Rabbi Dr. Daniel Roth is the Director of Mosaica, Director Emeritus of the Pardes Center for Judaism and Conflict Resolution, and an adjunct faculty member. He has taught at Pardes for over twenty years. He also teaches graduate courses on religion and peace building at Bar-Ilan University’s Conflict Resolution, Management and Negotiation Graduate Program, as well as at Tel Aviv University’s International Program in Conflict Resolution and Mediation, and at Hebrew University’s Coexistence in the Middle East summer program. Roth initiated Pardes’s Mahloket Matters: How to Disagree Constructively and the 9Adar Project: Jewish Week of Constructive Conflict, known in Israel as DiburHadash: The Israeli Week of Mediation and Dialogue. Roth is a regular lecturer of MEJDI (multi-narrative) Tours and National Geographic. He was a senior research fellow at George Mason University’s Center for World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution. He holds a Ph.D. from Bar-Ilan University’s Conflict Resolution Program, MA in Talmud from Hebrew University, B.Ed in Jewish Philosophy and Talmud from Herzog Teachers’ College, and studied for eight years in Yeshivat Har-Etzion during which time he received rabbinic ordination.

Online articles / websites / blog:

• Talmudic Mediation: Conflicting Interpretations of the Talmud as Conflicting Needs in Society
• Roth, Daniel. “The Peacemaker in Jewish-Rabbinic and Arab-Islamic Traditions.” Journal of Religion, Conflict and Peace. Spring, 2011.
• Roth, Daniel. “Talmudic Mediation: Conflicting Interpretations of the Talmud as Conflicting Needs in Society.” Text & Texture, Nov. 2009.