Board & Trustees

All Faiths Seminary International offers teachings grounded in a diverse interfaith group of advisors and mentors respected around the world for academic rigor and spiritual growth and education.

Seminary Board

  • Rev. Dr. Oluremi Alapo
  • Rev. K.L.S. Bhushan, Esq.
  • Rev. Dr. Frank Kaufmann
  • Iman Khalid Lateef
  • Rev. William McBride
  • Rev. Dr. Kathleen Regan
  • Rev. Denise Scotto
  • Guru Dileepkumar Thankappan

Seminary Officers

  • President: Rabbi Scott Matous, MSW, LCSW, CCFC
  • Dean: Rev. Dr. Kathleen Regan, MA, MDiv, PhD

Advisory Board

The Advisory Board assists as adjunct lecturers and/or readers of student papers:

  • Imam Shamsi Ali – Moderate and a revered scholar of the Koran, mediating between the diverse elements of the 800,000-member Muslim community in New York City.
  • Rev. Cynthia Burke – Outreach Director of Friends in Deed, a crisis center in New York City.
  • Charles B. Crenshaw Jr., M.S., M.Div. W – Graduate of New Seminary 1988, co-director of Inner Peace Yoga Center, consulting hypnotist & certified instructor of hypnosis.
  • Rev. August Gold – Founder of the Sacred Center of New York City.
  • Dr. Jana Klenburg, Ph.D. – Certified Expressive Therapist with a holistic practice in NYC.
  • Dr. John Kukor – Psychotherapist and Adjunct Professor in the Graduate Department of Mental Health Counseling, St. John’s University, NY.
  • Dr. Sam Menahem – Psycho-Spiritual Therapist, Fort Lee, NJ.
  • Rev. Lynne Matous, M.A. – Assistant in the review of student papers.
  • Dr. Scott Olsen – Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Religions, author of “The Golden Section: Nature’s Greatest Secret.”
  • Rev. Dr. Marilyn Zweig-Rossner – Co-founder of IIIHS.
  • Dr. Brenda Shoshanna – Practicing Psychologist and author.
  • Rev. Howard Westin – Retired Presbyterian Minister and specialist in The Aramaic Jesus and A Course in Miracles.
  • Dr. Robert Weltman – Retired Psychologist, former Chief Psychologist at Mid-Hudson Psychiatric Institution.
  • Rev. Mitchell J. Rabin, M.A., L.AC. – Founder & President of A Better World.
  • Marty Hara – Zen Buddhist practitioner and lecturer in Buddhism.
  • Rev. Leslie Blake – Hypnotist for past life regression, spiritual counseling.
  • Rabbi Mary (MJ) Newman – Chaplain Intern II, Yale New Haven Health.
  • Rabbi Yossi Zylberberg – Reform rabbi with a primary interest in spirituality.
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