Jewish Education and Jewish Communal Services
Associate Professor, Education/Instructional
Leadership &
Professional Development
Ph.D., Baltimore Hebrew University
Susanna Garfein, Program Director
Jewish Studies
Assistant Professor, Hebrew Bible and Northwest
Semitic Languages
Department of Philosophy a
nd Religious Studies
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Barry Freundel
Assistant Professor, Rabbinic Literature and History
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
Rabbinical Ordination, REITS, Yeshiva University
Ph.D., Baltimore
Hebrew University
Barry M. Gittlen
Program Coordinator, Undergraduate Jewish Studies minor
Professor, Biblical and Archaeological Studies
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Rebecca Shargel
Assistant Professor, Literacy & Jewish Education
Department of Educational Technology & Literacy
EdD, William Davidson School of Education, JTS
Shimon Shokek
Professor, Jewish Thought and Mysticism
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
Ph.D., Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Valerie Thaler
Assistant Professor, American Jewish History
Department of History
Ph.D., Yale University
Benjamin Fisher
Assistant Professor, European History
Department of History
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
