Isa E. Aron, Ph.D.

Professor of Jewish Education

Dr. Aron is Professor of Jewish Education, HUC/JIR, Los Angeles. She holds a B.A. in philosophy from Swarthmore College, a Ph.D. in philosophy of education from the University of Chicago, and did post-doctoral work at the Center for the Study of Social Intervention at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She teaches courses in teaching, philosophy of education and organizational change, and is the founding director of the Rhea Hirsch School of Education's Experiment in Congregational Education (ECE). Dr. Aron's publications include Becoming a Congregation of Learners, The Self-Renewing Congregation, and Sacred Strategies: Transform Functional Synagogues into Visionary Congregations, with Steven M. Cohen, Larry Hoffman and Ari Y. Kelman (forthcoming, Alban Press, 2010).

Areas of Expertise
  • Jewish education
  • Synagogue change
  • Re-imagining the religious school
  • Teaching Jewish texts to adults
  • Approaches to moral education
  • Museum education
Education
  • Ph.D., University of Chicago (1975)
  • Post-doctoral training: Center for the Study of Social Intervention at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (1975-1977)
Lecture Titles
  • Transforming a Functional Congregation to a Visionary One
  • Becoming a Congregation of Learners
  • Becoming a Self-Renewing Congregation
  • Re-imagining the Congregational School
  • How to Study Torah
  • What is Excellence in Congregational Education?
  • New Ways of Thinking about Jewish Education
  • How to Teach Children to Be Moral
Electronic Publications
Rabbinical Studies
Cantorial Studies
Jewish Educational Studies
Jewish Communal
Service Studies
Grad/Undergrad Studies
Continuing Education
& Youth Programs