our teachers

Get to know our rabbis and cantors who work at the Nathan Peter Levinson Foundation’s seminaries. As leading experts in rabbinical and cantorial training from Germany and abroad, they ensure the highest quality of our programs.

Rabbi Professor Yehoyada Amir

Professor Amir is a Reform rabbi, theologian and author of several monographs. He is Professor Emeritus of Jewish Philosophy at the Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion in Jerusalem. Professor Amir has had a great influence on the education of Reform rabbis in Israel. Between 2000 and 2009, he directed and established the Israel Rabbinic Program at HUC-JIR. From 2014 to 2018 he was President of MARAM (Israel Council of Reform Rabbis).

His research focuses on Jewish philosophers, in particular Franz Rosenzweig, and the development of Jewish theology after the Holocaust. His most important works include Engendering Judaism: An Inclusive Theology and Ethics (1998) and Da’at Ma’amina(Reason out of Faith: The Philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig; 2004).

Prof. Amir has been the rabbinical director of the Regina Jonas Seminary since 2024.

Rabbi Professor Bradley Shavit Artson

Professor Artson is a Conservative (Masorti) rabbi, scholar and author. He is Vice President and Professor of Philosophy at the American Jewish University and holds the Abner and Roslyn Goldstine Dean’s Chair at the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies in Los Angeles, California. Prof. Artson is the author of eleven books, including Renewing the Process of Creation: A Jewish Integration of Science and Spirit (2015) and God of Becoming & Relationship: The Dynamic Nature of Process Theology (2015).

Professor Artson has been the rabbinical director of the Abraham J. Heschel Seminary since 2024.

Cantor A. Ejnat Willing

Ejnat Willing is active in the Jewish Liberal Community of the Kassel Region “Emet weSchalom” in North Hesse and is also involved in Jewish projects and interreligious dialog beyond the region.

She has more than 25 years of experience in choir conducting and singing lessons. She has been performing as a prayer leader in various congregations in Germany since 2021. She is actively involved in religious education and community building.

A particular focus of her work is the liturgical development of worship, communication and interpersonal balance in the context of community development.

Ejnat Willing has been the cantorial director of the Louis Lewandowski Seminar for Cantor Training since June 2025.

Rabbiner Anita Kántor

Anita Kántoris the rabbi of the Independent Synagogue Community Berlin – Bet Haskala e.V. She comes from Budapest, where she studied at the Jewish Theological Seminary – the University for Jewish Studies. After graduating in religious education, she moved to Potsdam in 2014 to study Jewish theology and was ordained as a rabbi in 2020. She is co-founder and Dajan of the Progressive Central European Beit Din (CEBD), which was officially founded in January 2021.

Rabbi Anita Kántoris a research assistant at the Regina Jonas Seminar.

Rabbiner Dr. Ulrike Offenberg

Dr. Ulrike Offenberg is a rabbi, historian and research assistant at the Regina Jonas Seminar. As a rabbi, she looks after the Jewish community of Hameln and the Liberal Group of the IRGW Stuttgart. She also works as a journalist, writes for radio, print and online media and is involved in interfaith dialog. In the “Network Lower Saxony”, she coordinates educational programs and initiatives for Christian-Jewish dialogue. As a board member of the European Rabbinic Assembly (ERA), the European umbrella organization of liberal rabbis, she promotes collegial cooperation and further education across national borders. She is currently working on a monograph about Rabbi Regina Jonas.

Rabbi Netanel Olhoeft

Netanel Olhoeft is a rabbi in the Jewish community of Oldenburg and a research assistant at the Abraham J. Heschel Seminar and the School of Jewish Theology at the University of Potsdam. He is currently working on his dissertation in the field of Halacha. Further research interests include Jewish religious and intellectual history, medieval and modern parshanut as well as interreligious theology and relations.

Rabbirabbi Cheryl Peretz

Cheryl Peretz is a rabbi and dean of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies. She has served as a congregational rabbi in Conservative (Masorti) synagogues in Los Angeles and has served as a visiting rabbi in various parts of the United States. Rabbi Peretz also works as a consultant to Jewish congregations, synagogues and individuals, supporting their professional and spiritual growth. She is a dedicated teacher and author of articles and chapters on various aspects of Jewish life.

Rabbi Cheryl Peretz is deputy rabbinical director of the Abraham J. Heschel Seminary.

Cantor Amnon Seelig

Amnon Seelig is cantor of the Jewish community in Mannheim. He studied singing and music theory at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance (both with a B. Mus) and at the Karlsruhe University of Music (M. Mus). He also studied Jewish Studies at the University of Potsdam and wrote his master’s thesis in 2015 on Cantor Hirsch Goldberg and synagogal music in Braunschweig in the 19th century. In the same year, he completed the cantor seminar at the Abraham Geiger College.

Amnon Seelig was cantor at the Jewish Community of Berlin and the Jewish Community of Düsseldorf before becoming cantor of the Jewish Community of Mannheim in 2017. He has performed as a guest cantor and soloist in numerous synagogues in Germany and Israel. He is a member of several vocal ensembles and was a founding member and baritone of the vocal trio “Die Drei Kantoren” between 2013 and 2021, which performs in Jewish communities throughout Germany. He has been the first chairman of the Association of Jewish Cantors since 2022.

Cantor Amnon Seelig is a guest lecturer at the Louis Lewandowski Seminar for Cantor Training.