Barry Shrage has served as president of CJP—Boston’s Jewish Federation—since 1987. Under Barry’s leadership, CJP is focused on three priorities: Jewish education and engaging future generations, strengthening our connection to Israel through community-to-community and people-to-people partnerships, and creating a caring community. He champions true partnerships between CJP, donors and recipient organizations—inspiring the Jewish...
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Dr. Jonathan Sarna is the Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University and Chief Historian of the new National Museum of American Jewish History. Dubbed by the Forward newspaper in 2004 as one of America’s fifty most influential American Jews, he was Chief Historian for the 350th commemoration of the American Jewish community, and is recognized as a leading commentator on American Jewish...
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Ruth Langer, C’86, is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies in the Theology Department and Associate Director of the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at Boston College. Her book, Cursing the Christians?: A History of the Birkat HaMinim, has just appeared with Oxford University Press.
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Rabbi Nehemiah Polen, Ph.D., is a National Jewish Book Award recipient and is Professor of Jewish Thought at Hebrew College, Boston.
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Rabbi Aaron Panken, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Rabbinic and Second Temple Literature at Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion in New York. He has taught at the College since 1995, and served as Dean from 1998-2006. An alumnus of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship, he earned his doctorate in Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University, where his research focused on legal change in Talmudic and Midrashic Literature. He...
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