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 Steven F. Windmueller, Ph.D Dean, Los Angeles Campus; Rabbi Alfred Gottschalk Chair in Jewish Communal Service 
Dr. Steven Windmueller was appointed Dean of the Los Angeles campus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in August of 2006 by Rabbi David Ellenson, President of the College-Institute. In March of 2009, Dr. Ellenson named Dean Windmueller to the Gottschalk Chair in Jewish Communal Studies.Steven Windmueller has held a number of prominent positions within the Jewish community over the course of a thirty year professional career. Between 1995-2006, he served as Director of the College's School of Jewish Communal Service. Prior to coming to HUC, he served for ten years as the Executive Director of the Community Relations Committee of the Jewish Federation of Los Angeles. Dr. Windmueller had previously served for twelve years as a federation director in upstate New York. He began his professional career on the staff of the American Jewish Committee. A specialist on political issues and American Jewish affairs, Dr. Windmueller holds a doctorate in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania and has held academic appointments at several major institutions of higher learning. He has appeared on CNN, PBS, NBC, and other nationally syndicated media offering commentaries on Jewish public affairs matters. Over the years his more than thirty articles and monographs have appeared in such publications as the Los Angeles Times, Sh'ma and Moment Magazines, the Jerusalem Letter, and the Journal of Jewish Communal Service. During his professional service, Dr. Windmueller has consulted with government officials and political candidates and has had occasion to represent the Jewish community on various international missions. He has been contributed a number of articles to recent books on Jewish public policy and leadership issues. His Pew-funded research on the major national Jewish community relations agencies appeared in a recent publication, Jewish Polity and American Civil Society: Communal Agencies and Religious Movements in the American Public Square (Roman and Littlefield, 2002). Dr. Windmueller received a grant in 1999 from the John Randolph Haynes Foundation to undertake the first major study of Latino-Jewish relations in Los Angeles. Key elements of this research appear in a new book entitled California Jews. In 2004, he produced a textbook on the practice of Jewish community relations, entitled You Shall Not Stand Idly By, published by the American Jewish Committee. In early 2005, Dr. Windmueller collaborated with Professor Gerald Bubis in producing the first study on the formation of the UJC (United Jewish Communities), entitled Predictability to Chaos?? How American Jewish Leaders Reinvented their National Jewish Communal System At the College, Dr. Windmueller has been engaged in teaching future communal service professionals, writing about issues affecting the Jewish community, and serving as a national consultant to Jewish and non-Jewish institutions. Active in the Jewish community, Dr. Windmueller currently serves on several local boards. He was named a Fellow of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs in 1999. Click here for the Los Angeles campus dean's page Click here for Steven F. Windmueller's bio Areas of Expertise
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