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Dr. Susan L. Einbinder, N ’83,
Professor of Hebrew
Literature,
presented "Seeing the Blind: Trauma and Poetry in
Medieval Ashkenaz," a workshop on Medieval Hebrew poetry,
at Stanford University's Taube Center for Jewish Studies.
Dr. David Ellenson, N ’77,
President and Grancell
Professor of Jewish Religious Thought,
published “Colleagues
and Friends: Letters between Rabbi Samuel Belkin and Rabbi
William G. Braude” in
Continuity and Change: A Festschrift in
Honor of Irving (Yitz) Greenberg’s 75th Birthday,
eds. Steven
T. Katz and Steven Bayme.
Dr. Tamara Cohn Eskenazi,
Professor of Bible,
was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities
grant for her project, “Out from the Shadows: Biblical
Women in the Persian Period (6th-4th Centuries BCE).”
Dr. Reuven Firestone, N ’82,
Professor of
Medieval Judaism and Islam,
was invited to be the keynote
speaker and present “A Global View of Religious Violence in
Scriptural Monotheisms” at the international conference, “The
Root Causes of Terrorism: A Religious Studies Perspective,” at
the Leiden Institute for Religious Studies at Leiden University
in the Netherlands.
Dr. Nili S. Fox,
Director, School of Graduate Studies,
and Professor of Bible,
published “A Bone Carved Calendar”
in Yifat Thareani,
Tel ’Aroer: The Iron Age II Caravan Town and
the Hellenistic-Early Roman Settlement
(
Nelson Glueck
School of Biblical Archaeology, HUC-JIR, 2011).
Dr. Joshua D. Garroway, C ’03,
Rabbi Michael
Matuson Professorship for an Emerging Scholar and Assistant
Professor of Early Christianity and Second Commonwealth,
published “The Law-Observant Lord: John Chrysostom’s
Engagement with the Jewishness of Christ,”
Journal of Early
Christian Studies
18:4 (
Winter 2010).
Dr. David J. Gilner, Ph.D. ’89,
Director of
Libraries,
served on a National Endowment for the
Humanities panel judging fellowship applications.
Dr. Edward Goldman, C ’69, Ph.D. ’74,
Bettan Professor Emeritus in Midrash and Homiletics,
chaired a panel discussion on a new book edited by
Zev Garber on
The Jewish Jesus
at the Society of Biblical
Literature conference.
Dr. Lisa D. Grant,
Associate Professor of Jewish
Education,
presented the keynote speech on “Reaching
and Teaching Jewish Adults” at the annual conference for
the Alliance for Continuing Rabbinic Education.
Dr. Alyssa Gray,
Associate Professor of Codes and Re-
sponsa Literature,
published “Redemptive Almsgiving and the
Rabbis of Late Antiquity” in
Jewish Studies Quarterly
18:2
(2011).
Dr. Leah Hochman,
Director, Louchheim School for
Judaic Studies, and Assistant Professor of Jewish Thought,
presented her paper on
“
In/Hospitality: Abraham, Lot and the
Post-Apocalyptic World” at the international conference “The
Hospitable Text: New Approaches to Religion and Literature,”
held in London at the Notre Dame Conference Center.
Dr. Lawrence A. Hoffman, N ’69, Ph.D. ’73,
Friedman Professor of Liturgy, Worship, and Ritual,
received
an honorary doctorate from Reconstructionist Rabbinical
College in recognition of his work in worship, ritual, and syna-
gogue transformation.
Dr. Joshua Holo,
Dean, HUC-JIR/Jack H. Skirball Cam-
pus/Los Angeles, and Associate Professor of Jewish History,
published “Byzantine-Jewish Ethnography: A Consideration of
the Sefer Yosippon in Light of Gerson Cohen’s ‘Esau as Sym-
bol in Early Medieval Thought’” in
Jews in Byzantium:
Dialectics of Minority and Majority Cultures
,
ed. R. Bonfil,
et al. (Brill, 2012).
Rabbi Shirley Idelson, N ’91,
Dean, HUC-JIR/New
York and Director, Graduate Studies,
earned her Master of
Philosophy degree in History from the City University of New
York Graduate Center and is working on her Ph.D. dissertation
on the history of the Jewish Institute of Religion, under advise-
ment of Dr. Robert Seltzer, C ’61.
Dr. Samuel K. Joseph, C ’76,
Eleanor
Sinsheimer Distinguished Service Professor of Jewish
Education and Leadership Development
,
is the National
Co-Chair of the New Goals for Life Long Learning of the
Reform Movement.
Dr. Jason Kalman,
Gottschalk-Slade Chair in Jewish
Intellectual History,
published “Heckling the Divine: Woody
Allen, The Book of Job, and Jewish Theology After the Holo-
caust” in Leonard Greenspoon, ed.,
Jews and Humor
(
West
Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2011).
Dr. Adam Kamesar,
Professor of Judaeo-Hellenistic
Literature,
was interviewed about Philo of Alexandria for “God
Talk” on KGO radio in San Francisco, hosted by Brent Walters.
Dr. Kenneth Kanter, C ’80,
Director, Rabbinical
School, HUC-JIR/Cincinnati,
conducted High Holy Day
services at Kehillat Beijing, China.
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