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Noam Zion

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Noam Sachs Zion was born to American parents fighting in the Hagana in Jerusalem in 1948. He grew up in an egalitarian Conservative rabbi's home in Minneapolis and studied general philosophy at Columbia in the late sixties. He was a member of the New York Havurah and was sent by the Israeli consulate to the USSR in 1968 to make contact with Soviet Jews (where after two months the KGB accused him of spying and expelled him). During the Yom Kippur War he made aliyah and then taught for Young Judea, WUJS, Habonim, HUC and Pardes.
Since 1978 he has studied and taught at the pluralist Shalom Hartman Institute for Advanced Jewish Studies, headed by Rabbis David and Donniel Hartman. He has served as coordinator of the Russian Scholars program, of t
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