Dr. Calderon has MA and PhD degrees in Talmud from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1989, after studying at the Hartman Institute, she established the first Israeli secular, pluralistic, and egalitarian Beth Midrash. In 1996, she founded ALMA, which seeks to acquaint secular Israelis with Hebrew culture. From 2013-2015, she was a Knesset Member from the Yesh Atid Party, where she was Deputy Speaker and Chair of the Lobby for Jewish Renewal.