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Fall 2005 Faculty Professor Jay Berkovitz is Professor of Jewish History at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he directs the Center for Jewish Studies. He is also the faculty advisor to KHH, the Orthodox student group there. The author of several books and numerous studies devoted to the Jews in early modern Europe, he specializes in social and intellectual history and the history of Halakhah. He recently received semicha from Rav Daniel Channen in Jerusalem. Rabbi Reuven Cohn, designated as a Master Teacher at Ma’ayan, received his ordination from Yeshiva University, did graduate work in Jewish Studies at Harvard University, and earned a law degree from Yale Law School. He has taught numerous adult education classes in the Boston area, and is currently on the Talmud faculty at Maimonides High School. Dr. Norma Joseph, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Religion at Concordia University, is director of the Women and Religion specialization. Her teaching and research areas include women and Judaism, Jewish law and ethics, and women and religion. Since the early 1970s, she has promoted women's greater participation in Jewish religious and communal life. She is a founding member of the Canadian Coalition of Jewish Women for the Get (Jewish divorce). Currently working in two research areas, Jewish law and gender, and food, identity and gender, Dr. Joseph lectures and publishes on many topics. Malka Simkovich is a graduate of Stern College, where she double-majored in Bible Studies and Music and is currently a graduate student in the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations department at Harvard University. She is also a Bible Instructor and helps coordinate student activities at the Maimonides School. Simkovich founded and directed TEHILA, a women's learning program in Philadelphia. Dr. Avi Rockoff received his BA from Yeshiva University and his MD at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. For the past 25 years he has taught classes and has both organized and led adult education programs in Newton and Brookline synagogues. Cookie Rosenbaum is the Judaic Studies principal at the Striar Hebrew Academy in Sharon. She has taught in several adult education settings as well as at the University of Denver. She served as founding board member and faculty member of Lishmah, a women’s study center in Denver, Colorado. |
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