Gerald Bubis, M.S.W., D.H.L. (h.c.)

Founder and Professor Emeritus of the School of Jewish Communal Service

Professor Gerald Bubis is the founding director of the School of Jewish Communal Service. Presently he is Vice President and Fellow at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and Adjunct Professor of Social Work at the University of Southern California. He has functioned as lecturer, trainer and consultant in over 100 communities throughout the world.

Areas of Expertise
  • Organizational management
  • American Jewish communal system
Education
  • B.A., University of Minnesota (1948)
  • M.S.W., University of Minnesota (1950)
In the News Recent Books
  • Growing Jews - Selected Writings, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Los Angeles, California, 2001, 495 pages. The Costs of Jewish Living, American Jewish Committee, 2002. 28 pages.
  • From Predictability to Chaos, with Steven Windmueller, Center for Jewish Community Studies, in press, 2005, 160 pages.
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  • Guide Yourself Accordingly: A Memoir With Gordon Cohn, Self published, Los Angeles, California, 2005, 285 pages.
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  • The Director Had a Heart Attack and the President Resigned, Revised Edition, in press, 2005.
Publications
Rabbinical Studies
Cantorial Studies
Jewish Educational Studies
Jewish Communal
Service Studies
Grad/Undergrad Studies
Continuing Education
& Youth Programs