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Become a Leader in Jewish Education
Executive M.A. Program in Jewish Education
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Dr. Michael Zeldin (Senior National Director of the Schools of Education) is senior Editor of the Journal of Jewish Education, the premier research and scholarly journal in the field of Jewish education, is co-editor and lead author of Touching the Future: Mentoring and the Jewish Professional, and has been called "the intellectual father of the Reform Day school movement."
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Jason Kalman is Associate Professor of Classical Hebrew Literature and Interpretation at the Cincinnati School of HUC-JIR. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Jewish Studies at McGill University and is a research fellow affiliated with the University of the Free State, South Africa. He specializes in the history of Jewish biblical exegesis and his specific research interests include rabbinic anti-Christian polemic, medieval intellectual history as reflected in biblical commentary, and biblical interpretation after the Holocaust.
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Rabbi Samuel K. Joseph (Professor of Jewish Education and Leadership Development at HUC-JIR/Cincinnati) has a special interest in how Jewish institutions and organizations, from schools and synagogues to national groups, attain excellence and consults with rabbis, educators, administrators, and communal and lay leaders, supporting the fulfillment of their mission. He works with international Jewish communities in Germany, China, Australia, and Hong Kong, where he founded the Progressive congregation.
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Dr. Isa Aron, the author of two of the most significant books on congregational transformation, Becoming a Congregation of Learners and The Self-Renewing Congregation, and coauthor of Sacred Strategies: Transforming Synagogues from Functional to Visionary, is the pioneering thinker and activist in the field of re-imagining congregational education and is one of the leading experts in the theory and practice of educational change.
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Dr. Lisa Grant, a recognized expert on adult learning who has published and lectured widely on Israel education, has an M.B.A. in Public Management, which informs her work in Jewish Educational
Leadership, and is the former Chair of the Network for Research in Jewish Education.
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Dr. Jonathan Krasner, an expert in the American Jewish experience, holds a joint appointment in both the rabbinical and education programs, an M.A. in Education from Harvard, brings expertise in day school education out of his work as history department chair at the New Jewish High school in Boston, and has written and lectured on congregational education and the use of textbooks in congregational schools.
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Dr. Tali Zelkowicz is one of the leading young thinkers and writers engaged in reconceptualizing the relationship between Jewish education and Jewish identity, and brings her knowledge of text and tradition, developed in part as a result of her rabbinical studies, to her teaching in Jewish education.
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Dr. Adriane Leveen is Senior Lecturer in Hebrew Bible and Lead Judaica Specialist for the Jim Joseph Initiative at HUC-JIR. Leveen's book Memory and Tradition in the Book of Numbers has been published by Cambridge University Press (2008). She has also published in The Journal for the Study of the Old Testament and Prooftexts and is a contributor to: Women Remaking American Judaism (2007), Healing in the Jewish Imagination (2007), and The Torah: A Women's Commentary (2007).
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Dr. Evie Rotstein (Director of the New York School of Education) spent many years as a congregational school educator and camp educator, teaches on leadership issues, and has conducted significant research on interfaith families and the Jewish identity of teens.
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Have a question? Contact Lesley Litman at (857) 756-7759 or llitman@huc.edu.
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