Al Benoliel is the director of education at Sephardic Adventure Camp, where he creates a curriculum exploring Sephardic customs, history and language. He is a Semikha student and Maybaum Sephardic Fellow at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and is studying toward a Master’s in Jewish History at Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies. Born and raised in Seattle, he now lives in New York with his wife.