Hadar Aviram is a law professor at UC Law San Francisco, the author of four award-winning books, and an experienced civil rights pro-bono attorney, who comes to the GTU and CJS as a second-career rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College. She is completing her M.A. in Jewish Studies at CJS with a capstone project that combines her expertise in criminal justice and corrections with her interest in biblical studies and rabbinics. The book-length project, Behind Ancient Bars, is an examination of five biblical carceral stories--Joseph's incarceration in Egypt, Esther's confinement at the...