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Aaron D. Panken
Rabbi Aaron Panken, Ph.D., who has taught Rabbinic and Second Temple Literature at Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion in New York since 1995, serves as Vice President for Strategic Initiatives and has served as Dean since 1998. An alumnus of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship, he earned his doctorate in Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University, where his research focused on legal change in Talmudic and Midrashic Literature. He currently serves on faculty for the Wexner Foundation, as a member of the Birthright Israel Education Committee, the International Council of the New Israel Fund, the Rabbinical Placement Commission, the CCAR Ethics Committee and in a variety of other leadership roles within the Reform movement and greater Jewish community. A native of New York City who graduated from Johns Hopkins University's Electrical Engineering program, Rabbi Panken is also an instrument rated pilot and sailor, and lives with his wife and two children in the New York area.
Education
- Ordained, HUC-JIR (New York) (1991)
- Ph.D., New York University (2003)
Recent Academic Papers, Books, Conferences and Publications
- The Rhetoric of Innovation: Self Conscious Legal Change in Rabbinic Literature (Lanham, MD: University Press of America,
2005)
- "Hi-Tech for a Higher Authority," Interfaces 33:3, May-June, 2003.
- "Barishonah: A Preliminary Typology of Self-Conscious Change in Rabbinic Literature" presented at the Association for Jewish
Studies Conference, December, 2002 in Los Angeles, CA.
- We Can Do Better published in UAHC Education Department's Torah at the Center, December, 2002.
- "The Future of Religious Leadership," presented at the Academic Convocation in honor of the Inauguration of Dr. Heidi Hadsell,
President, Hartford Seminary, September, 2001.
- Co-Chair and Convener: The Modern Study of the Halakhah, an Academic Conference held March, 2001, at Hebrew Union College -
Jewish Institute of Religion, New York.
- "Sharpening the Tool of Torah: Thematic Connections in the Aggadah of the Bavli," presented at the Association of Jewish Studies
Conference, December, 1998 in Boston, MA.
- "Shall we Counsel Germ Cell Gene Therapy?" in Eugene B. Borowitz, editor, Reform Jewish Ethics and the Halakhah (New Jersey:
Behrman House, 1995).
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