Zohar Atkins is a rabbi, poet, and the founder of Etz Hasadeh, A Center for Existential Torah. He holds a DPhil in Theology from Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and semikha from the Jewish Theological Seminary, where he was a Wexner Graduate Fellow. He received both an MA and BA from Brown University. In 2016, The Jewish Week named him one of the “36 under 36 Changemakers in Jewish Life.” The winner of a 2018 Eric Gregory Award for Poetry, Zohar is the author of Unframing Existence and Nineveh.