Chaplain. She comes to Slifka from Harvard University, where she has served for the past year as the Multifaith Engagement Fellow at Harvard’s Memorial Church. There, she worked to build...
Lauren Steinberg joined the Slifka staff in 2018 as Co-Director of JLIC at Yale together with her husband, Rabbi Alex Ozar. Lauren supports student life, pastoral care, and infrastructure; she loves hosting shabbat and holiday meals, catching up over walks, and the...
