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