Ori Weisberg holds a PhD. in Renaissance English Literature from the University of Michigan; He has served as Visiting Assistant Professor at Michigan State University in English and Jewish Studies and as a Golda Meir Post-Doctoral Fellow and Guest Lecturer at The Hebrew University and currently lectures at Hebrew University and the Kibbutz Seminar College; Dr. Weisberg is also the composer of "Hashoshanim," a world-beat setting of the entire text of Shir Hashirim in an 18-song song cycle. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife and three young children.