Faculty

The Hornstein Program's faculty is unparalleled: leading researchers and consultants in the Jewish community who bring a vast range of experience and knowledge to the Hornstein Program and its student.

Rabbi Shirley Idelson
Rabbi Shirley Idelson
Leon A. Jick Director and Associate Professor, Hornstein Jewish Professional Leadership Program
781-736-2998 Lown Center for Judaica Studies, 213

ExpertiseAmerican Jewish history, history of higher education, history of Reform Judaism, the American rabbinate, and journalism

Fern Chertok
Fern Chertok
Director of Advising and Fieldwork
781-736-2079 Lown Center for Judaica Studies, 108

Expertise: Impact of Jewish adult education on emerging leaders in Jewish communal service, the effectiveness of courses on Jewish literacy on parents of preschoolers, and the involvement of interfaith families in synagogues

Jonathan Golden
Jonathan Golden
Lecturer, Hornstein Program
  • Expertise: American Jewish history, history of Zionism and Israel, history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Israel education.

Nancy K. Kaufman
Nancy K. Kaufman
Senior Advisor, Hornstein Program
  • Expertise: Stragetic planning, organizational development, social justice advocacy, Israel advocacy, governmental relations, nonprofit leadership

Lynn Kaye
Lynn Kaye
Associate Professor of Rabbinic Literature and Thought
Lown Center for Judaica Studies, 205
  • Expertise: Law, hermeneutics, narrative and thought in rabbinic literature, philosophies of time, legal theory, religions of late antique Mesopotamia and critical and literary theory.

Jonathan Krasner
Jonathan Krasner
Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Associate Professor of Jewish Education Research
781-736-2372 Abraham Shapiro Academic Complex, 123
  • Expertise: American Jewish history, history of American Jewish education, history of American education, contemporary Jewish studies, Jewish cultural studies, history of American youth and childhood, Jewish gender and sexuality studies

Meredith Lewis
Meredith Lewis
Lecturer, Hornstein Program
  • Expertise: Nonprofit management, transition management, community engagement, product design, and journalism.

Daniel Palmer
Daniel Parmer
Lecturer, Hornstein Program
  • Expertise: Contemporary Jewish life and identity, survey research/design, qualitative analysis, quantitative analysis

Joseph Reimer
Joseph Reimer
Professor Emeritus of Jewish Education
781-736-2996 Abraham Shapiro Academic Complex, 216
  • Expertise: Jewish experiential education, professional leadership development and Jewish learning in summer camps

Tom Rose
Tom Rose
Lecturer, Hornstein Program
  • Expertise: Clinical psychology, human resources management and HR executive in the for-profit and not-for-profit worlds

Jonathan D. Sarna
Jonathan D. Sarna
University Professor
Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History; Director, Schusterman Center for Israel Studies
781-736-2977 Mandel Center for the Humanities, 307
  • Expertise: American Jewish history and life, Jews in the Americas, American religion, American Jews and Israel

Kimberlee Schumacher
Kimberlee Schumacher
Lecturer, Hornstein Program
  • Expertise: Management consulting, strategy, fundraising, and non-profit leadership

Barry Shrage
Barry Shrage
Professor of the Practice
781-736-2313 Lown 213a
  • Expertise: Jewish engagement, nonprofit leadership and management, development and fundraising, Jewish identity education

Andrea B. Wasserman
  • Expertise: Strategic planning, organizational development, philanthropy and fundraising in Jewish nonprofits

Affiliated Faculty

Brenda Anderson
Brenda Anderson
Senior Lecturer
The Heller School for Social Policy and Management and the Brandeis International Business School
781-736-8423 Heller-Brown Building, 203
Lawrence Bailis
Lawrence Bailis
Associate Professor
617-868-2468 Heller-Brown Building, 369
Carole Carlson
Carole Carlson
Senior Lecturer and MBA Program Director in the Heller School for Social Policy and Management
781-736-8361 Irving Schneider and Family Building (Heller School), 203
Michael Doonan
Michael Doonan
Associate Professor
MPP Program Director
781-736-4831 Heller-Brown Building, 207
Sharon Feiman-Nemser
Sharon Feiman-Nemser
Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Professor of Jewish Education
781-736-2946 Abraham Shapiro Academic Complex, 111
Jon Levisohn
Jon Levisohn
Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Professor of Jewish Educational Thought
781-736-2941 Abraham Shapiro Academic Complex, 123

Emeriti

Susan Shevitz
  • Expertise: Jewish education, organizational behavior, planning and leadership

Ellen Smith
Ellen Smith
Professor Emerita
  • Expertise: Visual and material culture, museum studies, Jewish women's history, American Jewish history, Boston and Boston Jewish history, professional leadership training

In Memoriam

Bernie Reisman
Bernie Reisman z"l
Professor Emeritus
Hornstein Director 1969-1994

Read more about Bernard Reisman on our history page.