Staff

Rabbi Shraga Sherman grew up in Sioux City, Iowa and graduated from public school. Raised in a Conservative Jewish home, he was active in United Synagogue Youth (USY), serving as its International President in 1982. Shraga attended the Wharton School and received his Bachelor of Science with concentrations in International Finance and Marketing. He went on to a course of intense Yeshiva study and received smicha, Rabbinic Ordination, from the Central Lubavitch Yeshiva of Israel. Shraga returned to Philadelphia in July 1991 to work with Lubavitch House in Center City, and eight years later moved to Merion to establish Lubavitch of the Main Line.

Rabbi Baruch Shalom Davidson was raised in Oak Park, Michigan and studied in Yeshivos in Israel, France, and New York. Rabbi Davidson has served for several years on the Ask-the-Rabbi team of Chabad.org and the curriculum team of the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute. He is the author of Lightpoints - Teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe on the Weekly Torah Portion (New York: Kehos Publication Society, 2020), co-editor of To the Sons and Daughters of our People Israel, Everywhere (New York: Kehos Publication Society, 2019), and a lead contributor in preparing the Rebbe's teachings for publication for the English-speaking community on behalf of Machon Ohr Hachassidus.

Batsheva Davidson hails from Cleveland, Ohio where her parents have served as Shluchim for over 35 years. She was a highly-acclaimed teacher at Yavneh in Cleveland and Bnos Menachem in New York, and is admired by young students and old for her sensitivity and Chassidic grace.