JUDAISM

at AMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY


    


Our Faculty

 

(Full‑Time Faculty and Administrators are Bold)

 

Judy Aranoff

 

Director, University Choral Ensemble, Lecturer in Music; B.A., M.A., Universityof California, Los Angeles.

Ayala Ariel

 

Lecturer in Hebrew; B.A., Universityof Judaism; M.A., Universityof California, Los Angeles.

 

Bradley Shavit Artson

 

Vice President for Public Affairs and Community Outreach, Dean, Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies; B.A., Harvard University; Rabbi, M.A., The Jewish Theological Seminary of America.

 

Ora Band

 

Lecturer in Hebrew; B.A., BrandeisUniversity; M.A., Universityof California, Los Angeles.

 

Ben ZionBergman

 

David and Celia Familian Adjunct Professor of Rabbinic Literature; Bachelor of Civil Engineering, The City College of New York; M.H.L., Rabbi, D.D. (Hon.), The Jewish Theological Seminary of America; J.D., University of San Fernando Valley.

 

Gordan bernat-kunin

 

Adjunct Lecturer in Rabbinics; B.A., Harvard College; M.P.H., University of California, Los Angeles; B.Lit., University of Judaism; Rabbi, M.A., The Jewish Theological Seminary of America.

 

Mark bookman

 

Vice President for Business and Administration, Assosiate Professor in Business and Law on the Zarem Chair; B.A., J.D., Universityof California, Los Angeles.

 

Rick Burke

 

University Librarian; B.A., Universityof California, Santa Cruz; M.L.S., Universityof California, Los Angeles. Lecturer in Computer Science.

 

Richard Camras

 

Lecturer in Practical Rabbinics; B.S., University of Arizona; BLit, University of Judaism; Rabbi, MHL, The Jewish theological Seminary; 8 years experience in pulpit work.

 

Aryeh Cohen

 

Chair, Department of Jewish Studies, Assistant Professor of Rabbinic Literature; B.A., HebrewUniversityof Jerusalem; M.A., Ph.D., BrandeisUniversity.

 

Jerry Danzig

 

Adjunct Lecturer in Practical Rabbinics; B.A., Universityof Kansas; Rabbi, Bet Midrash Larabanim Tifereth Israel.

 

Elliot Dorff

 

Rector, Sol & Anne Dorff Professor of Philosophy; B.A., ColumbiaCollege; M.H.L., Rabbi, The Jewish Theological Seminary of America; Ph.D., ColumbiaUniversity.

 

Edward Feinstein

Lecturer in Practical Rabbinics; B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz; B.Lit., University of Judaism; M.A., Teachers' College, Columbia University; Rabbi, M.A., The Jewish Theological Seminary of America.
 

Shawn Fields-Meyer

 

Advisor to Students, Lecturer in Liturgy; B.A., Universityof Pennsylvania; M.H.L., Universityof Judaism, Rabbi, M.A., The Jewish Theological Seminary of America.

 

 

 

Pinchas Giller

 

Assistant Professor of Midrash; B.A., Columbia University; Rabbi, M.S., Yeshiva University; Ph.D., Graduate Theological Union.

 

Miriyam Glazer

 

Chair, Department of English and Literature, Professor of Literature; B.A., AntiochCollege; M.A., Ph.D., BrandeisUniversity.

 

Elaine Goodfriend

 

Lecturer in Bible; B.A., CornellUniversity; M.A., Ph.D., Universityof California, Berkeley.

 

Abraham Havivi

 

Lecturer in Pastoral Counseling; B.A., Brown University; Rabbi, M.A., Jewish Theological Seminary; M.D., University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; Resident and Fellow, UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute.

 

 

Sue Kapitanoff

 

Vice President for Student and Undergraduate Affairs, Lecturer in Psychology; B.A., University of California, Los Angeles; M.A., California State University, Northridge; Ph.D., University of California, Irvine.

 

 

 

David Lieber

President Emeritus, Flora and ArnoldSkovron Distinguished Service Professor of Biblical Literature and Thought; B.A., The CityCollegeof New York; M.A., ColumbiaUniversity; B.H.L., M.H.L., Rabbi, D.H.L., The Jewish Theological Seminary of America; Litt.H.D. (hon.) HebrewUnionCollege.

 

Baruch Link

 

Adjunct Associate Professor of Hebrew; B.A., Tel-AvivUniversity; M.A., Ph.D., Universityof California, Los Angeles.

 

Steven Lowenstein

 

Chair, Department of Jewish and Western Civilization, Isadore Levine Professor of History; B.A., The City College of New York; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University.

 

Perry Netter

 

Adjunct Professor of Rabbinics; B.A., BLIT, Univeristy of Judaism; Rabbi, MHL, Jewish Theological Seminary; 18 years experience in pulpit work.

 

Lois Hecht Oppenheim

 

Professor of Political Science; B.A., Universityof Rochester; M.A., Ph.D., WashingtonUniversity.

 

 

Joel E. Rembaum

 

Associate Professor of Jewish History; B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Universityof California, Los Angeles; Rabbi, M.H.L., D.D., Honoris Causa, Jewish Theological Seminary of America.

 

 

Lois Rothblum

 

Director of the CLEJAN Education Resources Center, Coordinator of Hebrew Language, Lecturer in Education; B.A., New York University; M.A.T., University of Judaism; M.A., Columbia University.

 

Moshe Rothblum

 

Adjunct Lecturer in Practical Rabbinics; B.A., Universityof California, Los Angeles; Rabbi, M.H.L., The Jewish Theological Seminary of America.

 

Elijah Schochet

 

Adjunct Professor of Rabbinics; B.A., Universityof California, Los Angeles; Rabbi, M.H.L., The Jewish Theological Seminary of America; D.H.L., Universityof Judaism.

 

Amy Hill Shevitz 

Adjunct Lecturer; B.A., SmithCollege; M.S., SimmonsCollege, GraduateSchoolof Library and Information Science.

 

 

Ronald J. Shulman

 

Lecturer in Bible; B.A., BrandeisUniversity; Rabbi, M.A., The Jewish Theological Seminary of America.

 

Elie Spitz

 

Lecturer in ZieglerSchoolof Rabbinic Studies.

Robert Wexler

 

President, Irma and Louis Colen Distinguished Lecturer in Bible and the Near East; B.A., M.A., University of California, Los Angeles; B.Lit., University of Judaism; M.A., Rabbi, The Jewish Theological Seminary of America; M.B.A., Baruch College; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.

 

Ronald Wolfson

 

Vice President, Director, Whizin Institute, Fingerhut Assistant Professor of Education; B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Washington University; M.A., University of Judaism.

 

Ziony Zevit

 

Professor of Bible and Northwest Semitic Languages; B.A., Universityof California; M.A., Ph.D., Universityof California, Berkeley.