Zohar Raviv is an internationally renowned educator of Judaism whose academic and professional experience span Israel, North America, Europe, South Africa and Australia. Raviv holds a B.A in Land of Israel Studies from Bar-Ilan University, a Joint M.A in Judaic Studies and Jewish Education from Brandeis University, as well as an M.A in Near Eastern Studies and a PhD in Jewish Thought and Mysticism – both from the University of Michigan, where he was awarded the Marshall Weinberg Prize for Outstanding Graduate Work in Judaic Studies. Raviv is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish Thought at the Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies in Chicago and also serves as the Hebrew University Florence Melton Adult Mini-School Visiting Scholar to North America. Starting September 2009 Raviv will assume the position of Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies at Oberlin College.   

Prof. Raviv served as faculty in the Institute for Informal Jewish Education at Brandeis University, as well as Visiting Scholar in Residence at Monash University (Melbourne) and the Shalom Institute at the University of New South Wales (Sydney). His book on the eminent 16th century Safedian Kabbalist, Rabbi Moses Cordovero was recently published by VDM Verlag (Germany), and he is currently working on his second book, titled The Wondering Jew.