Steering Committee

Janet Aronson
Interim Director, Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies and Steinhardt Social Research Institute
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Expertise: Jewish community studies.

Lisa Fishbayn Joffe, SJD
Shulamit Reinharz Director of Hassadah-Brandeis Institute
- Expertise: Philosophy of multiculturalism, women’s rights under Jewish and secular family law, social movements in support of Agunot, Jewish feminist theory.

Jon Levisohn
Director, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education
Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Chair in Jewish Educational Thought
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Expertise: Philosophy of education, with particular interest in purposes, processes, and outcomes of Jewish education in all of its various settings, scholarship of teaching classical Jewish texts.