Noam Zion, now emeritus at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem (1978-2022), studied both
philosophy and rabbinics at Columbia University, Hebrew University, JTSA and Hartman
Institute.

His popular publications promote Homemade Judaism – empowering families to create their own
pluralistic Judaism during home holidays – Pesach, Hanukkah and Shabbat.
His multidisciplinary educational study guides focus on family conflicts.
His academic research is devoted to the intellectual history of philanthropy, to Talmudic
approaches to marriage, and his latest book is Sanctified Sex: The 2000 Year Jewish Debate on
Marital Intimacy (JPS, 2021)

He is the author of
• The Family Participation Haggadah: A Different Night;
• A Night to Remember: The Haggadah of Contemporary Voices;
• A Different Light: The Hanukkah Celebration;
• A Day Apart: Shabbat at Home;
• as well as a three volume series on Tzedakah and a nine-volume series on Talmudic Marital Dramas.

Mishael Zion, Noam Zion’s son, is co-author of A Night to Remember: The Haggadah of Contemporary Voices.  He is Faculty in Residence of the Shalom Hartman Institute in the San Francisco Bay Area and the Director of the Mandel Leadership Institute’s Program for Leadership in Israeli Jewish Culture. He is also a fellow in the Kogod Research Center.

He served as co-Director and rabbi of the Bronfman Fellowships, a leadership program for outstanding young Jewish people in Israel and North America.  He holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology and Jewish thought from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and rabbinic ordination from Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School in New York.  He has served as a faculty member at the Skirball Center for Adult Jewish Learning in New York, and has been a visiting scholar at the New York University School of Law.

He and his wife, Elana, a neuroscientist, have four daughters. Together they founded the Klausner Minyan, a partnership minyan in Talpiot.