Academic Catalog 2026-2027

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