Cincinnati, thus facilitating her
Ph.D. studies in liturgical law and
customs in medieval Jewry rather
than deferring them as originally
planned.
Malino
also points to
the “wonderful group of budding
scholars with whom I shared
small classes: David Ruderman,
Marc Saperstein, Norman
Cohen, Larry Hoffman, Michael
Morgan, and Michael Cook.”
Marc Lee Raphael
reminisces
about “Alfred Gottschalk hitting
a homerun off of my awesome
windmill windup fastball at
Camp Saratoga in 1958.”
Seltzer
recalls participating in
an archaeological expedition led
by Nelson Glueck to the barren,
rocky slopes of the Negev where
he uncovered some Judean and
Nabatean potsherds, but mostly
rocks, and later “going to the
Beersheva camel market where
Eleanor Roosevelt was buying a
baby camel for a grandchild!”
“
In addition to spending several
nights at the homeless shelter
sponsored by HUC-JIR and
housed in the basement apart-
ment of the dormitory
building,” remembers
Matthew
Kraus
, “
I vividly remember
going down to Over-the-Rhine
with a group of students to help
clean up and repair an apart-
ment so that a homeless family
could have a permanent place to
live. For me, HUC-JIR repre-
sented an opportunity to actual-
ize a Jewish life that integrates
Torah, worship, and
gemilut
chasadim
(
acts of justice).”
HUC-JIR faculty served as key
mentors to these alumni during
their rabbinical studies. The list
of mentors highlights the gener-
ations of great scholars and
teachers at HUC-JIR: Samuel
Atlas, Lewis Barth, Sheldon
Blank, Eugene Borowitz, Stanley
Chyet, Martin Cohen, Alan
Cooper, William Cutter, Alfred
Gottschalk, Joseph Gutmann,
Alexander Guttman, Adam
Kamesar, Leonard Kravitz,
Samson Levey, Leon Liebreich,
Jacob Marcus, Michael Meyer,
Jakob Petuchowski, Ellis Rivkin,
Samuel Sandmel, Richard
Sarason, Henry Slonimsky, Ezra
Spicehandler, J.J. Tepfer,
Matitiahu Tsevat, Ben-Zion
Wacholder, and Werner Weinberg.
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Daniel S. Breslauer, N ’69
Professor of Religious Studies, University of Kansas
|
Modern Jewish
thought, particularly modern or contemporary Jewish ethics
|
He has just
published
CreatingA JudaismWithout Religion: A Postmodern Jewish Possibility
and is working on
Postmodern Images of Jewishness
that suggests ways
of reconceiving Jewish selfhood, the ideas of God-Torah-Israel, and Jewish
textuality that allows for difference and diversity rather than uniformity.
Frederick E. Greenspahn, C ’73
Professor of Religious Studies, University of Denver
|
Bible and the his-
tory of Jewish biblical interpretation
|
His next book will explore the
Bible’s role throughout the spectrum of Judaism, considering its place in
liturgy and Jewish thought as well as in Kabbalah, rabbinics, and Zionism.
Peter J. Haas, C ’74
Abba Hillel Silver Professor of Jewish Studies; Director, Samuel Rosenthal
Center for Judaic Studies; Chair, Department of Religion, Case Western
Reserve University
|
Classical Jewish ethics, dealing with responsa litera-
ture
|
His new book is on
Human Rights in Judaism
and he is working on
ethics and theology after the Shoah.
Matthew Kraus, C ’91
Associate Professor of Classics; Chair, Jewish Studies Program, Williams
College
|
Judaism in the Greek and Roman periods
|
He is working on
a book on Jerome’s translation of the book of Exodus according to the
Hebrew in relation to Classical, Christian, and Jewish traditions of
interpretation.
Ruth Langer, C ’86; C ’94 Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Jewish Studies, Theology Department; Associate
Director, Center for Christian-Jewish Learning, Boston College
|
Jewish
liturgy and Jewish-Christian relations
|
Her recent articles are on the
earliest known sources for Torah liturgies, how the
amidah
shaped Jewish
identity in the first few centuries C.E., and a survey of Jewish theologies
of the religious other. She is immersed in a study of the transformations
in the
birkat haminim
(
the malediction of the heretics) in Jewish litur-
gies over the last millennium, particularly those caused by Christian
censorship and changes in the relations between Jews and Christians.
Jonathan W. Malino, N ’79
Professor of Philosophy, Guilford College
|
Philosophy of psychology
and philosophy of religion
|
He is co-authoring a book on
Love of Life in
the Consciousness of Impotence: An American Philosophy of Judaism
,
and has edited a
Festschrift
for David Hartman.
Michael L. Morgan, N ’70
Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Studies; Adjunct Professor of
Religious Studies, Indiana University
|
The history of philosophy
|
He is
working on
Discovering Levinas
,
which places Levinas’ thought within the
context of 20
th
century Anglo-American philosophy, has been asked to
edit a
Cambridge Companion to Modern Jewish Philosophy
,
and is working
on a a collection of papers on the work of Emil Fackenheim in honor of his
85
th
birthday.
Rabbinical Alumni in Universities
|
Areas of Specialization
|
Newest Research
|
Marc Lee Raphael, C ‘68
Ruth Langer, C ‘86; C ‘94 Ph.D.
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Matthew Kraus, C ’91