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HUC-JIR's faculty is one of the most distinguished in the world and includes leading scholars in Bible, rabbinics, Jewish history, theology and philosophy, liturgy, human relations, archaeology, education, communal service, and related subjects. Faculty members have published important scholarly books and studies in leading academic journals. Their scholarship and teaching have been recognized by honors and awards from many academic institutions and organizations.
Some of the following links connect to a brief biography or a directory listing of a member of the HUC-JIR faculty. When available, titles of selected lectures to scholarly and synagogue audiences are provided, as are links to their electronic publications.
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David H. Aaron, Rabbi, Ph.D. |
Professor of Bible |
Cincinnati |
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Rachel R. Adler, Ph.D. |
Professor of Jewish Religious Thought and Feminist Studies |
Los Angeles |
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Yehoyada Amir, Rabbi, Ph.D. |
Professor of Jewish Thought |
Jerusalem |
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Isa E. Aron, Ph.D. |
Professor of Jewish Education |
Los Angeles |
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Carole B. Balin, Rabbi, Ph.D. |
Professor of Jewish History |
New York |
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Lewis M. Barth, Rabbi, Ph.D. |
Professor Emeritus of Midrash and Related Literature |
Los Angeles |
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Sarah Bunin Benor, Ph.D. |
Associate Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies |
Los Angeles |
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Eugene B. Borowitz, Rabbi, D.H.L., Ed.D. |
Distinguished University Professor; Sigmund Falk Distinguished Professor of
Education and Jewish Religious Thought |
New York |
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Michael Chernick, Rabbi, Ph.D. |
Arthur-Dora-Morton Deutsch Professor Emeritus of Jewish Jurisprudence and Social Justice;
Professor of Rabbinics |
New York |
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Jonathan Cohen, Ph.D., L.L.B. |
Dean, Cincinnati Campus; Director, HUC-UC Ethics Center; Director, The Starkoff
Institute of Ethics; Associate Professor of Talmud and Halachic Literature |
Cincinnati |
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Martin A. Cohen, Rabbi, Ph.D. |
Professor of Jewish History |
New York |
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Norman J. Cohen, Rabbi, Ph.D. |
Professor Emeritus of Midrash |
New York |
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Dr. Steven M. Cohen |
Research Professor of Jewish Social Policy |
New York |
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Michael J. Cook, Rabbi, Ph.D. |
Sol and Arlene Bronstein Professor of Judaeo-Christian Studies;
Professor of Intertestamental and Early Christian Literatures |
Cincinnati |
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William Cutter, Rabbi, Ph.D. |
Steinberg Professor Emeritus of Human Relations |
Los Angeles |
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David Ellenson, Rabbi, Ph.D. |
I.H. and Anna Grancell Professor of Jewish Religious Thought |
New York |
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Tamara Cohn Eskenazi, Ph.D. |
Professor of Bible |
Los Angeles |
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Shaul R. Feinberg, Rabbi, Ph.D. |
Adjunct Assistant Professor Emeritus of Jewish Education and Liturgy |
Jerusalem |
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Reuven Firestone, Rabbi, Ph.D. |
Professor of Medieval Jewish Studies |
Los Angeles |
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Nili S. Fox, Ph.D. |
Professor of Bible; Director, School of Graduate Studies |
Cincinnati |
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Joshua Garroway, Rabbi, Ph.D. |
Assistant Professor of Early Christianity and Second Commonwealth |
Los Angeles |
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Sharon Gillerman, Ph.D. |
Associate Professor of Jewish History; Director of the Edgar F. Magnin School of
Graduate Studies |
Los Angeles |
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Edward A. Goldman, Rabbi, Ph.D. |
Professor Emeritus Israel and Ida G. Bettan Chair in Midrash and Homiletics |
Cincinnati |
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Lisa Grant, Ph.D. |
Professor of Jewish Education |
New York |
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Alyssa Gray, J.D., L.L.M., Ph.D. |
Associate Professor of Codes and Responsa Literature |
New York |
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Samuel Greengus, Ph.D. |
Julian Morgenstern Professor Emeritus of Bible and Near Eastern Literature and Professor of Semitic Languages |
Cincinnati |
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Uri D. Herscher, Rabbi, D.H.L. |
Professor of American Jewish History |
Los Angeles |
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Leah Hochman, Ph.D. |
Director, Louchheim School of Judaic Studies; Assistant Professor of Jewish Thought |
Los Angeles |
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Lawrence A. Hoffman, Rabbi, Ph.D. |
Barbara and Stephen Friedman Professor of Liturgy, Worship, and Ritual |
New York |
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Joshua Holo, Ph.D. |
Dean, Los Angeles Campus; Associate Professor of Jewish History;
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Los Angeles |
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Isaac Jerusalmi, Rabbi, Ph.D. |
Professor Emeritus of Bible and Semitic Languages |
Cincinnati |
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Samuel K. Joseph, Rabbi, M.A.H.L. |
Professor of Jewish Education and Leadership Development |
Cincinnati |
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Jason Kalman, Ph.D. |
Gottschalk-Slade Chair in Jewish Intellectual History; Associate Professor of Classical Hebrew Literature and Interpretation |
Cincinnati |
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Adam Kamesar, D.Lett., D.Phil. |
Professor of Judaeo-Hellenistic Literature |
Cincinnati |
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Lynn Kaye, Ph.D. |
Assistant Professor of Rabbinic Literature |
Los Angeles |
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Mark L. Kligman, Ph.D., B.M. |
Professor of Jewish Musicology |
New York |
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Barry S. Kogan, Rabbi, Ph.D. |
Clarence and Robert Efroymson Professor of Jewish Thought; Professor of Jewish Philosophy |
Cincinnati |
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Sharon Koren, Ph.D. |
Associate Professor of Jewish History |
New York |
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Jonathan Krasner, Ph.D. |
Associate Professor of the American Jewish Experience |
New York |
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Leonard S. Kravitz, Rabbi, Ph.D. |
Professor Emeritus of Midrash and Homiletics |
New York |
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David Levine, Rabbi, Ph.D. |
Associate Professor of Talmud and Halacha |
Jerusalem |
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Michael Marmur, Rabbi, Ph.D. |
Vice President for Academic Affairs, Assistant Professor of Jewish Theology |
Jerusalem |
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Dalia Marx, Rabbi, Ph.D. |
Associate Professor for Liturgy and Midrash |
Jerusalem |
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Lowell G. McCoy, M.A. |
Professor Emeritus of Speech |
Cincinnati |
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Michael A. Meyer, Ph.D. |
Adolph S. Ochs Professor Emeritus of Jewish History |
Cincinnati |
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Stanley Nash, Rabbi, Ph.D. |
Professor Emeritus of Hebrew Literature |
New York |
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Aaron D. Panken, Rabbi, Ph.D. |
Assistant Professor, Rabbinic and Second Temple Literature |
New York |
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Stephen M. Passamaneck, Rabbi, Ph.D. |
Professor Emeritus of Rabbinic Literature |
Los Angeles |
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Bruce A. Phillips, Ph.D. |
Professor of Jewish Communal Service |
Los Angeles |
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Haim Rechnitzer, Rabbi, Ph.D. |
Associate Professor of Modern Jewish Thought |
Cincinnati |
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Richard S. Sarason, Rabbi, Ph.D. |
Professor of Rabbinical Literature and Thought |
Cincinnati |
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Benjie Ellen Schiller, Cantor, M.S.M. |
Professor of Cantorial Arts |
New York |
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Eliyahu Schleifer, Ph.D. |
Professor Emeritus of Sacred Music |
Jerusalem |
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S. David Sperling, Rabbi, Ph.D. |
Professor of Bible |
New York |
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Ezra Spicehandler, Rabbi, Ph.D. |
Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Hebrew Literature |
Cincinnati |
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Stephen Einstein, Rabbi |
Coordinator of the Leona Aronoff Rabbinic Mentoring Program |
Los Angeles |
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Mark Washofsky, Rabbi, Ph.D. |
Solomon B. Freehof Professor of Jewish Law and Practice |
Cincinnati |
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Dvora Weisberg, Ph.D. |
Director, School of Rabbinic Studies; Associate Professor of Rabbinical Literature |
Los Angeles |
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Yaffa Weisman, Ph.D., M.L.I.S. |
Head Librarian of the Frances-Henry Library; Adjunct Associate Professor of Contemporary Jewish studies |
Los Angeles |
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Andrea Weiss, Rabbi, Ph.D., M.A.H.L. |
Associate Professor of Bible |
New York |
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Steven Windmueller, Ph.D. |
Rabbi Alfred Gottschalk Emeritus Professor of Jewish Communal Service |
Los Angeles |
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Tali E. Zelkowicz, Rabbi, Ph.D. |
Assistant Professor of Education; Sara S. Lee Chair for an Emerging Scholar
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Los Angeles |
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Michael Zeldin, Ph.D. |
Professor of Jewish Education and Director of the Rhea Hirsch School of Education |
Los Angeles |
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Wendy Zierler, Ph.D. |
Associate Professor of Modern Jewish
Literature and Feminist Studies |
New York |
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Gary P. Zola, Rabbi, Ph.D. |
Professor of the American Jewish Experience |
Cincinnati |
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Renni Altman |
Director of School of Rabbinic Studies and Assistant Dean |
New York |
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Gerald Bubis, M.S.W |
Founder and Professor Emeritus of the School of Jewish Communal Service |
Los Angeles |
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Merri Lovinger Arian - M.A.T. |
Faculty in Liturgical Arts, Music Education, and Conducting
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New York |
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Rivka Dori, M.A., M.S. |
Director Emeritus of Hebrew Studies |
Los Angeles |
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Joel Duman, Ed. D. |
Bible and Biblical History |
Jerusalem |
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Kenneth E. Ehrlich, Rabbi, M.A.H.L. |
Lecturer |
Cincinnati |
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Shirley Idelson, Rabbi, M.S. |
Director of Graduate Studies |
New York |
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David Ilan, Ph.D. |
Director, Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology/Skirball
Center for Biblical and Archaeological Research |
Jerusalem |
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Israel Goldstein, Cantor, M.S.M. |
Chair of the Traditional Cantor Track; Professor of Traditional
Shalosh Regalim, Yom Kippur and Daily and Life Cycles; Cantorial Coach |
New York |
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Kenneth A. Kanter, Rabbi, M.A.H.L., D.D. |
Associate Dean and Director of the School of Rabbinic Studies |
Cincinnati |
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Jo Kay, M.A. |
Lecturer on Jewish Education |
New York |
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Naamah Kelman-Ezrachi, Rabbi, M.A., M.A.H.L. |
Dean, Jerusalem Campus; Lecturer on Jewish Education |
Jerusalem |
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Sara S. Lee, M.A.J.E., M.S.Ed. |
Adjunct Professor Emeritus of Jewish Education |
Los Angeles |
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Richard N. Levy, Rabbi, M.A.H.L., D.D. |
Rabbi of Campus Synagogue and Director of Spiritual Growth |
Los Angeles |
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David Mendelsson, Ph.D., M.A., B.A. |
Director of Israel Studies |
Jerusalem |
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Michal Muszkat-Barkan, Ph.D. |
Director of the Department of Education and Professional Development; Director of the M.A. Program in Pluralistic Jewish Education in conjunction with the Melton Center at the Hebrew University |
Jerusalem |
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Marc Rosenstein, Rabbi, Ph.D. |
Director of the Israel Rabbinical Program |
Jerusalem |
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Evie Rotstein, Ed.D. |
Director, School of Education |
New York |
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Bruce Ruben, Ph.D. |
Director of the School of Sacred Music |
New York |
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Rabbi Julie Schwartz |
Director of Pastoral Care and Clinical Pastoral Education |
Cincinnati |
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Yvon F. Shore, Cantor |
Director of Liturgical Arts |
Cincinnati |
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Nancy H. Wiener, Rabbi, D.Min. |
Adjunct Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling; Dr. Paul M. and Trudy Steinberg Professor in Human Relations and Counseling |
New York |
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Dr. Ruchama Weiss |
Director of the Blaustein Center for Pastoral Care (Mezorim and Sugiyot Chayim Programs) and the SpiritualCounseling Clinic; Adjunct Professor |
Jerusalem |
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Dana Anesi, Cantor, D. Min. |
Director of Student Placement, Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music |
New York |
| Lecturers, Mentors, Visiting Faculty, Voice Coaches, Accompanists |
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Jonathan Aaron, Rabbi, MAHL |
Visiting lecturer on Speech |
Los Angeles |
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Hagit Arieli-Chai, M.A.Ed. |
Hebrew Language Instructor |
Los Angeles |
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Ruth Artman-Breindler, B.A. |
Visiting lecturer on Hebrew Language: Bible |
Los Angeles |
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Esther Blachman, DHS |
Lecturer on Hebrew Language: Rabbinic Texts |
Los Angeles |
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Stephen E. Breuer, B.A. |
Visiting Lecturer on Synagogue Management |
Los Angeles |
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Susan Caro, Cantor |
Co-Cantor in the Hilborn Synagogue |
Los Angeles |
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Aryeh Cohen, Ph.D. |
Visiting Associate Professor of Rabbinical Literature |
Los Angeles |
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Lisa Edwards, Rabbi, M.A.H.L. |
Visiting Lecturer on Judaic Studies |
Los Angeles |
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Mark E. Friedman, Certif. in JCS |
Visiting Lecturer on Fundraising & Financial Resource Development |
Los Angeles |
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Kristine Garroway |
Visiting Assistant Professor in Hebrew Bible |
Los Angeles |
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Barbara Gereboff, Ph.D. |
Visiting Lecturer on Education |
Los Angeles |
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Joel Gereboff, Ph.D. |
Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies |
Los Angeles |
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Pinchas Giller, Rabbi |
Visiting Professor of Jewish Thought |
Los Angeles |
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Donald M. Goor, Rabbi, M.A.H.L. |
Visiting Lecturer on Practical Rabbinics |
Los Angeles |
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Sima Haruv, M.A. |
Coordinator of Hebrew Studies |
Jerusalem |
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Harvey P. Horowitz, M.L.S. |
Lecturer on Jewish Bibliography |
Los Angeles |
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Sandra Kazan |
Voice and Speech Coach |
New York |
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Evan Kent, Cantor, M.P.A. |
Adjunct Instructor on Judaica Practicum |
Los Angeles |
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Steven Leder, Rabbi, M.A.H.L. |
Visiting Lecturer on Homiletics |
California |
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Jonathan Shawn Landres |
Visiting Adjunct Instructor on Research Methods |
Los Angeles |
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Adriane Leveen, Ph.D. |
Senior Lecturer in Biblical Studies |
New York |
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Robert Levy, Ph.D. |
Visiting lecturer on Modern Jewish History |
Los Angeles |
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Phil Liff-Grieff, M.A.J.E. |
Visiting Adjunct Instructor on Informal Jewish Education |
Los Angeles |
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Jeffrey Marx, Rabbi, M.A.H.L., M.A.J.E. |
Visiting Supervisor of Education Fieldwork; Visiting Lecturer on Judaic Studies |
Los Angeles |
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David Mendelsson, Ph.D., M.A., B.A. |
Director of Israel Studies |
Jerusalem |
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Michele F. Prince, M.S.W., M.A.J.C.S. |
Director of The Kalsman Institute on Judaism and Health |
Los Angeles |
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Miriam Prum-Hess, M.A., M.S.W. |
Visiting Lecturer on Organizational Development |
Los Angeles |
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Samuel B. Radwine, Cantor, BSM |
Visiting lecturer on Sacred Music |
Los Angeles |
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Diane Tickton Schuster, Ph.D. |
Visiting Lecturer of Developmental Psychology |
Los Angeles |
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William Sharlin, Cantor, M.M. |
Adjunct Professor Emeritus of Sacred Music and Jewish Liturgy |
Los Angeles |
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Deborah Steinhart, Ph.D. |
Visiting lecturer on Hebrew Language: Modern Literary Texts |
California |
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Sally Weber, M.S.W. |
Visiting Lecturer on Pastoral Counseling |
Los Angeles |
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Ruth Weisberg, M.A. |
Visiting professor on Jewish Cultural Resources |
Los Angeles |
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Margaret Moers Wenig, Rabbi, M.A.H.L., D.D. |
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New York |
| Rabbinical Mentors - Mayerson Fieldwork Program, Cincinnati |
Rabbi Robert Barr
Rabbi Joshua L. Bennett
Rabbi Morley T. Feinstein
Rabbi Albert M. Lewis
Rabbi Stanley Miles
Rabbi Jonathan Miller
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Rabbi Ronald Segal
Rabbi Mark L. Shook
Rabbi John Spitzer
Rabbi Samuel M. Stahl
Rabbi Mark N. Staitman
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| Rabbinical Mentors - Year-in-Israel Program |
Rabbi Stanley Davids
Rabbi Shaul Feinberg
Rabbi David Forman
Rabbi Stuart Geller
Rabbi Carol Glass
Rabbi Ariel Stone Halperin
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Rabbi Na'amah Kelman
Rabbi Michael Klein-Katz
Rabbi Margie Meyer
Rabbi Jay Moses
Rabbi Joel Oseran
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| Rabbinical Mentors - Israeli Rabbinical Program |
Rabbi Meir Azari
Rabbi Miri Gold
Rabbi Naamah Kelman
Rabbi Tamar Kolberg
Rabbi Maya Leibovic
Rabbi Michael Marmur
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Rabbi Yehoram Mazor
Rabbi Edgar Nof
Rabbi Mira Raz
Rabbi Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi
Rabbi Levi Weiman-Kelman
Rabbi Ada Zavidov
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| Rabbinic Mentors for Weekend Pulpits |
Rabbi Marcus Burstein
Rabbi Jodi Cohen
Rabbi Sue Levi Elwell
Rabbi Irwin Goldenberg
Rabbi Sarah Messinger
Rabbi Gary Pokras |
Rabbi Judith Schindler
Rabbi Joel Soffin
Rabbi Scott Sperling
Rabbi Liza Stern
Rabbi Nancy H. Wiener |
| Rabbinic Mentors - Leona Aronoff Rabbinic Mentoring Program, Los Angeles |
Rabbi Jonathan Aaron
Rabbi Charles Briskin
Rabbi Heidi Cohen
Rabbi Lisa Edwards
Rabbi Stephen Einstein
Rabbi Lisa Hochberg-Miller
Rabbi Jim Kaufman
Rabbi Susan Laemmle
Rabbi Howard Laibson |
Rabbi Barry Lutz
Rabbi Jeffrey Marx
Rabbi Steven Moskowitz
Rabbi Janet Offel
Rabbi Ted Riter
Rabbi Zachary Shapiro
Rabbi Suzanne Singer
Rabbi Richard Steinberg
Rabbi Ronald Stern |
| Rabbinic Internship Mentors |
Rabbi Richard Address
Rabbi Jonathan Blake
Rabbi Dan Cohen
Rabbi Marla Feldman
Rabbi Matthew Gewirtz
Rabbi Nadia Gold
Rabbi Evan Goodman
Rabbi Daniel Gropper |
Rabbi Richard Jacobs
Rabbi Steven Kushner
Rabbi Robert Levine
Rabbi Serge A. Lippe
Rabbi David Posner
Rabbi Richard Prass
Rabbi Jonathan Stein
Rabbi Michael White
Rabbi Jonathan S. Woll |
Clinical Faculty of the Rabbinical
Residencies Program |
Rabbi Elka Abrahamson
Rabbi Aryeh Azriel
Rabbi Andrew Bachman
Rabbi James Bennett
Rabbi William Berk
Rabbi Sandy K. Bogin
Rabbi Eric Bram
Rabbi Daniel Bridge
Rabbi Deborah Bronstein
Rabbi David B. Cohen
Rabbi Norman Cohen
Rabbi Stephen E. Cohen
Rabbi Neil Comess-Daniels
Rabbi Zahara Davidowitz-Farkas
Rabbi Jerome K. Davidson
Rabbi Lucy H.F. Dinner
Rabbi Shelton Donnell
Rabbi Bill Dreskin
Rabbi Lisa Edwards
Rabbi Lisa Eiduson
Rabbi Steven Einstein
Rabbi Larry Englander
Rabbi Ronne Friedman
Rabbi David Gelfand
Rabbi Stuart Weinberg Gershon
Rabbi Gary A.Glicktein
Rabbi Roz Gold
Rabbi Lisa Goldstein
Rabbi Linda Henry Goodman
Rabbi Donald Goor
Rabbi Gary Greenebaum
Rabbi Eric Gurvis
Rabbi Floyd Herman
Rabbi Deborah Hirsch
Rabbi Abie Ingber
Rabbi Richard J. Jacobs
Rabbi Ben Kamin
Rabbi Steven E. Kaye
Rabbi Paul J. Kipnes
Rabbi Larry Kotok
Rabbi Phil Krantz
Rabbi Charles A. Kroloff
Rabbi Steven C. Kushner
Rabbi Susan Laemmle
Rabbi Barton G. Lee
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Rabbi Robert Levine
Rabbi Richard Levy
Rabbi Robert H. Loewy
Rabbi Jack A. Luxemburg
Rabbi Janet R. Marder
Rabbi Jeffrey Marx
Rabbi Steve Mason
Rabbi Bernard Mehlman
Rabbi David Meyer
Rabbi Carole L. Meyers
Rabbi Rachel S. Mikva
Rabbi Shira Milgrom
Rabbi Bennett Miller
Rabbi Arthur Nemitoff
Rabbi Melinda Faith Panken
Rabbi Jack Paskoff
Rabbi Stephen Pearce
Rabbi Rex D. Perlmeter
Rabbi Aaron Petuchowski
Rabbi James Prosnit
Rabbi Lawrence Raphael
Rabbi Harry Rosenfeld
Rabbi Laurence H. Rubinstein
Rabbi Amy M. Schwatzman
Rabbi Merle Singer
Rabbi Jeffrey J. Sirkman
Rabbi Joel Soffin
Rabbi Howard F. Sommer
Rabbi Don Splansky
Rabbi Jonathan Stein
Rabbi David E. Stern
Rabbi George Stern
Rabbi Jeffrey A. Summit
Rabbi Susan Talve
Rabbi Joshua Taub
Rabbi David B. Thomas
Rabbi Michael Weinberg
Rabbi Tom Weiner
Rabbi Kenneth Weiss
Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan
Rabbi Debbie Zecher
Rabbi Micheal Zedek
Rabbi Daniel G. Zemel
Rabbi Henry A. Zoob
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| Rabbinical Mentors/Internship Program |
Michael Berenbaum, Rabbi, M.A.H.L., D.D.
Michael Berk, Rabbi, M.A.H.L.
Mark Borovitz, Rabbi, M.A.H.L.
Lisa Edwards, Rabbi, Ph.D.
Denise Eger, Rabbi, M.A.H.L.
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Stacy Laveson Friedman, Rabbi, M.A.H.L.
Laura Geller, Rabbi, M.A.H.L., D.D.
Donald Goor, Rabbi, M.A.H.L.
Dana Hagat, Rabbi, M.A.H.L.
Sheldon Marder, Rabbi, M.A.H.L.
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