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| Caldwell |
- Congregation Agudath Israel of West Essex
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| Cherry Hill |
- Cherry Hill Area Me’ah Collaborative in conjunction with:
- Tri-County Board of Rabbis at the Betty and Milton Katz JCC in Cherry Hill
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| Princeton |
- Princeton Jewish Center
- Princeton Area Me’ah Collaborative in conjunction with:
- Princeton/ Mercer/Bucks Board of Rabbis
- Princeton/Mercer/Bucks Jewish Federation
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| Manhattan |
- Abraham Joshua Heschel School—Ansche Chesed Collaborative
- Central Synagogue
- Congregation B’nai Jeshurun—Congregation Habonim—Congregation Shaare Zedek Collaborative
- Congregation Or Zarua
- JCC in Manhattan
- Town and Village Synagogue
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| Bronx |
- Hebrew Institute of Riverdale—Conservative Synagogue Adath Israel of Riverdale Collaborative
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| Brooklyn |
- Kane Street Synagogue—Kolot Chayeinu—Park Slope Jewish Center Collaborative
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| Long Island |
- J Learn Rabbis Symposia at UJA—Federation of Greater NY—Long Island Branch
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| Westchester |
- Westchester Me’ah Collaborative in conjunction with:
- Westchester Board of Rabbis
- Northern Westchester Collaborative at Congregation Sons of Israel
in conjunction with:
- Bet Torah
- Pleasantville Community Synagogue
- Temple Beth El of Northern Westchester
- Temple Israel of Northern Westchester
- JCC on the Hudson in Tarrytown in conjunction with:
- The River Towns Jewish Consortium
- Mid-Westchester JCC in Scarsdale
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| Philadelphia |
- Greater Philadelphia Me’ah Collaborative in conjunction with:
- Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia
- BuxMont Collaborative in conjunction with:
- Congregation Beth Or (Host Site)
- Tiferet Bet Israel
- Or Hadash
- Temple Sinai (Host Site)
- Center City Collaborative in conjunction with:
- Congregation Beth Ahavah
- Congregation B’nai Avraham
- Congregation Kesher Israel
- Congregation Leyv Ha-Ir—Heart of the City
- Congregation Mikveh Israel
- Congregation Rodeph Shalom (Host Site)
- Germantown Jewish Centre
- Society Hill Synagogue (Host Site)
- Temple Beth-Zion Israel
- Old York Road Collaborative in conjunction with:
- Congregation Adath Jeshurun (Host Site)
- Congregation Beth Shalom
- Congregation Knesset Israel (Host Site)
- Congregation Kol Ami
- Melrose B’nai Israel Emanu-El
- Old York Road Temple—Beth Am
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Me’ah has over 40 faculty members from a diverse group of colleges and universities including Columbia, the Jewish Theological Seminary, NYU, Rutgers, Hebrew Union College, the University of Pennsylvania, the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, Princeton University and Haverford College.
Wendy Amsellem, a faculty member at Drisha Institute where she teaches Talmud and Jewish Law, is currently pursuing a PhD in Rabbinics at New York University. Dr. Amsellem is an alumna of the Drisha Scholars circle, a three year program of intensive study of Talmud and Jewish Law. She received an AB in History and Literature from Harvard University, has taught at the City College of New York and is a Core Faculty Member at the Skirball Institute for Jewish Education.
Shawn Zelig Aster, Assistant Professor of Bible at Yeshiva College, has taught at Bar-Ilan University, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Haifa University and Hebrew University in Israel. He holds a PhD in Bible and Assyriology from the University of Pennsylvania and an MA in Jewish Studies from McGill University.
Leora Batnitzky is Professor of Religion and acting director of the Program in Judaic Studies at Princeton University. She received a BA in philosophy from Barnard College, Columbia University and a BA in biblical studies from the Jewish Theological Seminary. She holds an MA and PhD in religion from Princeton University. She is the author of Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas: Philosophy and the Politics of Revelation (Cambridge, 2006) and Idolatry and Representation: The Philosophy of Rosenzweig Reconsidered (Princeton, 2000). In 2002, she received Princeton's President's Award for Distinguished Teaching.
Michael Chernick holds the Deutsch Family Chair of Jewish Jurisprudence and Social Justice at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, New York Campus. Rabbi Chernick received his ordination from Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University and his PhD from Yeshiva University. He is the author of three works on rabbinic interpretation of Scripture and an edited volume titled, Essential Papers on the Talmud (NYU Press, 1994). He created the summer Jewish studies program for Kibbutz Yahel, the first Reform kibbutz in Israel, and the UAHC Israel Study Kallah program.
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Eliezer Diamond is the Rabbi Judah A. Nadich Associate Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics at the Jewish Theological Seminary. He is the author of Holy Men and Hunger Artists: Fasting and Asceticism in Rabbinic Culture (Oxford University Press, 2002). Besides asceticism, his areas of interest include Talmudic and midrashic terminology, rabbinic narrative and Jewish law and the environment. A popular teacher and lecturer, Dr. Diamond has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and Stern College.
James Diamond teaches in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. He holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Indiana University and rabbinic ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary. From 1995–2004, Dr. Diamond was Director of the Center for Jewish Life at Princeton/Princeton Hillel. His experiences as a Me’ah instructor have, in part, led him to write his forthcoming book Stringing the Pearls: How to Read the Weekly Torah Portion – A Companion for Home and Synagogue (Jewish Publication Society, Spring 2008).
Hasia Diner is the Paul and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History at New York University with a joint appointment in the departments of History and the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies. She is also the Director of the Goldstein Goren Center for American Jewish History. She received her PhD in History at the University of Illinois-Chicago and is the author of numerous books. Among them: In the Almost Promised Land: American Jews and Blacks, 1915-1935 (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995); Lower East Side Memories: The Jewish Place in America (Princeton University Press; New Ed edition, 2002) and Her Works Praise Her: A History of Jewish Women in America from Colonial Times to the Present (Basic Books, 2003).
Glenn Dynner is a professor of Judaic Studies at Sarah Lawrence College. His book Men of Silk: The Hasidic Conquest of Polish Jewish Society was published by Oxford University Press in 2006 with support from the Koret Publication Prize for Jewish Studies, and was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Awards. As a Fulbright Scholar in Poland, Dr. Dynner discovered numerous archival sources on Hasidism. He holds BA and PhD degrees from Brandeis University and an MA degree from McGill University.
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Barat Ellman is a PhD candidate in Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Semitic Languages at the Jewish Theological Seminary. She teaches extensively in the areas of Bible, Rabbinic Commentary, Liturgy and Judaism in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Rabbi Ellman also works with individuals in preparation for life cycle events, including bar/bat mitzvah, marriage and conversion. Rabbi Ellman’s scholarly work focuses on biblical religion and ideology, and on literary and mythological motifs in the Hebrew Bible.
David Flatto writes and lectures on Maimonides, Jewish legal philosophy, and the critical and historical study of rabbinics. He is currently pursuing a PhD in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. His research focuses on the interdisciplinary fields of law and Jewish studies, specializing in rabbinic jurisprudence. Flatto received a BA degree and ordination from Yeshiva University, and a JD from Columbia University School of Law
Arnold Franklin earned a BA at Harvard College and a PhD from Princeton University's department of Near Eastern Studies. He has taught at New York University, Queens College, and University of California, Davis. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the department of Classical and Oriental Studies at Hunter College, where he offers courses on Jewish history, medieval Hebrew literature and Jewish thought. Dr. Franklin is completing a book, tentatively entitled Sharif of the Jews: Ancestry and Status in Medieval Islamic Society, which explores the profound concern with lineage that develops among Jews living in Muslim lands during the Middle Ages.
Benjamin Gampel, author and teacher, specializes in the Jews of the medieval and early modern world. He received his PhD from Columbia University and is the Eli and Dinah Field Professor of Jewish History at the Jewish Theological Seminary. Dr. Gampel edited Crisis and Creativity in the Sephardic World (Columbia University Press; New Ed edition, 1998), which is an account of the international conference held in commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the expulsion of the Jews from the Kingdom of Castile and Aragon. At present, he is writing a book on the pogroms and forced conversions of 1391 in the Iberian Peninsula and the effects of those events on the course of Jewish history.
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Idana Goldberg received her doctorate in History from the University of Pennsylvania where she studied Jewish history, American history and gender history and theory. Her work has focused on the origins of American Jewish civic culture in the 19th century, paying particular attention to the centrality of voluntary associations to Jewish identity and the importance of gender as an organizing principle of Jewish public life. Dr. Goldberg is currently the Director of Matching Grants at the Jewish Funders Network, an international organization dedicated to advancing the quality and growth of philanthropy rooted in Jewish values. She also serves on the Board of Directors of JOFA (Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance).
David Greenstein is Rosh HaYeshivah of The Academy for Jewish Religion (AJR), where he was ordained. He received a PhD in Kabbalah and Rabbinics from New York University; a BA (Philosophy) and MA (Talmud) from Yeshiva University; and an MFA (Painting) from Queens College. He is a Core Faculty member at the Skirball Center for Adult Jewish Learning at Congregation Emanu-El, New York. He is Associate Editor of the Academic Journal of AJR, a member of the Rabbinical Assembly, former Editorial Board member of Conservative Judaism, a member of CAJE and the NY Board of Rabbis.
Andrew Hahn earned his PhD in Jewish Thought from the Jewish Theological Seminary and was ordained as a rabbi by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, both in New York City. He is presently on the faculty of the Academy of Jewish Religion. He is also a resident scholar at CLAL. His rabbinate includes body-based practices grounded in movement and chant; Rabbi Hahn is known as the “Kirtan Rabbi.” He is working on two books: one on Jewish Meditation and modern physics, and the other on the concept of Chosenness.
Robert Harris is Associate Professor of Bible at the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS), teaching courses in biblical literature and commentary, particularly medieval Jewish biblical exegesis. He earned a BHL in Talmud, an MA in Judaica, an MPhil in Bible, rabbinic ordination and a PhD from JTS. Dr. Harris lectures on biblical narrative around the country; recent topics include "Unfolding the Text: An Introduction to Jewish Medieval Bible Commentaries," upon which a textbook project will be based; "Threes Become Four: How the Maxwell House Haggadah Became a Canonized Text"; and "That Kislev Affair: What Really Happened at Hanukkah?"
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Joel Hecker serves as Chair of the Department of Modern Civilization and as Associate Professor of Jewish Mysticism at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. Hecker received his PhD in Jewish Studies, specializing in Jewish mysticism, from New York University in 1996 and rabbinic ordination from Yeshiva University in 1990, as well as an MS degree in Jewish Philosophy also at Yeshiva University. His publications include: Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals: Eating and Embodiment in Medieval Kabbalah (Wayne State University Press, 2005) and he is now completing the first scholarly translation of Sefer Raziel ha-Mal'akh, an anthology of mystical and magical writings.
Tamar Jacobowitz is an advanced doctoral candidate in Midrash at the University of Pennsylvania. She is writing her dissertation on Leviticus Rabbah, a Midrash on the book of Leviticus, exploring the rabbinic discourse of the body in relation to reproduction, gender, disease and illness. Prior to graduate school, she studied Talmud and Bible at the Drisha Institute in New York City. She lectures on Bible and Midrash in communities throughout the country. Most recently, she taught an intensive mini-course for day school teachers about the pedagogy of Jewish texts at the American Jewish University in Los Angeles.
Jenna Weissman Joselit is a Lecturer with the rank of Professor in History, specializing in American studies and modern Judaic studies, at Princeton University and a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the John W. Kluge Center of the Library of Congress. The author of several award-winning books, including The Wonders of America: Reinventing Jewish Culture, 1880-1950 (Owl Books, 2002), and A Perfect Fit: Clothes, Character and The Promise of America (Holt Paperbacks; 2nd Rep edition, 2002), she is currently working on a cultural history of the Ten Commandments. Dr. Joselit received her PhD in History from Barnard College, Columbia University. She is a longtime columnist for The Forward where she writes a monthly column on American Jewish culture, as well as a frequent contributor to The New Republic and The New Republic Online.
Tamar Kamionkowski is Vice President for Academic Affairs, Academic Dean of Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and Associate Professor of Bible. She holds a BA from Oberlin College, an MTS, from Harvard Divinity School and a doctorate in Near Eastern and Judaic studies from Brandeis University. Dr. Kamionkowski is the author of Gender Reversal and Cosmic Chaos: Studies in the Book of Ezekiel (Sheffield Academic Press, 2003) and numerous articles on prophetic literature, priestly literature and feminist readings of biblical texts.
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Sharon Keller is Assistant Professor of Bible at The Jewish Theological Seminary, teaching biblical text courses as well as courses in biblical literature, the history of biblical Israel, and the literature and archaeology of the lands of the Bible. Dr. Keller’s most popular book, Jews: A Treasury of Art and Literature (Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, 1992), was awarded the National Jewish Book Award in 1993. Dr. Keller received BA and MA degrees from New York University's Hebrew Culture and Education program. She graduated from the joint program between The Jewish Theological Seminary and Columbia University's School of Social Work, receiving MA and MSW degrees. She received her doctorate in Hebrew and Judaic studies from New York University.
Naomi Koltun-Fromm is Associate Professor of religion at Haverford College. She studied Jewish history and classical Jewish texts at Barnard College, Stanford University and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She received her PhD in Jewish Studies at Stanford University. At Haverford, she teaches Hebrew Bible, biblical interpretation, early Jewish history and text, women and Judaism, Jewish-Christian polemics and the history of Jerusalem. Her primary research interests focus on early Jewish and Christian biblical interpretation. Dr. Koltun-Fromm returns to teaching this year after a fulfilling sabbatical year in Jerusalem in which she immersed in the study of biblical archaeology.
Eugene Korn is a scholar and teacher in the areas of Jewish philosophy, law and ethics, and Jewish-Christian relations. He earned a doctorate in philosophy from Columbia University and was ordained by the Israeli Rabbinate. Dr. Korn is the Executive Director of the Center for Christian-Jewish Understanding of Sacred Heart University, where he holds a chair in Christian-Jewish Studies. He has designed courses in Jewish thought, ethics and Jewish law, and taught Wexner Fellows and Jewish communal leaders. He is also editor of Meorot: A Forum of Modern Orthodox Discourse. Dr. Korn is currently writing a book on the significance of Tzelem Elokim (Image of God) in Jewish tradition.
David Kraemer is Joseph J. and Dora Abbell Librarian and Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics at The Jewish Theological Seminary, where he earned a PhD in Talmud and Rabbinics. As Director of the Library, Dr. Kraemer oversees the most extensive collection of Judaica—rare and contemporary—in the Western hemisphere. He is a prolific author and commentator. His books include The Mind of the Talmud (Oxford, 1990), Responses to Suffering in Classical Rabbinic Literature (Oxford, 1995), and The Meanings of Death in Rabbinic Judaism (Routledge, 2000). His most recent book is Jewish Eating and Identity Through the Ages (Routledge, 2007).
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Yael Levi Krumbein is a PhD candidate in modern Jewish history at Columbia University. Her dissertation research explores the impact of modernity on traditional society, focusing on a group of Lithuanian rabbinic leaders and their innovative responses to the challenges of modernity. She is a full time instructor of modern European history at Touro College and has taught Jewish history and Judaic studies for many years in area yeshiva high schools. She has taught in numerous adult learning programs, including those at the JCC of Manhattan, MJE, The Jewish Renaissance Center and WIT–The Women’s Institute for Torah. She has also led Jewish heritage tours in several countries.
Marcie Lenk is the Academic Director of Me’ah for the Northeast Region. She is the Schimberg Fellow at Harvard University, where she is a doctoral candidate in Early Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism. She has taught at Skirball Center at Temple Emanu-El, the Drisha Institute in New York City and Ma’ayan in Boston. A longtime resident of Jerusalem, she was on the Talmud faculty at Midreshet Lindenbaum, and taught Bible and rabbinics at Pardes Institute. She also taught at several Christian seminaries in Jerusalem, including the Tantur Ecumenical Institute, the Swedish Theological Institute and Ecce Homo Convent. Lenk has an MS in Bible and a BA in Judaic Studies and Mathematics from Yeshiva University, as well as an MTS degree from Harvard Divinity School.
Sarra Lev received her PhD from New York University in Rabbinics where she developed and taught an undergraduate course in gender and Judaism. She has written on the ritual of the suspected adulteress, the barren woman, the eunuch and gender crossing, and status changes in rabbinic texts. In 1996, Sarra cofounded Bat Kol: A Feminist House of Study, which featured teachers including Judith Plaskow, Martha Ackelsberg, Susannah Heschel and Daniel Boyarin. The program ran for three years in Jerusalem and taught women traditional texts using a feminist analysis. Dr. Lev is currently the chair of the Department of Rabbinics at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, where she teaches Midrash and Talmud to Rabbinical students.
Barbara Mann is Associate Professor of Jewish Literature at The Jewish Theological Seminary. Her areas of expertise include Israeli and Jewish literature, cultural studies, modern poetry, urban studies, literary modernism and the fine arts. Dr. Mann's current research concerns the relationship between literature and the fine arts in 20th century Jewish culture. Dr. Mann is the author of A Place in History: Modernism, Tel Aviv and the Creation of Jewish Urban Space (Stanford University Press, 2005) in addition to numerous scholarly articles. She is currently Coeditor-in-Chief of Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History. Dr. Mann received her BA in Jewish studies and English literature from Boston University, her MA in English literature from New York University and her PhD in comparative literature from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Annie Polland is the Director of Education and History at the Eldridge Street Project, a not-for-profit organization stewarding the architectural restoration of the 1887 Eldridge Street Synagogue. She has served as a Visiting Professor of History at The Jewish Theological Seminary’s List College since 2000. Her dissertation, “The Sacredness of the Family: New York’s Immigrant Jew and Their Religion, 1890–1930” examines how East European immigrants adapted Judaism to America. Dr. Polland received her PhD from Columbia University.
Ora Horn Prouser is Executive Vice President and Academic Dean at the Academy for Jewish Religion, a pluralistic rabbinical and cantorial school located in Riverdale, N.Y. She received her PhD from the Department of Bible and Ancient Semitic Languages and Literature at The Jewish Theological Seminary where she was adjunct faculty for 16 years. Dr. Prouser has written and published widely in scholarly journals on topics such as literary approaches to biblical study, and feminism and gender issues. She served as an academic consultant with the Melton Center for Research in Jewish Education on its development of Bible curricula for Day Schools through the MaToK Bible curriculum and the Jewish Day School Standards and Benchmarks Programs.
Gary Rendsburg is the Blanche and Irving Laurie Professor of Jewish History at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J. He currently serves as Chair of the Department of Jewish Studies and also has a joint appointment in the Department of History. Dr. Rendsburg pursued graduate work in Hebrew Studies at New York University where he received his PhD. His areas of special interest include literary approaches to the Bible, the history of the Hebrew language, the history of ancient Israel, and the literature and culture of ancient Egypt. Dr. Rendsburg is the author of five books and over 100 scholarly articles. His most popular book is a general survey of the biblical world entitled The Bible and the Ancient Near East, coauthored with the late Cyrus H. Gordon (W. W. Norton & Company; 4 edition, 1998).
Jeffrey Rubenstein is the Skirball Professor of Jewish Thought in the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies of New York University. He received his BA in Religion from Oberlin College, his MA in Talmud from The Jewish Theological Seminary, where he also received rabbinic ordination, and his PhD from the Department of Religion of Columbia University. He has taught at Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania and The Jewish Theological Seminary in addition to New York University. He is the author of several books, including The History of Sukkot in the Second Temple and Rabbinic Periods (Brown Judaica Series, 1995). Talmudic Stories: Narrative Art, Composition, and Culture (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999), Rabbinic Stories (Paulist Press, 2002), and The Culture of the Babylonian Talmud (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003).
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Nancy Sinkoff is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and History at Rutgers University. An historian of early modern/modern Ashkenazic Jewry, she was educated at Harvard-Radcliffe College, The Jewish Theological Seminary and Columbia University, where she earned her PhD in Jewish History in 1996. She is author of Out of the Shtetl: Making Jews Modern in the Polish Borderlands (Brown Judaic Studies, 2004). Dr. Sinkoff is particularly interested in how East European Jews and their descendents understand themselves intellectually and politically. She is widely published and is at work on a book-length historical study of Lucy S. Dawidowicz, an American-born historian of East European Jewry.
Jacob Staub serves as Professor of Jewish Philosophy and Spirituality and Chair of the Department of Medieval Jewish Civilization at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Wyncote, Penn, where he served as Academic Vice President for 17 years. He also directs the RRC Program in Jewish Spiritual Direction. He holds a PhD from the Department of Religion at Temple University and received Rabbinic Ordination from RRC. He teaches medieval Jewish history, philosophy and Parshanut Hamikra (Bible commentaries), as well as Jewish meditation, the contemplative reading of Jewish texts, and queering Jewish studies. He is the author of The Creation of the World According to Gersonides (Scholars Pr, 1982), coauthor of Exploring Judaism: A Reconstructionist Approach (Reconstructionist Press; 2 edition, 2000) and coeditor of Creative Jewish Education (Rosel Books; 1st ed edition, 1985).
Regina Stein is the Director of the Hadassah Leadership Academy, a Jewish leadership education program sponsored by Hadassah in select communities around the country. She has a BA in History from Brooklyn College, an MS in Information Systems from the City College of New York, and an MA and PhD in Jewish History from The Jewish Theological Seminary. Dr. Stein served on the faculty of the Academy for Jewish Religion and was an Associate at CLAL, the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership. She has taught for the Wexner Heritage Foundation and Bronfman Youth Program in Israel as well as The Jewish Theological Seminary, Temple University and the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem. She currently teaches at the Skirball Center for Adult Jewish Education at Temple Emanu-El in New York City.
David Stern is Ruth Meltzer Professor of Classical Hebrew Literature at the University of Pennsylvania and served for many years as Director of the Jewish Studies Program at Penn. Dr. Stern received a BA from Columbia College and a PhD from Harvard University. Specializing in classical Jewish literature and religion, he is the author of several books including Parables in Midrash: Narrative and Exegesis in Rabbinic Literature (Harvard University Press, 1994); Rabbinic Fantasies: Imaginative Narratives from Classical Hebrew Literature (Yale University Press, 1990), and Midrash and Theory: Ancient Jewish Exegesis and Contemporary Literary Studies (Northwestern University Press, 1998). Stern is currently working on a book entitled Through the Pages of the Past: Four Jewish Classics and the Jewish Experience which traces the history of the physical forms of the Talmud, the Rabbinic Bible, the Prayerbook, and the Passover Haggadah.
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Elsie Stern is an assistant professor of Bible at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Wyncote, PA. Before joining the RRC faculty she taught Bible and Jewish Studies at Fordham University in NYC and served as the director of public programs at University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Dr. Stern’s research interests focus on the use and transformation of biblical texts in Jewish settings. She is the author of From Rebuke to Consolation: Exegesis and Theology in the Liturgical Anthology of the Ninth of Av Season (Brown University, 2004) and is a contributor to the Jewish Study Bible and the forthcoming Women’s Torah Commentary, published by the Women of Reform Judaism. She is currently working on a project on the book of Esther in its biblical and later Jewish contexts
Lance Sussman is the senior rabbi of Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel in Elkins Park, Penn. Formerly Chair of the Jewish Studies Department at Binghamton University (SUNY), Rabbi Sussman has taught Jewish History at HUC-JIR (NY), Rutgers University (New Brunswick) and Gratz College. He is the author of Isaac Leeser and the Making of American Judaism (Wayne State University Press; New Ed edition, 1996) and an editor of Reform Judaism in America: A Biographical Dictionary and Sourcebook (Greenwood Press, 1993). Rabbi Sussman has published numerous articles on the history of American Jewish Bible translations, the origins of the interfaith movement, modern synagogue architecture and the separation of Church and State in the United States. He is currently working on a history of Jews and Judaism in Colonial Philadelphia.
Raquel Ukeles is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Fairfield University. Dr. Ukeles graduated from Princeton University and attended American University in Cairo's Center for Arabic Study Abroad, program in advanced Arabic and Islam. She received her PhD from Harvard University with a concentration in comparative Islamic and Jewish studies. As part of her doctoral program, she studied Jewish law at the Hartman Institute and at the MaTaN Institute in Jerusalem. Dr. Ukeles’ dissertation is entitled, “Innovation or Deviation: Exploring the Boundaries of Islamic Devotional Law.” More recently, she has engaged actively in Jewish-Muslim relations, including the publication of a monograph, The Impact of 9/11: The Emerging Muslim Community in America, and a policy paper, Locating the Silent Majority: Policy recommendations for improving Jewish-Muslim relations in America.
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Northeast Region Hebrew College Me’ah Advisory Committee |
Mimi Alperin, New York, NY
Madeleine Arnow, Scarsdale, NY
Martin I. Bresler, New York, NY
James Breznay, New York, NY
Gary Drevitch, New York, NY
Henry A. Echeverria, Princeton, NJ
Joel Greenblatt, Sands Point, NY
Raphy Haimowitz, Scarsdale, NY
Suzanne Denbo Jaffe, New York, NY
Samuel C. Klagsbrun, M.D., New York, NY
Ruth W. Messinger, New York, NY
Herbert Neuman, New York, NY
Mitchell L. Pashkin, Esq., Huntington, NY
Richard S. Pzena, Short Hills, NJ
Timothy Rucinski, Brooklyn, NY
Judith C. Siegel, New York, NY
Fredric J. Spar, Princeton, NJ
Vicki M. Weiner, New York, NY
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