Meet the Leibs

Rabbi Jason and Chana Leib are the JLIC couple at Cornell University.

A native of Chicago, Rabbi Jason Leib attended Yeshiva University and made aliyah in 2000. He studied for three years at Beit Morasha in Jerusalem and went on to teach at Yeshivat Hakibbutz Hadati in Ein Tzurim. In addition to teaching Talmud and Jewish Thought, Jason served as a mentor at the Daroma student beit midrash at Ben Gurion University for the past four years, where he taught a wide array of Jewish topics.

Chana Leib was born in Cleveland, Ohio and made aliyah as a young child. As a teenager, Chana was frequently involved with various informal education programs. She studied Talmud at Migdal Oz, the Bet Midrash for Women, and subsequently earned a degree in Law and Liberal Arts (LLB) from Hebrew University. Since graduating in 2004, Chana worked in the legal field, most recently as a legal assistant for a judge in the District Court of Be'er Sheva. Chana is almost finished with her Masters in Law (LLM) through a joint program between Tel Aviv University and Northwestern University.
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