Academic Catalog 2024-2025

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 Erica Asch

Susan Bass

Rabbi Peter Berg

Debbie Tuttle Berkowitz

Rabbi Leah Citrin

Miriam Daniel

Rabbi Josh Davidson

Shelley N. Groff

Marcy Harris

Sue Neuman Hochberg

Yaron Horovitz

Rabbi Rick Jacobs

Jennifer Kaufman

Rabbi Daniel Kirzane

Rabbi Alan Litwak

Rachel Margolis

Daryl Messinger

Rabbi Amy R. Perlin

Steve Pruzan

Julie Raskind

Cantor Sarah Sager

Josh Schechter

Ed Septimus

Mitchell Shames

Rabbi Zachary Shapiro

Rabbi David Stern

Bonnie Tisch

Rabbi Danny Weiner

Rabbi Wendy Zierler

Mark Zilbermann

Administration

Andrew Rehfeld, PhD, President; Professor, Political Thought

Rabbi Andrea L. Weiss, PhD, Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Provost; Associate Professor, Bible

Lori Cromwell, PhD, Vice President, Chief Financial Officer

Melissa Greenberg, Vice President, Institutional Advancement; Chief Philanthropy Officer

Joshua Holo, PhD, Vice President, Academic Resources; Associate Professor, Jewish History

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

Martin Cohen, PhD, Adolph S. Ochs Professor, History

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, Dean, Los Angeles Campus; Sol and Arlene Bronstein Professor, Judaeo-Christian Studies/Professor, Early Christianity and the Second Commonwealth

Kristine Garroway, PhD, Professor, Bible

Rabbi Lisa Grant, PhD, Eleanor Sinsheimer Distinguished Service Professor, Jewish Education

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

Rabbi Joseph Skloot, PhD, Rabbi Aaron D. Panken Assistant Professor, Modern Jewish Intellectual History

Miriam Heller Stern, PhD, Director, School of Education; Associate Professor

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

Rabbi Gary Zola, PhD, Edward M. Ackerman Family Distinguished Professor, The American Jewish Experience and Reform Judaism

Other Administration

Roseanne Ackerley, National Director, Financial Aid

Rabbi David Adelson, DMin, Dean, New York Campus, Director of New York Rabbinical Program

Rabbi Adam Allenberg, Senior Director, Office, Recruitment and Admissions

Lauren Applebaum, EdD, Director, DeLeT Programs

Rabbi Talia Avnon-Benveniste, Director, Israel Rabbinical Program

Cantor David Berger, Cincinnati Tefillah Coordinator

Lori Cromwell, PhD, Chief Financial Officer / Vice President, Finance

D. Scott Dittman, Interim Registrar

Andrew Durbin, Director, Information Technology

Cantor Sarah Grabiner, Cantorial Program Coordinator, Year-in-Israel Program

Rabbi Reuven Greenvald, Director, Year-In-Israel Program

Rabbi Rachel Gross-Prinz, Dean of Students, New York Campus; Jewish Ideas Fellowship Director

Jennifer R. Harper, DD, Program Director, Interfaith Doctor of Ministry Program for Pastoral Care; Instructor

Dana Herman, PhD, Director, Research and Collections, American Jewish Archives

John Hofmann, PhD, Institutional Assessment and Institutional Research Specialist

Rabbi Shirley Idelson, PhD, Director, Zelikow School of Nonprofit Management

Nicole Jones, Global Director, Human Resources

Patricia Keim, Assistant Vice President, Marketing and Communications

Einav Lahav, Chief Financial Officer, HUC-JIR/Jerusalem

Lesley Litman, EdD, Coordinator, Faculty Instructional Support, Coordinator Virtual Pathway Launch

Karen Reiss Medwed, PhD, Interim Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Initiatives

Kenneth Rosen, Director, Student Life and Campus Culture, Los Angeles Campus

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, 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, Director, Master of Educational Leadership Program

Rabbi Edie Yakutis, Cincinnati Rabbinical School Program Manager