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 Faculty Fields of Expertise
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Welcome to HUC-JIR's information site for news media. Our media representatives are always available to assist journalists in contacting faculty experts and obtaining the latest news of HUC-JIR research and achievementsBible and Cognate Studies Education History Language and Literature Philosophy/Theology Professional Development and Communal Service Rabbinics and Liturgy Sacred Music Bible and Cognate Studies David Aaron, Rabbi, Ph.D., Professor of Bible - Cincinnati Tamara Cohn Eskenazi, Ph.D., Professor of Bible - Los Angeles Nili Fox, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Bible - Cincinnati David J. Gilner, Ph.D., Director of Libraries; Associate Director, American Jewish Periodical Center - Cincinnati Samuel Greengus, Ph.D., Julian Morgenstern Professor of Bible and Near Eastern Literature and Professor of Semitic Languages - Cincinnati David Ilan, Ph.D., Director of the Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology - Jerusalem Isaac Jerusalmi, Rabbi, Ph.D., Professor of Bible and Semitic Languages - Cincinnati Stephen A. Kaufman, Ph.D., Professor of Bible and Cognate Literature - Cincinnati Yosef Leshem, Ph.D., Adjunct Assistant Professor of Bible - Jerusalem Amira Meir, Ph.D., Lecturer on Bible - Jerusalem S. David Sperling, Rabbi, Ph.D., Professor of Bible - New York David B. Weisberg, Rabbi, Ph.D., Professor of Bible and Semitic Languages - Cincinnati Andrea Weiss, Rabbi, Ph.D., M.A.H.L., Instructor in Bible - New York Education Isa E. Aron, Ph.D., Professor of Jewish Education - Los Angeles Shaul R. Feinberg, Rabbi, Ph.D., Adjunct Assistant Professor of Jewish Education and Liturgy - Jerusalem Lisa Grant, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Jewish Education - New York Tali Hyman, M.A.J.E., M.A.H.L., Assistant Professor of Education; Director of Jewish Programming, Day School Leadership through Teaching (DeLeT) - Los Angeles Samuel K. Joseph, Rabbi, M.A.H.L., Professor of Jewish Education and Leadership Development - Cincinnati Jo Kay, M.A., Lecturer on Jewish Education - New York Sara S. Lee, M.A.J.E., M.S.Ed., Adjunct Professor of Jewish Education - Los Angeles Michal Mushkat-Barkan, M.A., Instructor in Professional Development and Education - Jerusalem Michael Zeldin, Ph.D., Director of the Rhea Hirsch School of Education; Professor of Jewish Education; Director, DeLeT - Day School Leadership through Teaching - Los Angeles History Carole B. Balin, Rabbi, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Jewish History - New York Martin A. Cohen, Rabbi, Ph.D., Professor of Jewish History - New York Michael J. Cook, Rabbi, Ph.D., Sol and Arlene Bronstein Professor of Judaeo-Christian Studies; Professor of Intertestamental and Early Christian Literatures - Cincinnati Joshua Garroway, Rabbi, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Early Christianity and Second Commonwealth - Los Angeles Sharon Gillerman, Ph.D., Director of the Edgar F. Magnin School of Graduate Studies; Associate Professor of Jewish History - Los Angeles Joshua Holo, Ph.D., Director, Louchheim School of Judaic Studies; Associate Professor of Jewish History - Los Angeles Adam Kamesar, D.Lett., D.Phil., Professor of Judaeo-Hellenistic Literature - Cincinnati Jonathan Krasner, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of American Jewish History - Cincinnati Paul Liptz, M.A., Lecturer on Israel Studies - Jerusalem David Mendelson, Ph.D., Lecturer in Israel Studies and History - Jerusalem Michael A. Meyer, Ph.D., Adolph S. Ochs Professor of Jewish History - Cincinnati Bruce A. Phillips, Ph.D., Professor of Jewish Communal Service - Los Angeles Adam Rubin, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Jewish History - Los Angeles Racelle Weiman, Director, Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education - Cincinnati Gary P. Zola, Rabbi, Ph.D., Associate Professor of the American Jewish Experience - Cincinnati Language and Literature William Cutter, Rabbi, Ph.D., Steinberg Emeritus Professor of Human Relations - Los Angeles Helene Dallaire, Ph.D., M.A., M..Phil., Director of Hebrew Language Instruction - Cincinnati Rivka Dori, M.A., M.S., Director of Hebrew Studies - Los Angeles Susan L. Einbinder, Rabbi, Ph.D., Professor of Hebrew Literature - Cincinnati Haya Gavish, Ph.D., Teacher's Diploma, Lecturer on Hebrew Language - Jerusalem Sima Haruv, M.A., Lecturer in Hebrew Language - Jerusalem Michal Nachmany, M.A., Hebrew Coordinator, Lecturer, and Coach - New York Stanley Nash, Rabbi, Ph.D., Professor of Hebrew Literature - New York Hannah Saggie, M.A., Lecturer on Hebrew Language - Jerusalem Hannah Shafir, M.A., Teacher's Diploma, Lecturer on Hebrew Language - Jerusalem Yaffa Weisman, Ph.D., M.L.I.S., Library Director, the Frances-Henry Library, Los Angeles; Adjunct Associate Professor of Jewish Studies - Los Angeles Wendy Zierler, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Modern Jewish Literature and Feminist Studies- New York Sarah Bunin Benor, Associate Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies - Los Angeles Philosophy/Theology Rachel R. Adler, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Jewish Religious Thought and Feminist Studies - Los Angeles Yehoyada Amir, Ph.D., Academic Coordinator, Israeli Rabbinical Program - Jerusalem Eugene B. Borowitz, Rabbi, D.H.L., Ed.D., Sigmund Falk Distinguished Professor of Education and Jewish Religious Thought - New York David Ellenson, I.H. and Anna Grancell Professor of Jewish Religious Thought - New York Leah Hochman, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Jewish Thought - Los Angeles Barry S. Kogan, Rabbi, Ph.D., Clarence and Robert Efroymson Professor of Jewish Thought; Professor of Jewish Philosophy - Cincinnati Leonard S. Kravitz, Rabbi, Ph.D., Professor of Midrash and Homiletics - New York Michael Marmur, Dean, Rabbi, M.A., Lecturer on Modern Jewish Thought - Jerusalem Carol Ochs, Ph.D., Adjunct Associate Professor of Jewish Religious Thought - New York Haim O. Rechnitzer, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Jewish Thought - Cincinnati Professional Development and Communal Service Ruth Alpers, Rabbi, M.A.H.L., Lecturer on Human Relations and Clinical Pastoral Education - Cincinnati Sarah Bunin Benor, Associate Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies - Los Angeles Jerome K. Davidson, Rabbi, D.D., Lecturer on Human Relations - New York Kenneth E. Ehrlich, Rabbi, M.A.H.L., Lecturer - Cincinnati Naamah Kelman, Rabbi, M.A., M.A.H.L., Lecturer on Jewish Education - Jerusalem Richard N. Levy, Rabbi, M.A.H.L., D.D., Lecturer on Judaic Studie, Director of the School of Rabbinic Studies - Los Angeles Paul M. Steinberg, Rabbi, Ed.D., D.H.L., Eleanor Sinsheimer Distinguished Service Professor of Jewish Religious Education and Human Relations - New York Margaret M. Wenig, Rabbi, M.A.H.L., Lecturer on Homiletics and Liturgy - New York Nancy H. Wiener, Rabbi, D.Min., Adjunct Associate Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling - New York Steven F. Windmueller, Dean, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor of Jewish Communal Service - Los Angeles Rabbinics and Liturgy Lewis M. Barth, Rabbi, Ph.D., Professor of Midrash and Related Literature - Los Angeles Marc Bregman, Ph.D., Professor of Rabbinical Literature - Jerusalem Michael Chernick, Rabbi, Ph.D., Arthur-Dora-Morton Deutsch Professor of Jewish Jurisprudence and Social Justice; Professor of Rabbinics - New York Jonathan Cohen, Ph.D., L.L.B., Assistant Professor of Talmud and Halachic Literature - Cincinnati Norman J. Cohen, Rabbi, Ph.D., Professor of Midrash - New York Reuven Firestone, Rabbi, Ph.D., Professor of Medieval Jewish Studies - Los Angeles Edward A. Goldman, Rabbi, Ph.D., Professor Israel and Ida G. Bettan Chair in Midrash and Homiletics - Cincinnati Alyssa Gray, J.D., L.L.M., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Codes and Responsa Literature - New York Lawrence A. Hoffman, Rabbi, Ph.D., Professor of Liturgy - New York Sharon Koren, Ph.D., Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish History - New York David Levine, Rabbi, Ph.D., Lecturer on Talmudic Literature, Culture and History - Jerusalem Richard N. Levy, Rabbi, M.A.H.L., D.D., Lecturer on Judaic Studies, Director of the School of Rabbinic Studies - Los Angeles Dalia Marx, Rabbi, M.A., M.A.H.L., Lecturer in Liturgy; Lecturer in Midrash - Jerusalem Aaron D. Panken, Rabbi, Ph.D., M.A.H.L., B.E.S., Lecturer on Rabbinics - New York Zohara Pardes-Feinstein, M.A., Teacher's Diploma, Lecturer on Hebrew Language and Rabbinic Literature - Jerusalem Stephen M. Passamaneck, Rabbi, Ph.D., Professor of Rabbinics - Los Angeles Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi, Rabbi, M.A., M.A.H.L., Lecturer in Liturgy - Jerusalem Richard S. Sarason, Rabbi, Ph.D., Professor of Rabbinical Literature and Thought - Cincinnati Moshe Silberschein, Rabbi, M.A., Lecturer on Rabbinics - Jerusalem Mark Washofsky, Rabbi, Ph.D., Professor of Rabbinics - Cincinnati Dvora Weisberg, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Rabbinical Literature - Los Angeles Sacred Music Israel Goldstein, Cantor, M.S.M., Lecturer on Chazanut - New York Tamar Havilio, Cantor, M.A., M.S.M., Instructor in Cantorial Studies - Jerusalem Evan Kent, Cantor, M.P.A., Adjunct Instructor on Judaica Practicum -Los Angeles Mark L. Kligman, Ph.D., B.M., Associate Professor of Jewish Musicology - New York Joyce Rosenzweig, B.M., Artist-in-Residence - New York Benjie Ellen Schiller, Cantor, M.S.M., Professor of Cantorial Arts - New York Yvon F. Shore, Cantor, M.S.M., Director of Liturgical Arts - Cincinnati |
