Michael L. Chernick

Dr. Chernick is Deutsch Professor of Jewish Jurisprudence and Social Justice at HUC-JIR/New York. He was educated at Yeshiva College and Bernard Revel Graduate School and was ordained at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. He specializes in Talmudic and halachic literature.

Education
  • Ordained, Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University (1968)
  • Ph.D., Bernard Revel Graduate School
Lecture Titles
  • The Talmudic Tradition and the Contemporary World
  • "Revealing a Hidden Light": A Literary Approach to the Talmudic Short Story
  • Maimonides's Philosophy of Jewish Law
  • Toward an Authentic Jewish Spirituality
  • "You Shall be as Gods": Traditional Judaism Faces the Brave New World
  • "Must I Love my Fellow Jews?": Halakhic Judaism and Jewish Religious Pluralism
Recent Books
  • Essential Papers on the Talmud (ed.) New York University Press, 1995 (order online from amazon.com)
  • The Writing was the Writing of God. HUC Press (forthcoming)
Articles
  • "Maire de France in the Synagogue" in Examplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. (2006)
  • "Turn it and turn it again": Culture and Talmud Interpretation, in Turn It Again, ed. Sheila Delany (Pegasus Press, 2005).
In the News
  • Contributor to an article on Get and 'Agunot, by Anne Givens, Newsday, 2005.
Rabbinical Studies
Cantorial Studies
Jewish Educational Studies
Jewish Communal
Service Studies
Grad/Undergrad Studies
Continuing Education
& Youth Programs