Meshullam Zalman Schachter-Shalomi,commonly called "Reb Zalman",was one of the founders of the Jewish Renewal movement and an innovator in ecumenical dialogue.
Chabad,also known as Lubavitch,Habad and Chabad-Lubavitch,is an Orthodox Jewish Hasidic dynasty. Chabad is one of the world's best-known Hasidic movements. It is one of the largest Hasidic groups as well as one of the largest Jewish religious organizations in the world. Unlike most Haredi groups,which are self-segregating,Chabad mainly operates in the wider world and it caters to secularized Jews.
Jehuda Reinharz served as President of Brandeis University from 1994–2010. He is currently the Richard Koret Professor of Modern Jewish History and Director of the Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry at Brandeis. He is also the president and CEO of the Jack,Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation. On September 25,2009,Reinharz announced his retirement as President of Brandeis,but at the request of the Board of Trustees,he stayed on until a replacement could be hired. On January 1,2011,Reinharz became president and CEO of the Jack,Joseph,and Morton Mandel Foundation.
Jewish studies is an academic discipline centered on the study of Jews and Judaism. Jewish studies is interdisciplinary and combines aspects of history,Middle Eastern studies,Asian studies,Oriental studies,religious studies,archeology,sociology,languages,political science,area studies,women's studies,and ethnic studies. Jewish studies as a distinct field is mainly present at colleges and universities in North America.
Lawrence Harvey Schiffman is a professor at New York University;he was formerly Vice-Provost of Undergraduate Education at Yeshiva University and Professor of Jewish Studies. He had previously been Chair of New York University's Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and served as the Ethel and Irvin A. Edelman Professor in Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University (NYU). He is currently the Judge Abraham Lieberman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University and Director of the Global Institute for Advanced Research in Jewish Studies. He is a specialist in the Dead Sea Scrolls,Judaism in Late Antiquity,the history of Jewish law,and Talmudic literature.
Jacob Rader Marcus was a scholar of Jewish history and a Reform rabbi.
David G. Dalin is an American rabbi and historian,and the author,co-author,or editor of twelve books on American Jewish history and politics,and Jewish-Christian relations.
Hebrew College is a private college of Jewish studies in Newton Centre,Massachusetts. Founded in 1921,the college conducts Jewish scholarship in a pluralistic,trans-denominational academic environment. Its president is Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld. Hebrew College offers undergraduate completion and graduate degrees,Hebrew-language training,a rabbinical school,a cantorial program and adult-learning and youth-education programs.
Norman Arthur Stillman,also Noam,is an American academic,historian,and Orientalist,serving as the emeritus Schusterman-Josey Professor and emeritus Chair of Judaic History at the University of Oklahoma. He specializes in the intersection of Jewish and Islamic culture and history,and in Oriental and Sephardi Jewry,with special interest in the Jewish communities in North Africa. His major publications are The Jews of Arab Lands:a History And Source Book and Sephardi Religious Responses to Modernity. In the last few years,Stillman has been the executive editor of the "Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World",a project that includes over 2000 entries in 5 volumes.
The history of the Jews in Kazakhstan connects back to the history of Bukharan and Juhuro Mountain Jews. Kazakh Jews have a long history. At present,there are several thousand Jews in Kazakhstan.
Nahum Mattathias Sarna was a modern biblical scholar who is best known for the study of Genesis and Exodus represented in his Understanding Genesis (1966) and in his contributions to the first two volumes of the JPS Torah Commentary (1989/91). He was also part of the translation team for the Kethuvim section of the Jewish Publication Society's translation of the Bible,known as New Jewish Publication Society of America Version.
Deborah Dash Moore is the former director of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies and a Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor of History and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor,Michigan.
Sergio Della Pergola is an Italian-Israeli demographer and statistician. He is a professor and demographic expert,specifically in demography and statistics related to the Jewish population.
Orthodox Jewish outreach,often referred to as Kiruv or Qiruv,is the collective work or movement of Orthodox Judaism that reaches out to non-observant Jews to encourage belief in God and life according to Jewish law. The process of a Jew becoming more observant of Orthodox Judaism is called teshuva making the "returnee" a baal teshuva. Orthodox Jewish outreach has worked to enhance the rise of the baal teshuva movement.
Steven B. Bowman is an American scholar and academic particularly known for his research of Greek and Jewish relations throughout the past three millennia,with emphasis on Byzantine and Holocaust periods. He is a professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Cincinnati,where he teaches a wide range of courses in ancient and medieval Judaic Studies and modern Israel.
David B. Ruderman is the Joseph Meyerhoff Professor of Modern Jewish History at the University of Pennsylvania,Emeritus. From 1994 to 2014 he was the Ella Darivoff Director of Penn's Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies,where he also held a fellowship from 2017 to 2018. He was trained at the City College of New York,the Teacher's Institute of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America,and Columbia University. He earned rabbinical ordination from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York and his doctorate in Jewish History from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Prior to taking his position at the University of Pennsylvania,he held teaching positions at Yale University and the University of Maryland.
Marshall Sklare (1921–1992) was an American sociologist whose work focused on American Jews and the American Jewish Community. Sklare was the Klutznick Family Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies and Sociology at Brandeis University. Because of his contributions to the social scientific study of Jewry,Sklare is known as the "father of American Jewish sociology".
The Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (JLI) is a division of Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch,the educational arm of the Chabad-Lubavitch Orthodox Jewish Hasidic dynasty. It offers adult Jewish courses on Jewish history,law,ethics,philosophy and rabbinical literature worldwide. It also develops Jewish studies curricula specifically for women,college students,teenagers,and seniors.
Lance Jonathan Sussman is a historian of American Jewish History,college professor,Chair of the Board of Governors of Gratz College,Melrose Park,PA and until summer 2022 the senior rabbi,now emeritus,at Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel (KI) located in Elkins Park,PA. He is the author of books and articles including:Isaac Leeser and the Making of American Judaism (1995) and Sharing Sacred Moments (1999),and a co-editor of Reform Judaism in America:A Biographical Dictionary and Sourcebook (1993) and New Essays in American Jewish History (2009). Since 2010 he has also published articles on Judaism and art.
Sylvia Barack Fishman is an American feminist sociologist and author. She is the Joseph and Esther Foster Professor of Judaic Studies at Brandeis University,Co-Director of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute,and a board member of JOFA,the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance. She writes about Jewish life in America.
