First Covenant Foundation Directors
Michael Dallen, director and editor, founded First Covenant together with former Baptist Minister Jack E. Saunders, of blessed memory, and with Rabbi Michael Katz. Dallen, a lawyer and writer, grew up in Detroit. He lives in First Covenant's headquarters enclave/compound/retreat/asylum, in Detroit.
He wrote Rainbow Covenant: Torah and the Seven Universal Laws.
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Michael Dallen
First Covenant Foundation
2400 Woodstock
Detroit, MI 48203-1061
Call: (313) 891-1920
Jack E. Saunders, co-founder, 1948-2019
Rev. Jack Saunders and Michael Dallen first met in Athens, Tennessee, on January 15, 1992. They became fast friends, learning from each other, working and puzzling out the Universal Law together for 25 years, until Jack's health gave out. Jack Saunders was a working Baptist pastor when he started studying Torah. He became a conscious servant of the One and Only God - which means that he lived life as a devout student of the Torah. He was a gifted teacher of black-letter Scripture, of the Torah, Prophets, and Writings.
He helped write Rainbow Covenant.
He was known far and wide as "the Preacher." He lived and died as a God-loving, God-fearing man of God and a true Noahide scholar. With his loving wife, Joan, he arranged his own burial - in a plain wood casket - to take place the same day he died. He cheerfully anticipated getting all his many questions answered - as he put it, "by Moses himself."
Rabbi Michael Katz, our third founding director, has served as a rabbinic adviser to Noahides since 1989 (He was television news station CNN's "Guru to the Goyim.") Rabbi Katz worked with Michael Dallen and Jack Saunders on The Rainbow Covenant. He has provided First Covenant with rabbinic supervision - including pre-reviewing each issue of Covenant Connection - from the beginning. Rabbi Katz began his professional career in South Africa; he received semicha (rabbinic ordination) from Yeshiva Ner Israel in Baltimore. A revered kiruv ("outreach") rabbi, Torah-teacher, businessman, and writer, he lives in Miami, Florida, with his wife, Toby (daughter of Ohr Sameyach's late Rabbi Nachman Bulman, of blessed memory), and their family.
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Rabbi Michael Katz
Holyland
5650 Stirling Road
Hollywood, FL 33021
(954) 964-4288
After reading the Rainbow Covenant, Dr. Robert E. Buxbaum became a First Covenant director in 2013. A husband, father, engineer, scientist, lifelong Torah student, and teacher, Professor Buxbaum studied philosophy and chemical engineering at Cooper Union in New York City and later earned a doctorate in nuclear engineering from Princeton University. He manufactures scientific equipment, besides consulting, and sometimes writes incisive essays on everything under the sun. He lives just outside Detroit in Oak Park, Michigan.
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Dr. Robert E. Buxbaum
REB Research and Consulting Co.
Oak Park, MI 48237
(248) 545-0155
REB Research