Founding director Rabbi Abie Ingber is a bridge builder. Throughout his rabbinic career, he has worked to bring together people from diverse communities, matching good people with opportunities for good deeds.

For more than three decades Ingber served as the executive director of the Hillel Jewish Student Center in Cincinnati. He now serves as adjunct faculty in the Department of Theology at Xavier and as a lecturer in homiletics at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.

Together with several colleagues at Xavier, he created the award-winning exhibit, "A Blessing to One Another: Pope John Paul II and the Jewish People." His creatively articulated passion for life and Tikkun Olam (healing the world) brought him to audiences with Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI. Ingber was one of the founders of the student movement for human rights for Soviet Jewry, and he remains a passionate voice for social justice.