Stephen Daniel Arnoff

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Dr

Stephen Daniel Arnoff
Born (1969-11-13) November 13, 1969 (age 54)
Ohio, United States
Language
  • English
  • Hebrew
Citizenship
  • United States
  • Israel
Alma mater
  • The Jewish Theological Seminary of America
  • Brandeis University
  • NYU School of Law
Notable worksAbout Man and God and Law: The Spiritual Wisdom of Bob Dylan
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Dr. Stephen Daniel Arnoff (formerly Stephen Hazan Arnoff; born November 13, 1969, in Ohio) is a writer, musician, teacher and community builder.

Contents

Holding a doctorate in Midrash and Scriptural Interpretation from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America as a Wexner Graduate Fellow, Arnoff teaches and lectures at synagogues, conferences, community centers, universities, and private and corporate convenings around the world, specializing in the nexus of religion, spirituality, identity, and culture.

Formerly a Mandel Jerusalem Fellow, a Revson Fellow, and a Tikvah Scholar at the NYU School of Law, the Forward referred to Arnoff as "the godfather of New Jewish Culture" when he founded the 14th Street Y's LABA, which since 2007 has established Jewish artist residencies in New York City, the Bay Area, Berlin, Barcelona, Buenos Aires, and Istanbul. He has also served as the Chair of the Board for Jerusalem Culture Unlimited between 2017–2024.

Career

Leadership and management positions

Since 2017, Dr. Stephen Daniel Arnoff has been the CEO of the Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center where he provides professional leadership for a vital center of education, culture and spirituality in Jerusalem, Israel. In 2015–2016, Arnoff served as the CEO and President of the JCC Association [1] [2] in New York, NY, where he represented more than 120 local JCCs to key organizations and donors in the North American Jewish community and primarily focused on strategic planning and management as well as issues of long-term visioning and positioning of JCCs in the wider community. Arnoff stepped down from this position in order to move back to Israel with his family. [3]

As the Director of Culture, Community and Society at the Shalem College in Jerusalem, in 2013–2015 [4] Arnoff supervised all non-academic student activity. In this position, he built and facilitated community service programs for students, managed cultural and non-academic programs and events, founded a weekly leadership seminar featuring leading figures in Israel and the Jewish world, and partnered with leading Israeli cultural and academic institutions.

In 2007–2013, Arnoff served as Executive Director of the 14th Street Y (New York, NY), where he supervised all the programs and operations of a JCC in the East Village of Manhattan. During this time Arnoff founded and directed the 14th Street Y's LABA: A Laboratory for Jewish Culture. Prior to this period, in 2002–2005, Arnoff served as the Founding Director of Artists Networks and Programming at the MAKOR/Steinhardt Center of the 92nd Street Y (New York, NY). [5] In this role, Arnoff established the MAKOR Artists-in-Residence and was responsible for programming the MAKOR Theater, Gallery, and Lecture Hall. In 2000–2002, Arnoff served as the Founding Co-Director of The Artist Workshop Experiment (New York, NY and Jerusalem), where he created and facilitated intensive Jewish study workshops and public installations, events, and performances by and for artists from multiple disciplines in New York and Jerusalem (funded by the Bronfman Youth Fellowships).

Teacher

Published works

His book About Man and God and Law: The Spiritual Wisdom of Bob Dylan, [6] based on his popular podcast on the Pantheon Podcast Network, was published in 2022, and has been called "a revelation". Arnoff writes regularly for The Times of Israel , having served as Manager Editor of Zeek, and a contributor to The Forward , The Jerusalem Post , HuffPost , and more. He was awarded the Rockower Prize for Jewish Journalism for his essay on Philip Roth, and has contributed books on Jewish communal life, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, and contemporary spirituality.

Books

Chapters in books

Articles

Music and performance

Podcaster

Composer and music director

Singer, performer and instrumentalist

Awards and honors

Education

Personal life

Having made aliyah to Israel in 1994 and served in the IDF's Engineering Corps, Stephen Daniel Arnoff lives in Jerusalem with his four children. Dr. Arnoff has volunteered as the Board Chair of Jerusalem Culture Unlimited, [79] an umbrella organization supporting management consulting, strategic planning and execution, resource development, and cultivation of partnership organizations for 50+ emerging arts and culture organizations in Jerusalem (2018–2024).

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