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Faculty Highlights
Professor Jo Kay,
Director, New York School of Edu-
cation,
is the Co-Chair of the Teen Engagement Task Force
of the URJ’s Commission on Lifelong Learning, which has
produced several documents for congregational use, includ-
ing a “Planning Guide for Teen Engagement,” available on
the URJ website.
Sandra Kazan,
Voice and Speech Coach,
published
“
Voice and the Rabbi: The Art of Delivering a Sermon” in
the
CCAR Journal
.
Rabbi Naamah Kelman, J ’92,
Dean, HUC-
JIR/Jerusalem,
published an article on “The Daughters
of Zelophehad” in an Israeli anthology on Social Justice.
Lori Klein, MSW, MAJCS, SJNM ’91
Associate
Director, School of Jewish Nonprofit Management
,
gave
a presentation and facilitated a workshop entitled “L’Dor
V’Dor: How Lay Leadership Can Be Generationally Savvy”
at The Jewish Federation Valley Alliance Women’s Depart-
ment Leadership Summit.
Dr. Mark Kligman,
Professor of Jewish Musicology,
presented "Singing Arab Melodies in the Synagogue: The
Music and Culture of Syrian Jews in Brooklyn" as part of the
Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy Colloquium Series, presented by the
Mickey Katz Chair in Jewish Music at UCLA, UCLA Herb
Alpert School of Music,and UCLA Center for Jewish Studies.
Dr. Sharon Koren,
Associate Professor of Medieval
Jewish Culture,
co-led the session Introduction to Beit
Midrash by the Sea at the annual conference of the Women's
Rabbinic Network, "Fire and Water: Passion and Renewal.”
Dr. Jonathan Krasner,
Associate Professor
of the American Jewish Experience,
served as Conference
Chair of the Network for Research in Jewish Education’s
25
th annual conference at York University in Toronto.
Christopher Eli Kraus, JD, MTS,
Visiting Instruc-
tor in Jewish Education,
was selected as this year’s honoree
from HUC-JIR/Cincinnati for the Celebration of Teaching
Award, sponsored by the Greater Cincinnati Consortium
of Colleges and Universities.
Dr. Adriane Leveen,
Senior Lecturer in Hebrew Bible
and Lead Judaica Specialist in the Jim Joseph Foundation
Education Initiative,
wrote “Returning the Body to its Place:
Ezekiel’s Tour of the Temple,” forthcoming,
Harvard Theologi-
cal Review
.
Rabbi Richard Levy, C ’64,
Rabbi of Campus
Synagogue, Jack H. Skirball Campus/Los Angeles,
was one
of the presenting scholars at Chadeish Yameinu, the CCAR’s
three-day retreat on preparation for the High Holy Days.
Dr. Michael Marmur, J ’92,
Vice President for
Academic Affairs and Assistant Professor of Jewish Theol-
ogy,
published "Toward a New Jewish Theological Lexicon"
in Jewish Theology in Our Time, edited by Elliot J. Cosgrove,
Jewish Lights, 2010.
Dr. Dalia Marx, C/J ’03,
Assistant Professor of
Liturgy and Midrash,
organized the international academic
conference, “The Woman and the Temple: A Feminist Read-
ing of the Talmud,” within the framework of the Feminist
Commentary of the Babylonian Talmud Project, in
memory of Professor Chana Safrai,
z’’l.
Dr. David Mendelsson,
Director of Israel Studies,
published “Issues in Anglo-Jewish Education: Day Schools,
State Funding, and Religious Education in State Schools,”
in the
International Handbook of Jewish Education
,
edited
by Lisa Grant, Helena Miller, and Alex Pomson (New York:
Springer, 2011).
Dr. Michael Meyer, Ph.D. ’64,
Ochs Professor
of Jewish History,
delivered the Dorit and Gerald Paul Lec-
tures, sponsored by Indiana University, on “‘True Honor is
What We Gain for Ourselves:’ Maintaining Jewish Morale in
Nazi Germany” and “The German-Jewish Legacy in America.”
Rabbi Stanley Nash, Ph.D.,
Professor Emeritus
of Hebrew Literature,
completed the translation, notes, and
commentary for
“
We Have Not Reached God,”
an essay by
Chava Pinchas-Cohen on two poems by Admiel Kosman.
Dr. Aaron Panken, N ’91,
Assistant Professor of
Rabbinic and Second Temple Literature,
was appointed
Co-Chair of the Sabbath Group at the Society of Biblical
Literature.
Dr. Bruce A. Phillips,
Professor of Sociology and
Jewish Communal Studies,
presented “Using Local Jewish
Community Studies for Academic Research,” at the Bran-
deis University conference, “Socio-Demography of American
Jewry.”
Michele Prince, SJNM ’02,
Director, Kalsman Insti-
tute on Judaism and Health,
presented “Building the Field
of Judaism and Health” at the Kalsman Research Round-
table, which aims to build a scholarly foundation for work
in Judaism, health, healing, and medicine.
Dr. Haim O. Rechnitzer, J ’03,
Associate Profes-
sor of Jewish Thought,
published an article dedicated to
the mystical underpinnings of the poetry of Avraham Chalfi
in the
Journal of Modern Jewish Studies
.
Dr. Evie Levy Rotstein,
Project Director, The
Leadership Institute: Shaping Congregational Leaders
