Rabbi Alan Abrams

Rabbi Alan Abrams (Agency Summer CPE) is a Conservative rabbi and a supervisor in the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education. He holds master's degrees in Talmud and in Public Policy. Rabbi Abrams is currently a doctoral student and Jim Joseph Fellow in the Education and Jewish Studies program at New York University. His research interests involve increasing our understanding of how the development of empathetic skills and spiritual leadership can be fostered through educational processes and how practitioners with those skills can influence Jewish identity among those they care for in key life-cycle moments—birth, death, illness, and marriage.

The Reverend Beth Glover

The Reverend Beth Falk Glover (Clergy part-time CPE) is the corporate director of Pastoral Care and Education for New York- Presbyterian, the University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell. She has been a supervisor at the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE) for 15 years.

Dr. Glover earned her doctor of ministry degree in Pastoral Care and Supervision at the New York Theological Seminary and her master's of sacred theology degree in Christian Spirituality at the General Theological Seminary. She has done extensive training in Family Systems Theory, in which she also holds certification.

Daniel Silberbusch

Daniel H. Silberbusch (Summer CPE, Extended Hospice CPE, Faculty) is a supervisory resident with the Center for Pastoral Education.

He previously taught courses in Spiritual Counseling and Reflection at Kehillat Yakar and the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem, while also serving as Director of Facilitation for Encounter, an organization devoted to transform the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He has also been an educator in youth programs: Nesiya and Kevunim.

Chaplain Silberbusch has served in hospital and prison settings and was active in September 11 long-term recovery operations. He is a student of Rav Mickey Rosen z"l of Yakar, an alumn of the DOROT fellowship, and holds and M.Div from Union Theological Seminary and a B.A. from Oberlin College. He lives in Manhattan with his wife, Oshrat, and their son, Solal.

Rabbi Jeffrey M. Silberman

Rabbi Jeffery M. Silberman (Faculty) is director of Spiritual Care and Clinical Pastoral Education at Norwalk Hospital in Norwalk, Connecticut. He previously held similar positions at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York and UCSF-Mount Zion Hospital in San Francisco.

Rabbi Silberman holds degrees from the University of Dayton, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, and Andover Newton Theological School. In addition to contributing chapters to six books, he has authored more than 30 articles in professional journals.

Rabbi Mychal Springer

Rabbi Mychal Springer (Summer CPE, Clergy part-time CPE, Extended Hospice CPE, Faculty) is the Helen Fried Kirshblum Goldstein Chair in Professional and Pastoral Skills and the director of the Center for Pastoral Education at The Jewish Theological Seminary.

A certified supervisor in the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education and a certified Jewish chaplain, Rabbi Springer served as associate dean and director of Field Education at The Rabbinical School of The Jewish Theological Seminary for seven years. During that time, she transformed field education and pioneered strategies in integrative teaching and learning for rabbinical students through her work as director of a grant from the Wabash Center.

Before coming to JTS, Rabbi Springer was the associate director of the Jewish Institute for Pastoral Care at the HealthCare Chaplaincy in Manhattan. She earned her BA at Yale College (1987), and ordination and a master's degree in Judaic Studies at JTS (1992).

Rabbi Springer lives in Manhattan with her husband, Jonathan Rosen, and their daughters, Ariella and Avital.

Rabbi Ute Steyer

Rabbi Ute Steyer (Faculty) received rabbinic ordination and a M.A. in Jewish Philosophy from The Jewish Theological Seminary in 2009. She is currently a doctoral candidate in Jewish philosophy at the Hebrew University. Her research interest is in the development of ethical thought in rabbinic literature and contemporary Jewish thought.

Rabbi Steyer works as the research and program manager in the Center for Pastoral Education and as adjunct lecturer in Pastoral Theology at JTS. Prior to this she was the program director of the Yeshiva University Center for Jewish Law and Contemporary Civilization at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.

She is an alumna of Neubauer Fellowship and the Legacy Heritage Rabbinic Fellows Program at JTS, and the Graduate Fellowship in Jewish Law and Legal Theory at Center for Jewish Law of Yeshiva University/Cardozo School of Law.

Rabbi Simkha Weintraub

Rabbi Simkha Y. Weintraub (Faculty), LCSW, serves as rabbinic director of the Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services (JBFCS), where his major responsibilities involve the New York Jewish Healing Center and the National Center for Jewish Healing (NCJH). He offers spiritual counseling and leads spiritual support groups for Jews confronting illness, trauma, and loss, and training seminars for rabbis and health care professionals.

Rabbi Weintraub has written and lectured widely on the use of traditional texts and practices for Jewish spiritual healing. He edited NCJH's first book, Healing of Soul, Healing of Body (Jewish Lights Publishing, 1994), and Guide Me Along the Way: A Jewish Spiritual Companion for Surgery (JBFCS/NCJH, 2002). He contributes regularly to the NCJH's journal, The Outstretched Arm, and many other books and periodicals.

Ordained by JTS, Rabbi Weintraub holds a master's degree in Clinical Social Work from Columbia University (1983) and graduated from the Couples and Family Therapy Program of the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health in New York (1988). He maintains a private practice in couples and family therapy in New York, working with clients who are confronting a wide range of issues, including chronic illness, infertility, trauma, and bereavement.