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FACULTY HIGHLIGHTS
Dr. David H. Aaron, C ’83,
Professor of Hebrew
Bible & History of Interpretation,
was a Fellow at the
Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies at the Univer-
sity of Michigan, which focused on “Jewish Languages,” and
advanced work on a book dealing with the history of the
concept of Hebrew as a “holy language.”
Rabbi Richard Address,
Rabbinic Internship
Mentor,
published “Seekers of Meaning: Baby Boomers,
Judaism, and the Pursuit of Healthy Aging” with URJ Press.
Dr. Rachel R. Adler,
Professor of Modern Jewish
Thought and Feminist Studies,
finished her article, “Rab-
binic Dirges and the Voices of Women in Lament,” for
a festschrift for Professor Tamara Cohn Eskenazi.
Dr. Isa E. Aron,
Professor of Jewish Education
,
pub-
lished “The Congregational School” in the
International
Handbook of Jewish Education
,
edited by Lisa Grant, He-
lena Miller, and Alex Pomson (New York: Springer, 2011).
Dr. Carole B. Balin, N ’91,
Professor of Jewish
History,
co-curated “
Bat Mitzvah
Comes of Age,” a national
traveling exhibition that tells the story of pioneering
bat
mitzvah
girls who took to the
bima
and changed Jewish life,
a project of Moving Traditions and the National Museum of
American Jewish History, which is launching at the JCC of
Manhattan.
Rachel Ben-Dov,
Senior Researcher, Nelson Glueck
School of Biblical Archaeology,
published “Craft Workshops
at Tel Dan,” in
Eretz-Israel
(
Amnon Ben-Tor Volume) 30
(
Israel Exploration Society, Jerusalem, 2011.)
Dr. Sarah Bunin Benor,
Associate Professor of
Contemporary Jewish Studies,
edited a special issue
of the academic journal
Language and Communication
on “Jewish Languages in the Age of the Internet,” including
her article “Mensch, Bentsh
,
and Balagan
:
Variation in the
American Jewish Linguistic Repertoire.”
Dr. Eugene Borowitz, C ’48, Ph.D. ’52,
Distin-
guished University Professor; Sigmund Falk Distinguished
Professor of Education and Jewish Religious Thought,
came
to the College-Institute in August 1962 and thus, at the
conclusion of this year’s spring semester, will have com-
pleted 50 years of full time teaching – 100 semesters –
at HUC-JIR.
Gerald Bubis, M.S.W.,
Founding Director, School for
Jewish Nonprofit Management and Rabbi Alfred Gottschalk
Professor Emeritus of Jewish Communal Studies
,
had an
annual lectureship in his honor established at his syna-
gogue Valley Beth Shalom, together with Americans For
Peace Now, in honor of his role in working for Middle East
peace since 1982.
Dr. Jonathan Cohen,
Dean, HUC-JIR/Cincinnati,
and Associate Professor of Talmud and Halakhic Literature,
presented a paper titled “Conversion, Liberal Judaism, and
Jewish Identity” during the panel “Church and State in a
Jewish and Democratic Nation” at a symposium at Hebrew
University in Jerusalem in honor of the 100th anniversary
to Haim H. Cohn’s birth.
Dr. Martin A. Cohen, C ’57, Ph.D. ’60,
Professor
of Jewish History,
was honored by the American Friends of
the Jewish Museum of Greece, who bestowed upon him
their Spiritual Leader Award.
Dr. Steven M. Cohen,
Research Professor of Jewish
Social Policy,
received the degree of Doctor of Hebrew Let-
ters,
honoris causa,
from the Spertus Institute of Jewish
Studies on March 27, 2011.
Dr. Michael Chernick,
Deutsch Professor of Jewish
Jurisprudence and Social Work,
presented
“
On the Teaching
of Talmud: Neusner, Brisk, and the Stam,” during the Work-
ing Paper Series with the Mandel Center for Jewish
Education at Brandeis University.
Dr. Michael J. Cook, N ’70, Ph.D. ’75,
Bronstein
Professor of Judeo-Christian Studies
,
delivered a six-lecture
series at Limmud-UK (Warwick University, Coventry, England,
December 2010) on Christian art, Christian drama, me-
dieval misapplications of the Bible, Evangelical theology,
the Book of Judges and ancient priesthoods, and “British
Jews at the Crossroads.”
Dr. William Cutter, C ’65,
Founding Director, Kals-
man Institute on Judaism & Health and Steinberg Professor
Emeritus of Human Relations
,
published an article in
The
Sacred Table: Creating a Jewish Food Ethic
(
CCAR Press).
Rabbi Jerome K. Davidson, C ’58,
National Co-
ordinator of Leadership Initiatives and Adjunct Professor of
Professional Development,
served as Scholar-in-Residence
at Temple Beth El in Charlotte, NC, in commemoration of
the tenth anniversary of the
yahrzeit
of Rabbi Alexander
M. Schindler.
