(NEWTON, May 20) Daniel Lehmann, a leading Jewish educator and founding headmaster of Gann Academy-The New Jewish High School of Greater Boston, has been chosen as President-Elect of Hebrew College. He will become the College’s eighth president on July 1.
Lehmann will succeed Dr. David M. Gordis, who has served as president of the 87-year-old college since 1993. Gordis has been named President Emeritus.
“Rabbi Lehmann has a distinguished track record, in Boston and nationally, as a visionary Jewish leader and educator, seasoned administrator and successful fundraiser,” said Ted Cutler, outgoing Chairman of the Board of Trustees, who led the search for a new president. “He has the entrepreneurial and organizational talents to build on David Gordis’s outstanding legacy of innovation at Hebrew College.”
Currently a consultant to Jewish day schools in Connecticut and Montreal, Lehmann served as Founding Headmaster of Gann Academy, an internationally acclaimed pluralistic Jewish day high school in Waltham, Mass., from 1996–2007. In 2001 he was a recipient of the national Covenant Award for innovation and excellence in Jewish education.
Lehmann received his rabbinic ordination from Yeshiva University in 1994. He is currently a dissertation fellow at the Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education at Brandeis University, completing his PhD from New York University’s Steinhardt School of Education.
His two decades in the field of Jewish education have included roles as upper school principal at Beth Tefiloh Community Day School in Pikesville, Maryland; faculty member of Me’ah, Hebrew College’s two-year intensive adult education program, and
faculty member of the Wexner Heritage Foundation; and co-director of Melamdim, a training program for Jewish studies teachers in North American and Israeli Jewish high schools, co-sponsored by the Shalom Hartman Institute and Tel Aviv University.
Lehmann is Founding Director of BIMA, a residential summer arts camp for Jewish high school students in the Berkshires, and co-founder of the Training Institute for Community High Schools of North America of the Shalom Hartman Institute. Over the past 30 years, he has also served as rabbi and cantor for High Holiday services at congregations throughout the Northeast, in Canada and Paris, France. An internationally renowned leader of Jewish pluralistic education, Lehmann has also been active in interreligious education and theological discourse.
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Hebrew College
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