Rabbi Dr. Aharon Ariel Lavi is the Managing Director of the Ohr Torah Interfaith Center, working to make religion part of the solution to global challenges. Founder of the MAKOM and Hakhel networks of intentional communities (both won the Jerusalem Unity Prize, awarded by the President of Israel). His PhD deals with idea migration between the U.S. and Israel, and his postdoc fellowships at the  Harvard Divinity School and Bar Ilan University’s Ma’ayan Institute focused on Jewishly-informed community building. He lives with his wife and five children in Moshav Shuva on the Gaza border and is a mountain biking enthusiast.