Donny Inbar is the Director of Arts and Culture at the Israel Center of the San Francisco-based Jewish Community federation. He received his PhD (in Yiddish theater) from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkley. He has worked as a newspaper editor, a theater director and translator of prose, poetry and drama, and served as the Cultural Attaché at the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco. Donny Inbar is also a certified chef, having graduated from the California Culinary Academy.