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Hebrew College’s Marketing team works to raise awareness about Hebrew College by featuring people, events and news within our vibrant community. Our staff members work with the press to communicate news about faculty and student research and achievements and college programs and events, as well as to provide information about and arrange interviews with students, administrators, and faculty expert. The team also works with students, faculty members, and administrators who need assistance pitching a story or preparing for an interview.

Media Inquiries

Hebrew College’s Marketing team is available to assist journalists seeking information about Hebrew College; to connect journalists with academic experts; and to help journalists interested in featuring a Hebrew College student or faculty member. Please reach out to Wendy Linden, Chief Marketing Officer, at 617.559.8732 or wlinden@hebrewcollege.edu.

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If you have a suggestion for a story about Hebrew College students, faculty, alumni, projects, or events that would interest external media, please reach out to Please reach out to Wendy Linden, Chief Marketing Officer, at 617.559.8732 or wlinden@hebrewcollege.edu.

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The Hebrew College press kit is a resource for members of the media looking for information about the College. For more information, please contact Wendy Linden, Chief Marketing Officer, at 617.559.8732 or wlinden@hebrewcollege.edu.

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Founded in 1921, Hebrew College promotes excellence in Jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor, personal engagement, and spiritual creativity. It offers graduate programs for rabbis, cantors, and Jewish educators, and community learning programs for youth and adults. For more information, visit hebrewcollege.edu.

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Hebrew College’s faculty experts are available to provide commentary on Jewish history and contemporary events, as well as Jewish texts and traditions. Learn more about our faculty here. Need help finding an expert? Call us at 617-559-8785l.

 

Contemporary Religious life

Rabbi Justin David, Dean, Rabbinical School of Hebrew College

Halakhah

Rabbi Jane Kanarek, Associate Dean and Professor of Rabbinics, Rabbinical School of Hebrew College

Hasidism

Rabbi Nehemia Polen, Professor of Jewish Thought, Rabbinical School of Hebrew College

Interreligious Learning

Rabbi Or Rose, Director, Miller Center for Interreligious Learning & Leadership at Hebrew College

Judaism and Gender

Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld, President, Hebrew College

Judaism and Social Justice

Rabbi Or Rose, Director, Miller Center for Interreligious Learning & Leadership at Hebrew College

Modern Jewish History and Thought

Rabbi Dan Judson, Dean, Graduate Leadership Programs of Hebrew College

Nusach AND CAntillation

Joshua Jacobson, Faculty, Cantorial Program

Philosophy of Religious Education and Spiritual Development in Jewish Education

Rabbi Justin David, Dean, Rabbinical School of Hebrew College

Rabbi Dr. Michael Shire, Academic Director, Master of Jewish Education Program

Dr. Susie Tanchel, Vice President

Psychology of religion/ comparative religious ethics

Solomon Schimmel, Professor Emeritus

Talmud

Rabbi Jane Kanarek, Associate Dean; Professor of Rabbinics

Yiddish literature and language

Rabbi Dan Judson, Dean, Graduate Leadership Programs of Hebrew College

Rabbi Jordan Schuster, Mekorot Program Director, Rabbinical School of Hebrew College

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