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The Reverend Professor Emeritus Robert Anderson AM is
an ordained Minister of the Uniting Church in Australia.
He retired in 1993 after twenty-nine years as Professor of Old Testament
Studies at Ormond College, University of Melbourne.
He has been Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church
of Victoria (1973-74), Visiting Scholar at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew
Studies (1981 and 1988), and Foundation Chairman of the Executive Committee
of the Council of Christians and Jews (1985-91).
In 1993 he was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM),
chiefly for his work in the area of Jewish and Christian relations.
He received the Raoul Wallenberg Award for Humanitarian Services in 1996,
presented by the Raoul Wallenberg Unit of Australian Bnei Brith.
Active in the area of relations between Jews and Christians for nearly
four decades, most of this time in close collaboration with Rabbi Ronald
Lubofsky.
He is the author of numerous publications in this field.
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Rabbi
Raymond Apple AM, RFD, BA, LL. B, M. Litt. has been senior rabbi
of the Great Synagogue, Sydney, since December 1972.
Born and educated in Melbourne, he qualified as a rabbi in London and
held historic London pulpits at Bayswater and then Hampstead before
returning to Australia to assume his present post.
He is a leading spokesman for Judaism in Australia.
He is senior rabbi to the Australian Defence Force and judge/registrar
of the Sydney Beth Din.
He teaches Jewish studies at Sydney University and Jewish Law
at the University of New South Wales, and is joint honorary
Master of Mandelbaum House at Sydney University.
He is past president of the Organisation of Rabbis of Australasia, and
of the Australian Jewish Historical Society.
He holds office in the Council of Christians and Jews and in many
other public bodies, and has had a lifetime of involvement in
inter-religious and inter-community dialogue.
In freemasonry, he is past grand chaplain of the United Grand Lodge
of NSW.
His services to the community have been recognised by the award
of AM (Member of the Order of Australia); the Queen's Silver Jubilee
Medal;
and the Reserve Force Decoration (RFD).
He and his wife Marian have four children and fifteen grandchildren.
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Dr Mark Baker is Associate Lecturer in the History
Department at the
University of Melbourne where he teaches Modern Jewish History.
He received his doctorate from Wolfson College at Oxford University
and has twice been a fellow at the Hebrew University.
He is the author of the prize-winning book, The Fiftieth Gate
(HarperCollins, 1997) and was editor of the quarterly Australian
Jewish magazine, Generation.
He is currently CEO of MindAtlas, an e-learning company.
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Rabbi Saul J Berman is a leading Orthodox teacher
and thinker. As a Rabbi, a scholar, and an educator, he has made extensive
contributions to the intensification of women's Jewish education, to the
role of social ethics in Synagogue life, and to the understanding of the
applicability of Jewish Law to contemporary society.
Rabbi Berman was ordained at Yeshiva University, from which he also received
his BA and his MHL. He completed a degree in law, a JD, at New York University,
and an MA in Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley.
He spent two years studying mishpat ivri in Israel at Hebrew University
and at Tel Aviv University. He is married to Shellee Berman, and they
have four children.
Rabbi Berman was the Rabbi of Congregation Beth Israel in Berkeley, California,
from 1963 to 1969.
He was an early leader in the Soviet Jewry movement, and an active participant
in the Civil Rights movement. He was present at the demonstrations in
Selma, Alabama in 1965. From 1969 to 1971, Rabbi Berman was the spiritual
leader of the Young Israel of Brookline, Mass., where he organised the
Torah Community Project, a study centred activist setting for students
and young adults in the Boston area.
In 1971, Rabbi Berman was appointed Chairman of the Department if Judaic
Studies of Stern College for Women of Yeshiva University. Under his leadership
over the next thirteen years, it grew into the largest undergraduate Department
of Jewish Studies in the United States. Focused on the study of original
texts and the acquisition of independent learning skills by women, the
program at Stern College impacted on Yeshiva High School education as
well as the surge of Yeshivot in Israel serving American women students.
In 1984, Rabbi Berman accepted the position as Senior Rabbi of Lincoln
Square Synagogue in Manhattan, where he served until 1990. During those
years, he spearheaded an expansion of the adult education program, the
creation of an extensive social action program based on halachic commitments,
the growth of the Synagogue's Women's Tefillah Group, and the creation
of new outreach programs to the unaffiliated.
In 1990, Rabbi Berman returned to academic life, as Associate Professor
of Jewish Studies at Stern College, and as an adjunct Professor at Columbia
University School of Law, where he teaches a seminar in Jewish Law.
From 1995 to 1997, he served as Scholar in Residence at the JCC on the
Palisades in New Jersey. In 1997, Rabbi Berman became Director of Edah,
a new organisation devoted to the invigoration of modern Orthodox ideology
and religious life.
Rabbi Berman is a contributor to the Encyclopedia Judaica and is the author
of numerous articles which have been published in journals such as Tradition,
Judaism, Journal of Jewish Studies, Dinei Yisrael, and many others. His
writings on the subject of women in Halachah and on issues of halachah
and contemporary issues have been often reprinted.
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Rabbi Benjamin Blech. In a national survey, Rabbi
Blech was recently ranked sixteenth in a listing of the fifty most influential
Jews in America.
A recipient of the American Educator of the Year Award, he has been an
associate professor of Talmud at Yeshiva University since 1966.
A tenth-generation rabbi, Rabbi Blech is a frequent lecturer in Jewish
communities around the world. Closer to home, he has appeared on national
television (including the Oprah Winfrey Show), and written for Newsweek,
The New York Times and Newsday, as well as a wide and varied number of
scholarly publications.
He is Rabbi Emeritus of the Young Israel of Oceanside congregation, which
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Rabbi Dr Jeffrey M Cohen was born in Manchester,
England, in 1940.
He studied at the Yeshivot of Manchester and Gateshead, and at Jews' College,
London, where he gained a first class honours degree (1963), a Master
of Philosophy and Minister's Diploma (1965), and a Ph. D from Glasgow
University (1978).
He has held several rabbinic, educational and academic appointments, including
lecturer in Hebrew Literature at Glagow University and lecturer in liturgy
at Jews' College, and has authored fifteen books and more than three hundred
articles for learned and popular journals.
He has been rabbi of the Stanmore and Canons Park Synagogue, the largest
Orthodox congregation in Britain, for the past sixteen years, and is in
regular demand as a lecturer and reviewer. He and his wife, Gloria, have
four children and ten grandchildren. |
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Rabbi
J Simcha Cohen is Chief Rabbi (Mara D'Atra) of the Mizrachi Kehilla
in Melbourne, Australia. He is a descendant of eighteen generations
of rabbis and was ordained by the renowned rabbinic sage, Rav Yitzchok
Hutner, the Rosh Yeshiva of the Rabbi Chaim Berlin Rabbinical Academy
in Brooklyn, New York.
Rabbi Cohen has a number of university degrees and is a member of the
noted American Honor Society, Phi Beta Kappa. He writes weekly columns
on Jewish law and morality for the Anglo Jewish publication, The Jewish
Press, with more than eight hundred articles published.
He is the author of six books on Jewish law and served at the helm of
major Jewish organisations. Rabbi Cohen served as a pulpit rabbi for
congregations on both the East and West coast of America and has resided
in Melbourne since 1996.
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The Right Honourable Sir Zelman Cowen AK, GCMG, GCVO,
QC, DCL was born 7 October 1919, Melbourne, educated Scotch College
and University of Melbourne where he took degrees in Arts and Law.
After war service in the Australian Navy, he took up a Rhodes Scholarship
in Oxford. Some of the positions he has held are: Fellow of Oriel College,
Oxford; Professor and Dean of Law, Melbourne University; Vice Chancellor
of New England and Queensland Universities; Governor-General of Australia;
Provost of Oriel College and Pro Vice-Chancellor, University of Oxford;
Chairman of British Press Council; Chairman of Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem;
National President of the Order of Australia Association and the Australia-Britain
Society; Chairman and a Director of John Fairfax Holdings; and Chairman
of Australian National Academy of Music.
He has written extensively on legal, political and social themes, and
is the recipient of knighthoods, honorary degrees, fellowships, and awards
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Rabbi Ralph Genende was born in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)
and grew up in South Africa. Married to Caron, with three beautiful children:
Eyal (15), Daniella (12) and Yonatan (8). He received semicha in South
Africa about seventeen years ago after studying at Yeshivot in South Africa
and Israel. Has a Master's Degree in counselling from Auckland University
and is a trained counsellor. Has worked as Registrar for conversions for
the Johannesburg Beth Din and was a chaplain in the South African Army.
Rabbi Genende was Senior Rabbi to the Auckland Jewish Community, New Zealand,
for ten years, during which time he also served as President of the Council
of Christians and Jews. Has been College Rabbi at Mount Scopus for four
years and is also the rabbi of Kehillat Beit Aharon (The Arnold Bloch
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Dr Jonathan Goldstein is Professor of History at
the State University of West Georgia, Carrollton, Georgia.
His books include The Jews of China and China and Israel, 1948-98, both
published in 1999. The Sino-Judaic Institute underwrote the basic research
for this article, which was completed while the author was Visiting Scholar
at the Oxford (England) Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. |
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Bill Gross was born in Minneapolis, attended Harvard
College and Business School in Boston and after six years in Chicago made
aliya to Israel in 1969 with his wife and three children. They live in
Tel Aviv.
Collecting Judaica has been a major focus in his life and for the last
ten years he has spent his full time in the field. The Gross Family Collection
has been represented in almost seventy exhibitions in America, Europe
and Israel. Bill Gross works today in research, cataloguing, writing and
lecturing about Jewish objects.
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Sylvia Axelrod Herskowitz is a graduate of Hunter
College, New York and Herzliah Hebrew Institute from which she has degrees
in art and Jewish studies.
In her early years, she taught art and early childhood education, and
worked for a pioneer firm in the modern design field, Richards Morgenthau.
After her marriage to Rabbi William Herskowitz, they moved to Toronto,
Canada, where she continued her art studies with Ron Satok, of the Ontario
College of Art. In 1962 their family relocated to New York, and she became
the program director and editor for Womens Branch of The Union of Orthodox
Jewish Congregations of America, travelling extensively throughout the
US and Canada to organise and conduct women's conferences, also serving
as editor, for ten years,of their bi-monthly newsletter. She also travelled
for the National Association of Hebrew Day Schools, organising conferences
and editing their weekly Torah Series.
In 1976 she became the director of Yeshiva University Museum, which had
been organised in 1973. Under her leadership, the Museum entered an era
of tremendous growth, organising highly acclaimed exhibitions and programs,
publishing prizewinning catalogues, and receiving major grants from such
prestigious agencies as the National Endowment for the Humanities, the
New York Department of Cultural Affairs, and the New York State Council
on the Arts.
She opened the galleries to the work of emerging Jewish artists and inaugurated
an outreach art program for public schools in the immediate neighbourhood.
She has served as Chair of the Council of American Jewish Museums, and
as a reviewer for the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 2000,
the Museum was invited to join the new Center for Jewish History, a partnership
of five cultural and research institutions, located in a new complex in
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Professor Moshe Kaveh, the President of Bar-Ilan
University since 1996, is an internationally-acclaimed physicist and one
of the boldest, most original and dynamic leaders of today's Modern Orthodox
community worldwide.
Professor Kaveh is best known for his 'three rules' for a united Jewish
people-hood: the supremacy of Klal Yisrael; the centrality of kevod habriot;
and the primacy of peace over truth.
Fearlessly outspoken, Professor Kaveh has lobbied for support of the Neeman
Commission's recommendations suggesting compromise on Jewish conversion
procedures in Israel; opposed coercive religious legislation in the Israeli
parliament; backed up the Israeli Supreme Court in face of assaults on
its integrity by radical and Ultra-Orthodox politicians; and relentlessly
pursued and promoted Jewish unity.
A Torah scholar and a provocative speaker, Professor Kaveh is also highly
respected by Israel's rabbinical leaders and religious educators. In meetings
with them and seminars that Bar-Ilan University frequently organises,
Professor Kaveh has been a resolute advocate of enlightened and open religious
education, including advanced Torah education for women. Professor Kaveh
has said that 'we need religious education that prepares our young to
tackle the challenges of the larger world, not education that teaches
them fear of, and insularity from, the modern world'.
Before assuming the presidency of Bar-Ilan University in 1996, Professor
Kaveh served as Chairman of the Physics Department, as Dean of the Faculty
of Natural Sciences, and as Rector of the university. He also served two
terms as chairman of the Council of Israeli University Presidents. An
expert in disordered systems, Professor Kaveh is Chief Scientist of Bar-Ilan
University's Minerva Centre in Mesoscopics, and director of the Resnick
Institute for Advanced Technology, a home for the absorption and retraining
of outstanding Russian immigrant scientists.
Professor Kaveh was recently elected to a third term as president of Bar-Ilan
University.
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Isi J Leibler AO CBE is a prominent international
Jewish leader with a distinguished record of contributions to the cause
of human rights. Currently resident in Israel, he holds the position of
Senior Vice President of the World Jewish Congress. He headed the Australian
Jewish community for many years prior to making aliya.
Isi Leibler was one of the founding activists in the international movement
to free Soviet Jews; he persuaded the Australian government to raise the
issue of Soviet Jewry at the United Nations - the first government in
the world to do so.
He wrote Soviet Jewry and Human Rights, which created a schism in the
international left and communist parties; developed close relationship
with refuseniks and dissidents in the Soviet Union until arrested and
expelled in 1980; was the first international Jewish leader invited by
the Soviets to evaluate Gorbachov changes; and established first Jewish
cultural centre - 'Solomon Mykhoels' - in Moscow and organised the first
Hebrew song festivals in the Soviet Union.
Among his other achievements, Isi leibler made a major contribution in
paving the way for diplomatic relations between Israel and China and India;
organised Asian-Jewish Colloquiums with leading Asian and international
Jewish scholars, including one on Sino Jewish cultural issues in Beijing
before diplomatic relations had been established with Israel; held many
senior positions on the executive of the World Jewish Congress; had personal
meetings with many European and Asian heads of state and American presidents;
and developed a close rapport with all Israeli Prime Ministers since Menachem
Begin.
Isi Leibler was awarded CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire),
AO (Officer of the Order of Australia), and an Honorary Doctor of Letters
from Deakin University.
Mr Leibler is a prolific writer and lecturer on Jewish issues, including
Israel-Diaspora relations, religious extremism and, most recently, Post
Zionism. Some of his works have been translated into Hebrew, Russian,
French and Spanish.
Isi Leibler is married to Naomi Leibler née Porush. They have four
children and twelve grandchildren.
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Rabbi
John Levi is Rabbi Emeritus of Temple Beth Israel in Melbourne and
Regional Director of the Australian and New Zealand Union for Progressive
Judaism. He is a graduate of Melbourne and Monash Universities in Melbourne
and of the Hebrew Union College of Cincinnati and Jerusalem.
He was one of the founders of the Council and Jews in Australia, an
International President of the World Conference for Religion and Peace
and is a member of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry.
He is the author of a number of books and articles on Australian Jewish
history. These include the biography of Rabbi Jacob Danglow - The Uncrowned
Monarch of Australian Jews, (Melbourne University Press, 1995).
A revised version of Australian Genesis-Jewish Convicts and Settlers
1788-1860 has just been published by Melbourne University Press and
a two volume Biographical Dictionary of Colonial Australian Jewry 1788-1850
is in preparation.
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Dr
Helen Light has a doctorate in Classical Studies from Monash University.
She has worked at the Jewish Museum of Australia since 1983 and has
been Director/Curator since 1991.
In this capacity she has curated or overseen more than sixty exhibitions
as well as the four permanent exhibitions at the Museum and has shepherded
the Museum's development into its new premises. Helen is involved in
several professional bodies. She is a Churchill Fellow and a recipient
of a Museum Achiever of the Year Award.
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Sam Lipski has worked as a journalist, broadcaster,
editor and publisher for more than forty years in the mainstream and Jewish
media.
From 1987 to 1998 he was the editor-in-chief and executive publisher of
the Australian Jewish News, where he continues to write as a columnist.
In 1998 he became the chief executive of The Pratt Foundation and in June
2000 he was appointed the president of the Library Board of Victoria. |
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Joshua Marrache is a seventh generation Gibraltarian
Jew who presently lives in Israel.
His Marrache ancestors migrated from Tetuan, Morocco to Gibraltar in the
mid-eighteenth century. He also descends from other old Gibraltarian Jewish
families including the Aboab, Toledano, Pariente, Beniso, Serfaty and
Massias families. He has conducted extensive research into the history
of the Jewish Community of Gibraltar and was responsible for the restoration
of the old Jewish cemetery at Jews Rock on Gibraltar dating back to 1740.
He has previously published a history of the Nefutsot Yehudah (or 'Flemish')
synagogue of Gibraltar in memory of his late father, Samuel Abraham Marrache.
He was the secretary of this synagogue during and after the presidency
of Sir Joshua Hassan. |
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The Reverend Dr Davis McCaughey AC, MA (Cantab &
Melb) DD (Edin) Hon. LL.D (Melb. & Queens Univ., Belfast, Monash).
Hon. D. Litt (La Trobe), Hon. STD (Melb. Coll. Divinity), FACE, FAHA
was born in Belfast in 1914, he was educated at Campbell College Belfast,
Pembroke College (Cambridge), New College (Edinburgh), the Pres. Coll
(Belfast).
Dr McCaughey came to Melbourne in 1953 to take up appointment as Professor
of New Testament Studies at Ormond College within the University of Melbourne,
and from 1959 to 1979 was Master of Ormond College.
In 1977 he was appointed the first President of the Assembly of the Uniting
Church in Australia. From 1986 to 1992 he was Governor of Victoria. From
1992 he has been Professorial Associate in the Department of History at
the University of Melbourne. Dr McCaughey is also a Life Member of the
Council for Christians and Jews (Vic) Inc. |
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Professor Bertram Mond was born in New York City.
He received his BA from Yeshiva University, his MA from Bucknell University
and his Ph.D in Mathematics from the University of Cincinnati. He received
his Semicha (Rabbinical Ordination) from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological
Seminary of Yeshiva University.
In 1969, he emigrated to Australia and took up the position of Professor
of Mathematics at La Trobe University in Melbourne. He held that positon
for almost thirty years during which time he served, on occasion, as dean,
acting vice-chancellor and editor of the Journal of the Australian Mathematical
Society.
He is currently an emeritus professor at La Trobe University and a research
associate at the University of Melbourne. |
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Rabbi Carl M Perkins has been the spiritual leader
of Temple Aliya in Needham, Massachusetts, USA, since 1991. Born and raised
in Philadelphia, PA, Rabbi Perkins earned an AB, summa cum laude, at Haverford
College. Before pursuing the rabbinate, he earned his JD, cum laude, at
Harvard Law School, and practised law for several years in Boston. Rabbi
Perkins was awarded a Wexner Fellowship to pursue rabbinical studies at
the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York, where he was ordained
and awarded a master's degree in Talmud and Rabbinics.
Rabbi Perkins is the author of the recently published revised edition
of Embracing Judaism (The Rabbinical Assembly, New York, USA), originally
written by his late father-in-law, Rabbi Simcha Kling. He has also published
articles and sermons in Conservative Judaism, Judaism, The American Rabbi,
Sh'ma and Living Words, an annual collection of High Holyday sermons.
Rabbi Perkins is married to Elana Kling Perkins; they are the parents
of Leora and Jeremy.
Rabbi Perkins' great-great-grandfather was Yitzhak Mordecai Lubofsky,
the great-grandfather of the late Rabbi Ronald Lubofsky.
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Rabbi David Rosen is the International Director of
Interreligious Affairs of the American Jewish Committee. He was born and
educated in Britain, continuing his advanced rabbinic studies in Israel,
where he received his ordination (semichah). In addition to military service
in the armored corps of the IDF, he served as Chaplain in Western Sinai.
From 1975 to 1979, he was the Senior Rabbi of the largest Jewish congregation
in South Africa and rabbinic judge on the Ecclesiastical Court (Beth Din).
He was also founder/chairman of the Inter-Faith Forum, the Council of
Jews, Christians and Muslims.
From 1979 to 1985, Rabbi Rosen was Chief Rabbi of Ireland, where he founded,
together with the Christian Primates of Ireland, the Irish Council of
Christians and Jews. He was a member of the Academic Council as well as
lecturer at the Irish School of Ecumenics.
He returned to Israel in 1985 to take up the appointment of Dean at the
Sapir Centre for Jewish Education and Culture in the Old City of Jerusalem
and subsequently became Professor of Jewish Studies at the Jerusalem Centre
for Near Eastern Studies.
At that time he also served as the Anti Defamation League's Director of
Interfaith Relations in Israel and as the ADL's co-liaison to the Vatican.
In 1997 he was appointed to the position of Director of the ADL Israel
office.
Rabbi Rosen is a founder of the Interreligious Coordinating Council in
Israel that embraces some seventy organisations in Israel involved in
interfaith relations. He is a member of the Permanent Bilateral Commission
of the State of Israel and the Holy See that negotiated the normalisation
of relations between the two; and he serves as a member of the International
Jewish Committee for Inter-Religious Consultations, which represents organised
World Jewry in its relations with other world religious bodies.
Rabbi Rosen is the President of the International Council of Christians
and Jews, the umbrella organisation for more than thirty national bodies
promoting Christian-Jewish relations. The ICCJ's Abrahamic Forum promotes
dialogue between Muslims, Christians and Jews. He is also a President
of the World Conference on Religion and Peace, the all-encompassing world
interfaith body (incorporating fifteen religions in more than fifty countries).
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Suzanne
D Rutland, author, historian and educator, is chair of the Department
of Semitic Studies at the University of Sydney, where she lectures in
Jewish Civilisation. Prior to that she pioneered a fully integrated
program in Jewish studies teacher education at the University of Sydney
where she completed her doctorate in Australian Jewish history in 1991.
She has published numerous books and articles on Australian Jewish history,
including Edge of the Diaspora: Two Centuries of Jewish Settlement in
Australia (1988, 2nd ed. 1997, 2001, third printing), and Pages of History:
A century of the Australian Jewish Press (1995). She is president of
the Australian Jewish Historical Society (Sydney) and immediate past
president of the Australian Association for Jewish Studies.
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Professor Shalom Sabar is a professor of Jewish Art
and Folklore and Chair of the Department of Jewish and Comparative Folklore,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Professor Sabar received his Ph. D in
Art History in 1987 at the University of California Los Angeles, and since
1988 has been teaching in the Hebrew University.
Over the years he has been serving the university and public in various
capacities, for example, advisor to the Ministry of Education on teaching
Jewish culture in Israeli schools, Director of 'Misgav Yerushalyim - The
Institute for the Study and Research of Sephardi and Oriental Communities'.
Deeply involved in museum life in Israel, and especially active in ethnic
Jewish museums in Israel and abroad. Serves as the editor and co-editor
of several academic periodicals (for example, editor of Rimonim - the
only periodical in Hebrew on Jewish art). Lectures widely in Israel, and
in academic institutions, museums and Jewish communities abroad (esp.
in the US), and guides tours to Jewish sites in Europe and North Africa.
Research interests: Jewish art and material culture in the Diaspora, especially
among Sephardi and Italian communities and among the Jews in the lands
of Islam; Biblical subjects and Hebrew inscriptions in European art; the
image of Jerusalem in world art; the influence of Islamic and Christian
cultures on Jewish material culture; the origin and development of Jewish
ceremonies and rituals; Jewish magic and superstition; the synagogue over
the ages; the image of the Jew in art.
Professor Sabar has published many articles and several books in these
fields.
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Professor Lawrence H Schiffman is Chairman of New
York University's Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and
serves as Ethel and Irvin A Edelman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies.
He received his BA, MA, and Ph.D degrees from Brandeis University.
He is a member of the team that published the Dead Scrolls in the series,
Discoveries in the Judean Desert, and is an editor of the journal Dead
Sea Discoveries. He edited the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls
and serves as a director of the Friedberg Genizah Project, which is designed
to create a unified catalogue of all Cairo genizah fragments and publish
its unpublished texts.
His publications include The Halakhah at Qumran (1975); Sectarian Law
in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Courts, Testimony, and the Penal Code (1983);
Who Was a Jew? Rabbinic Perspectives on the Jewish-Christian Schism (1985);
From Text to Tradition: A History of Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism
(1991); the jointly authored monograph, Hebrew and Aramaic Magical Texts
from the Cairo Genizah (1992); Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls (1994)
and some 150 articles on the Dead Sea Scrolls and Rabbinic Judaism.
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Jonathan Sheink is a graduate of Melbourne University,
where he studied BA Hons. LL. B. He practised law in private practice
in Melbourne until he made aliya with wife Chana in 1990.
After seven years of employment as a legal adviser in the Ministry of
Communications, he is now happily retired in Jerusalem where he can indulge
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Rabbi Professor Daniel Sinclair, LL.B (Hons) (London),
LL.M (Monash), LL.D (Hebrew University), Rabbinic Ordination, Jerusalem
- Professor of Jewish and Biomedical Law at the Law School, College of
Management, Rishon leZion and Visiting Professor in Comparative Biomedical
Law at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
Former appointments include Senior Research Fellow in Jewish Law at the
Hebrew University, Rabbi of the Edinburgh Hebrew Congregation and Pincipal
of Jews' College, London.
Professor Sinclair has published widely in the fields of Jewish law, the
jurisprudence of the Halachah, the influence of Jewish law on the legal
system of the State of Israel and Comparative Biomedical law. His book,
Tradition and the Biological Revolution, was published by Edinburgh University
Press in 1989, and his current manuscript on Contemporary Jewish Biomedical
Law is due to be published by Oxford University Press at the end of 2002.
During his period in the United Kingdom, Professor Sinclair served as
a member of the Ethics Committee of the Royal College of Physicians, and
held the portfolio for medical ethics in the Chief Rabbi's Cabinet. In
Israel, he advised the Law Committee of the Knesset on the issues of cloning
and germ-line therapy. |
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Professor Daniel Sperber is Milan Roven Professor
of Talmudic Research at Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel, and is
recipient of the Israel Prize for his research in Talmudic history and
the history of Jewish customs. He received his BA in Art History at the
Courtauld Institute of Art, London University and his Ph. D in Ancient
History and Hebrew Studies at University College, London.
He has published more than twenty-one volumes covering the fields of Talmudic
history, philology and everyday life, a series of six volumes to date
on the history and development of Jewish customs, and also many studies
in Jewish art and iconography. A former dean of the faculty of Jewish
Studies at Bar-Ilan University, he established the stream for Jewish art
history in the same university, the Leiber Centre for Jewish Art exhibitions,
and the first religious high school for girls with an emphasis on the
arts. He has been a visiting professor at the Jewish Theological Seminar
of America, Yeshiva University, New York, and Harvard University. |
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Professor Michael Edward Stone was brought up in
Sydney. He holds the degrees of BA (Hons) from Melboure University, Ph.
D from Harvard University and D. Litt. from Melbourne University. He is
Gail Levin de Nur Professor of Religious Studies and Professor of Armenian
Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. |
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Andrew Strum BA/LLB (Hons), Barrister-at-Law, first
met Rabbi Lubofsky shortly after his Bar-Mitzvah.
Over the following twenty years, Rabbi Lubofsky became his teacher, mentor
and friend who fostered his interest in all things Jewish.
He has published a number of articles in the fields of both the law and
Jewish (in particular, Sephardi) history. He is married to Dinah. They
have three children: Gabriel, Orly and Noa. It is to Andrew's great sorrow
that his children will not enjoy the privilege he had - of studying with
and learning from Rabbi Lubofsky. |
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Rabbi Marvin Tokayer served as a chaplain in the
United States Air Force, stationed in the Far East, and subsequently served
as rabbi of the Jewish Community of Japan, and director of religious,
educational and cultural activities for all the Jewish communities of
Southeast Asia and the Far East.
He is the author of twenty-eight books, in Japanese, on Judaica, numerous
articles on rabbinics and the far east for the Encyclopedia Judaica, and
'The Fugu Plan', the untold story of the Japanese and Jews during World
War II. He is currently the Rabbi of the Cherry Lane Minyan, in Great
Neck, New York. |
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Emeritus Professor Louis Waller AO LLB (Hons) (Melb.)
BCL (Oxon) FASSA has been a public teacher of law since 1959, when he
was appointed a Senior Lecturer in the University of Melbourne Law School.
He held the Sir Leo Cussen Chair of Law in Monash University from 1965
to 2000, and was Dean of Law in 1968-70.
He was Victorian Law Reform Commissioner in 1982-84, and foundation Chairman
of the Victorian Law Reform Commission 1984-85. He has been the Chairman
of the Victorian Government's IVF Committee 1982-84, the Standing Review
and Advisory Committee on Infertility 1985-93, and the Infertility Treatment
Authority 1995-2001.
Professor Waller has been a prominent participant in fostering tertiary
Jewish studies in Australia, especially in Monash University. He is a
Governor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv University.
He is the author of books, articles and chapters on criminal law, evidence
and law and medicine.
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R J Zwi Werblowsky is Martin Buber Professor (Emeritus)
of Comparative Religion, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Visiting
Professor at universities and Fellow of Research Institutes in Europe
(Netherlands, England, Germany, Switzerland, Spain), USA (Chicago, Harvard,
Yale, Stanford), Japan and Australia (Univ. of Melbourne). 1975-85 Secretary-General,
and 1985-95 Vice-President, of the International Association for the History
of Religions (IAHR).
He has published in the fields of Judaic and kabbalistic studies, East
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Zvi Zohar heads the Rappaport Centre for Assimilation
Research and the Strengthening of Jewish Vitality at Bar-Ilan University,
and is a Senior Research Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute of Advanced
Judaic Studies in Jerusalem, where he heads the Alan A and Loraine Fischer
Family Center for Contemporary Halachah. He is also a founding faculty
member of Paideia - The European Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden.
His research interests include all aspects of the anthropology, sociology,
history and philosophy of Halachah (the Jewish normative system) and the
social and cultural history of Jews in Muslim lands in modern times.
He has published more than forty articles in Hebrew and in European languages,
in addition to book length studies in Hebrew which include: Tradition
and Change (on the responses of Egyptian and Syrian rabbis to modernity),
Jerusalem (Ben Zvi Institute) 1993; Conversion and Jewish Identity (an
analysis of halachic understandings of conversion to Judaism, from Talmudic
times to the present) (co-authored with Avi Sagi), Jerusalem (SHI and
Bialik Institute), 1994; Realms of Identity and Deviance (an analysis
of halachic positions vis a vis desecrators of the Sabbath, from Talmudic
times to the present) (co-authored with Avi Sagi) Tel-Aviv (HaKibbutz
HaMeuhad press) 2000; and The Luminous Face of the East - Studies in the
Legal and Religious Thought of Sephardic Rabbis of the Middle East, Tel
Aviv (HaKibbutz HaMeuhad press) 2001.
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