Matters of Record
Corporate Name
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
Board of Governors
David Edelson, Chair
Cary Davidson, Vice Chair
Matthew Louchheim, Vice Chair
Kenneth Gilman, Treasurer
Marcie Zelikow, Secretary
Andrew Rehfeld, Ph.D., President
Rabbi Peter Berg
Sara Charney
Miriam Daniel
Rabbi Josh Davidson
Marci Dollinger
Shelley Niceley Groff
Dean Hansell
Marcy Harris
Sue Neuman Hochberg
Yaron Horovitz
Rabbi Rick Jacobs
Jennifer Kaufman
Rabbi Daniel Kirzane
Rabbi Alan Litwak
Rabbi David Lyon
Rachel Margolis
Daryl Messinger
Rabbi Rachel Mikya
Steve Pruzan
Julie Raskind
Cantor Sarah Sager
Ed Septimus
Mitchell Shames
Rabbi David Stern
Karl Thurmond
Bonnie Tisch
Rabbi Danny Weiner
Cathy Weiss
Rabbi Wendy Zierler
Mark Zilbermann
Hebrew Union College's Bylaws can be found on the Board of Governors page on the HUC website.
Administration
Andrew Rehfeld, PhD, President; Professor, Political Thought
Judah Cohen, PhD, Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Provost; Professor, Jewish Studies
Lori Cromwell, PhD, Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
Melissa Greenberg, Vice President, Institutional Advancement; Chief Philanthropy Officer
Jessica Silver, Chief of Staff; Vice President of Strategic Initiatives
Faculty
Rabbi David H. Aaron, PhD, Professor, Hebrew Bible and History, Interpretation
Hagit Arieli-Chai, Coordinator, Hebrew Language
Sarah Bunin Benor, PhD, Director, Jewish Language Project; Professor, Contemporary Jewish Studies and Linguistics
AJ Berkovitz, PhD, Assistant Professor, Liturgy and Ancient Judaism
Gordon Dale, PhD, Dr. Jack Gottlieb Scholar, Jewish Music Studies; Assistant Professor, Jewish Musicology
Rabbi Reuven Firestone, PhD, Regenstein Professor, Medieval Judaism and Islam
Daniel Fisher-Livne, PhD, Assistant Professor, Bible
Rabbi Joshua D. Garroway, PhD, Sol and Arlene Bronstein Professor, Judaeo-Christian Studies/Professor, Early Christianity and the Second Commonwealth
Kristine Garroway, PhD, Professor, Bible
Daniel Golde, PhD, Visiting Instructor, Los Angeles
Alyssa Gray, JD., PhD, Emily S. and Rabbi Bernard H. Mehlman Chair, Rabbinics; Professor, Codes and Responsa Literature
Leah Hochman, PhD, Director, Louchheim School of Judaic Studies; Associate Professor, Jewish Thought
Jason Kalman, PhD, Gottschalk-Slade Chair in Jewish Intellectual History; Co-Director, HUC Press
Adam Kamesar, DPhil, Professor, Judaeo-Hellenistic Literature
Sharon Koren, PhD, Associate Professor, Medieval Jewish Culture
Jeremy Leigh, MA, Coordinator, Richard J. Scheuer Israel Seminar
Rabbi David Levine, PhD, Associate Professor, Talmud and Halacha
Rabbi Michael Marmur, PhD, Associate Professor, Jewish Theology
Rabbi Dalia Marx, PhD, Rabbi Aaron D. Panken Professor, Liturgy and Midrash
Michal Muskat-Barkan, PhD, Head, Education and Professional Development Department; Professor, Jewish Education Parallel Track
Zohara Pardes-Feinstein, Lecturer
Bruce Phillips, PhD, Professor, Jewish Communal Service
Rabbi Haim Rechnitzer, PhD, Professor, Jewish Thought
Michael Rom, PhD, Assistant Visiting Professor in Modern Jewish History and Culture
Joyce Rosenzweig, MS, Professor, Practice, Jewish Music and Performance
Rabbi Richard Sarason, PhD, Director, Pines School of Graduate Studies; The Deutsch Family Professor, Rabbinics and Liturgy
Karen Skinazi, PhD, Director, Louchheim School; Professor, Modern Jewish Literature and Culture
Rabbi Joseph Skloot, PhD, Rabbi Aaron D. Panken Assistant Professor, Modern Jewish Intellectual History
Rabbi Dvora Weisberg, PhD, Director, Rabbinical School; Rabbi Aaron D. Panken Professor, Rabbinics
Rabbi Nancy Wiener, DMin, Founding Director, Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Center for Pastoral Counseling; Dr. Paul and Trudy Steinberg Distinguished Professor, Human Relations; Fieldwork Coordinator
Sivan Zakai, PhD, Sara S. Lee Associate Professor, Jewish Education
Rabbi Wendy Zierler, PhD, Sigmund Falk Professor, Modern Jewish Literature and Feminist Studies
Other Administration
Roseanne Ackerley, National Director, Financial Aid
Cantor Jill Abramson, Interim Head of Seminary Programs, Director, Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music
Lauren Applebaum, EdD, Interim Director, School of Education, Director, DeLeT Programs
Rabbi Talia Avnon-Benveniste, Director, Israel Rabbinical Program
Rabbi Cantor Shani Ben-Or, Cantorial Program Coordinator, Year-in-Israel Program
Mari Chernow, Dean, Los Angeles
Andrew Durbin, Director, Information Technology
Alice Finklestein, Interim Head Librarian
Rabbi Reuven Greenvald, Director, Year-In-Israel Program
Rabbi Rachel Gross-Prinz, Dean of Students, Seminary; Jewish Ideas Fellowship Director
Dana Herman, PhD, Associate Director, American Jewish Archives
Rabbi Shirley Idelson, PhD, Director, Zelikow School of Jewish Nonprofit Management
Yvette Joffe, Operations Manager, Jack H. Skirball Campus
Nicole Jones, Global Director, Human Resources
Patricia Keim, Assistant Vice President, Marketing and Communications
Einav Lahav, Chief Financial Officer, HUC/Jerusalem
Rabbi Rachel Maimin, Acting Director, Office of Recruitment and Admissions
Karen Reiss Medwed, PhD, Interim Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Initiatives, Coordinator, Virtual Pathway
Katie Rendon, Registrar
Ester Rogers, Senior Manager of Assessment, Institutional Research, and Compliance
Jean Rosensaft, Senior Advisor to the President; Director, Dr. Bernard Heller Museum
Rabbi Daniel S. Ross, Director, Alumni Engagement
Katherine Schwartz, EdD, RJE, Director, Executive M.A. Program in Jewish Education
Nachman Shai, PhD, Rabbi David Ellenson Dean, Jerusalem Campus
Michelle Slocum, Assistant Vice President, Finance; Controller
Amy Swiatek, Senior Director, Development Communications
Dganit Timor Jenshil, Chief Operating Officer and Director of Outreach, Jerusalem Campus
Tracey Ward, Associate Director, Enrollment and Student Support
Bryan Weng, Director of Financial Planning and Analysis
Rabbi Laura Novak Winer, EdD, Interim Director, Rabbinical School