Rabbi Crispe is a warm and engaging speaker who specializes in teaching the arts and sciences as seen through the lens of the Torah. His lectures have focused on: music, film, art, architecture, gender theory, psychology, education, economics, regenerative medicine and physics.

While living abroad, he spent a year as a research fellow for Mercaz Shalem, the national policy institute for public policy and social thought in Israel. He has also been a guest lecturer at numerous educational centers and universities, both in Israel and abroad, and has appeared both on television and radio programs.

Rabbi Crispe has served for seven years as the Educational Director of the Gal Einai Institute under Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh. He has also worked as technology futurist, and  has acted as a consultant on emerging trends relating to renewable energy, nanotechnology, robotics and biotech. His latest project is INTERiNCLUSION, a non-profit, multi-layered educational initiative based on social media, multi-user gaming, online video and e-learning techonologies.

Sara Esther Crispe—

Sara Esther Crispe is a professional writer and the creator and editor of the women’s site, www.TheJewishWoman.org, and the editor of the Society and Living section of www.Chabad.org, the largest Jewish website online today. Additionally, she is a well-known lecturer and leading speaker of women’s issues. She has spoken across America, as well as Europe, Canada and South America. Known for her clear and direct approach, she is able to take current and provocative issues and make them meaningful and personal to audiences of various backgrounds. While living in Israel for eight years, Sara Esther  and her husband were the directors of Torat Chesed: The Institute for Advanced Learning for Jewish Women. She has her BA from the University of California, San Diego in Literature/Writing and studied for her Master’s at Brooklyn College in Literary Theory where she was a lecturer of Composition. Sara Esther is currently working on a book celebrating gender difference according to Kabbalah. She lives with her husband and four beautiful children in Merion, PA.