Rabbi Ian Chesir-Teran is T’ruah’s Rabbinic Educator in Israel. For the past 10 years, Ian has co-run T’ruah’s experiential Year-in-Israel and fellowship programs for North American rabbinical, cantorial, and Jewish education students spending the academic year in Israel — focusing on civil rights and human rights issues in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. Ian earned a Bachelor’s degree in French Civilization in 1992 from Georgetown University, a juris doctor degree in 1995 from the Georgetown University Law Center, and was ordained as a rabbi in 2014 at the Jerusalem campus of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Ian made aliyah from South Orange, New Jersey in 2010. He is a member of Kibbutz Hannaton in the Jezreel Valley, where he lives with his husband Daniel and their three children, Eliezer, Yonah, and Tamar.
