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Degrees

  • B.A., University of Pennsylvania 1974
  • M.A.H.L., Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion聽1977
  • M.Phil., Columbia 1986
  • Ph.D., Columbia 2003
Areas of Interest

American Judaism, Jewish law, American Jewish popular culture

Courses Taught
  • The Hebrew Bible
  • Judaism
  • Biblical Hebrew I & II
  • Jews, Judaism, and Jew Haters in the Modern World
  • History of the Jews
  • The Holocaust
  • Israel/Palestine: Histories in Conflict
Publications
  • 鈥淲hen Authority Is a Form of Dissent: Postwar Guides to Reform Ritual Observance.鈥 In Authority and Dissent in Jewish Life, 30th annual proceedings of the Klutznick-Harris Symposium on Jewish Life, ed. Leonard J. Greenspoon. Omaha: Creighton University Press, 2020, 147-165.
  • 鈥溾楾he Pilgrim Rabbis鈥: Reform Rabbis Behaving Badly in a Lost Satire.鈥 American Jewish Archives Journal vol. 70, nos. 1-2 (2018): 69-116.

In addition, as chair of the CCAR Responsa Committee since 2019, she is the primary author of decisions in Jewish law that guide Reform Judaism in North America. Those decisions are available at聽

Professional Affiliations
  • Chair, Central Conference of American Rabbis Responsa Committee
  • Member of the Association for Jewish Studies, American Historical Association, Jewish Law Association, the Central Conference of American Rabbis, and the Women鈥檚 Rabbinic Network
Awards
  • National Jewish Book Award Finalist, “Guidance, Not Governance”: Rabbi Solomon B. Freehof and Reform Responsa, Hebrew Union College Press, 2013