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Dr. Bill Arnold (C ’85) and Dr. Bryan Beyer (C ’85) co-edited a book Readings from the Ancient Near East, which was published by Baker Book House (2002).

Dr. Isa Aron, Professor of Education, HUC-JIR/LA and Founding Director of the Experiment in Congregational Education, wrote the book The Self-Renewing Congregation, which was published by Jewish Lights Publishing (2002).

Rabbi Carole B. Balin, Associate Professor of Jewish History, HUC-JIR/NY, was the consulting editor for the book, The Atlas of Great Jewish Communities: A Voyage Through History by Sondra Leiman, which was published by UAHC Press.

Dr. Avraham Biran, Director of the Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology, HUC-JIR/Jerusalem, and Rachel Ben-Dov, Archaeologist, Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology/ Skirball Center for Biblical and Archaeological Research, HUC-JIR/Jerusalem, wrote the book DAN II, Chronicle of the Excavations and the Late Bronze Age “Mycenaean” Tomb (Annual of the Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology, HUC-JIR).

Rabbi Jack H. Bloom’s book The Rabbi as Symbolic Exemplar was published by Hawthorne Press (2002).

Rabbi Judith Bluestein (C ’84 and graduate student, HUC-JIR/Cincinnati) will teach a Spring course entitled “Introduction to Judaism” at Northern Kentucky University, which is a Jewish Chautauqua Society endowed lectureship.

Dr. Eugene B. Borowitz, Sigmund Falk Distinguished Professor of Education and Jewish Religious Thought, HUC-JIR/New York, was honored with the publication of a JPS Scholar of Distinction volume, Studies in the Meaning of Judaism, which presents 33 of his essays.

Dr. Michael Chernick, Arthur-Dora-Morton Deutsch Professor of Jewish Jurisprudence and Social Justice and Professor of Rabbinics, HUC-JIR/NY, wrote “‘Who Pays?’ The Talmudic Approach to Filial Responsibility” which was published in That You May Live Long: Caring for Our Aging Parents, Caring for Ourselves, edited by Rabbi Richard F. Address (C ’72; D.Min., NY ’99) and Rabbi Hara E. Person (NY ’98) (UAHC Press). He lectured on “Who Pays? Filial Responsibility as an Example of Jewish Law and Ethics” at Florida Atlantic University in January as part of HUC-JIR/FAU’s Great Scholars Series.

Dr. Jonathan Cohen, Assistant Professor of Talmud and Halakhah, HUC-JIR/Cincinnati, lectured on “Developments in Jewish Welfare Law, and the Duty to Support the Poor” at Florida Atlantic University in March, as part of HUC-JIR/FAU’s Great Scholars Series.

Dr. Martin A. Cohen, Professor of Jewish History, HUC-JIR/NY, wrote The Canonization of a Myth: Portugal’s “Jewish Problem” and the Assembly of Tomar (1629), which was published by HUC Press.

Dr. Norman J. Cohen, Provost, HUC-JIR, lectured on “The Bible Through the Prism of Midrash: What We Can Learn from Moses as Jews and Human Beings” at Florida Atlantic University in January; he also lectured there on “Making the Bible Come Alive: Cain and Abel and Our Struggle With Good and Evil” as part of HUC-JIR/FAU’s Great Scholars Series.

Rabbi David Ellenson, President, HUC-JIR, gave the 2nd Annual Bangel Lecture on American Judaism, entitled “Jewish Values and Identity in America: Retrospective and Prospective,” at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia, in October. Also during this month, he was inaugurated as the 8th President of the College-Institute in Cincinnati, Ohio, and was honored by being named the first occupant of the Gus Waterman Herrman Presidential Chair. In November, he served as a Scholar-in-Residence at The Temple-Tifereth Israel in Cleveland, Ohio, and spoke on the following topics: "Judaism Resurgent: A Discussion of Where the Jewish Community has Developed Over the Past Century and Where We May be Headed," "The Impact of Feminism on Jewish Thought," and "Land and Peace in Israel: A Jewish Legal Response." He both chaired a panel and served as a respondent for a session on Eliezer Berkovits at the Association for Jewish Studies’ Annual Conference in Los Angeles, California, in December. He spoke at the Friends of Raddock Eminent Scholar Chair event at Florida Atlantic University on “Directions in American Judaism” in January. He also gave a public lecture at FAU on “Judaism Resurgent? American Jewish Values and Identity Today” and, as part of the HUC-JIR/FAU Great Scholars Series, lectured on “The Infertility Dilemma, Technologies and Jewish Tradition: A Look at the Sources.” Additionally in January, he co-taught with Rabbi Jacqueline Koch Ellenson (N ’83) the session entitled "Women Who Came Before Us, Women Who Inspired Us" at the Women’s Reform Network Conference in London, England; presented "Two Models of Reform Judaism: Isaac Mayer Wise and David Einhorn, and Their Meaning for Reform Judaism Today" at Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in New York; and presented with Dr. Eugene Borowitz, Sigmund Falk Distinguished Professor of Education and Jewish Religious thought, HUC-JIR/NY, at the Symposium program at HUC-JIR/NY on "Jewish Thought: Current Trends." Beginning in January as part of a four-session course, he started giving public lectures at the Manhattan JCC on Jewish thinkers articulating a viable Jewish faith in a modern western context. The first session in January centered on Mordecai Kaplan and Abraham Joshua Heschel; the second session in February centered on Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig. Also in February, he gave the Dr. Samuel Atlas Memorial Lecture entitled, “‘To Keep Evil to a Minimum’: Modern European Orthodox Responses to Conversion and Intermarriage” at HUC-JIR/NY; served as a Scholar-in-Residence at Lakeside Congregation for Reform Judaism in Highland Park, Illinois, speaking on the topics: "One Rabbi's Approach to Judaism" and "Two Views of American Judaism: Isaac Mayer Wise and David Einhorn;" addressed the New York Board of Rabbis on "Two Texts on the Posek and the Nature of Jewish Law: Rabbi Moshe Feinstein and Rabbi Hayyim David Halevi;" led a study session with the clergy track, delivered the Shabbat morning sermon for the full convention, and led a Torah study at the NFTY Convention in Washington, D.C.; and addressed the PARDeS program participants at Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles, California, on the theme of the conference: "Teaching Values & Ethics in Our Day Schools." Rabbi Ellenson, Rabbi Helen Bar Yaacov (NY ‘02), and Gershom Sizomu (visiting student, Fall 2001) were featured in the ABC-TV documentary The Highest Commandment.

Among his many articles, “Parallel Worlds: Wissenschaft and Pesaq in the Seridei Esh” was published in History and Literature: New Readings of Jewish Texts in Honor of Arnold J. Band, No. 334, ed. by William Cutter, Professor of Education and Hebrew Language and Literature, HUC-JIR/LA, and David C. Jacobson (Brown Judaic Studies, 2002); “Imagine a Jewish World Without Denominations” was published in the Forward (November 1, 2002); “Solidarity Breeds Responsibility” was published in Contact (Winter 2003); and “The Amalek Decision” was published in The Jerusalem Report (March 24, 2003).

Vicki Reikes Fox (MAJE ’78) wrote the stories which accompany the photographs in the book Shalom Y’all: Images of Jewish Life in the American South (Algonquin, 2002).

Rabbi Ruth Gais, Director, New York Kollel and Community Outreach, wrote a review on a book by Professor Richard Kalmin, which was published in the CCAR Journal.

Dr. Alfred Gottschalk, Chancellor Emeritus of HUC-JIR and the John and Marianne Slade Professor of Jewish Intellectual History, was awarded the State of Israel Bonds Elie Wiesel Holocaust Remembrance Award for his dedication to the cause of Holocaust Remembrance education. Dr. Gottschalk edited Israel Beyond Tears and Philanthropy with Allon Gal (HUC Press, 2000). His article “Reform Judaism in the New Millennium” was published in Contemporary Debates in Reform Judaism, edited by Dana Kaplan; “The Uniqueness of the Holocaust” was published in Hebrew in Gesher (Winter 2001); and “An Appreciation of Professor Ellis Rivkin – A Personal Note” in Historiographic Methods by Ellis Rivkin (Verlag A. Gotert, 2002).

Dr. Lisa Grant, Assistant Professor of Jewish Education, HUC-JIR/NY, and Dr. Diane Tickton Schuster, Director of the Institute for Teaching Jewish Adults, HUC-JIR/LA, gave a lecture based on their book Meaning-Making at the Melton Mini-Schools: Intersections in Adult Jewish Learning at the AJS Annual Conference in December; their chapter “Teaching Jewish Adults” will be published in the new Jewish Teachers Handbook, edited by Nachama Skolnick Moscowitz (MAHE ’77) (A.R.E. Publishers, 2003). Dr. Grant was a member of the faculty and part of the planning group for a trip to Israel organized by HUC-JIR/NY, the New York Board of Jewish Education, and the Lokey Academy of Jewish Studies at the Leo Baeck School in Haifa. Twenty-four principals and teachers from Reform and Conservative Congregational Schools in the greater New York area spent 10 days at a study seminar in Israel in February; Rabbi Naamah Kelman, Director of Educational Initiatives, HUC-JIR/Jerusalem, taught during the group’s visit to Jerusalem.

Dr. Alyssa Gray, Assistant Professor of Codes and Responsa Literature, HUC-JIR/NY, presented a paper entitled “Martyrdom and Identity in the Yerushalmi” at the American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting; she presented a paper entitled “Distance from the Emperor is Next to Godliness: Redaction and Meaning in B. A.Z. 10a-11a” at the Creation and Composition: The Contribution of the Bavli Redactors (Stammaim) to the Aggadah Conference at New York University; she lectured on “Uncovering Recurring Themes in TB Avodah Zarah” at the AJS Annual Conference in December; she lectured on “Poverty, Privilege and Justice: Major Themes in the Jewish Law of Tzedakah” at Florida Atlantic University in February, as part of HUC-JIR/FAU’s Great Scholars Series. The article she wrote with Bernard Jackson, Berachyahu Lifshitz, and Daniel B. Sinclair, entitled “Halacha and Law” was published in the Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies.

Dr. Lawrence A. Hoffman was named the Barbara and Stephen Friedman Professor of Liturgy, Worship and Ritual, HUC-JIR/NY, at Founders’ Day Ceremonies in New York in March. He wrote a unit on "Jewish Liturgy and Jewish Scholarship: Method and Cosmology,” which was published in the Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies. He edited My People's Prayer Book: Traditional Prayers, Modern Commentaries, Vol. 6, "Tachanun and Concluding Prayers,” which was published by Jewish Lights Publishing, and includes contributions from Drs. David Ellenson, President, HUC-JIR, Alyssa Gray, Assistant Professor of Codes and Responsa Literature, HUC-JIR/NY, Joel M. Hoffman, Lecturer on Hebrew, HUC-JIR/NY, Lawrence A. Hoffman, Barbara and Stephen Friedman Professor of Liturgy, Worship, HUC-JIR/NY, and Lawrence Kushner, Lecturer on Commentaries, HUC-JIR/NY.

Rabbi Ben Hollander, Lecturer on Rabbinics, HUC-JIR/Jerusalem, spoke on “The Election of Israel (Sinai) and Elections in Israel Next Week” at Adath Israel Congregation in Cincinnati in January (the event was co-hosted by HUC-JIR and Isaac M. Wise Temple).

Emmanuel Itapson (graduate student, HUC-JIR/Cincinnati) and Pastor Jeff Greer have created a non-profit corporation, Self-Sustaining Enterprises, that will bring a food processing plant, a boarding school, and a healthcare program to the city of Jos in Itapson’s home country of Nigeria.

Dr. David Kaufman, Associate Professor of Contemporary American Jewish Studies, HUC-JIR/LA, chaired a session entitled “A Renaissance in Jewish Studies in Interwar America? Three Case Studies” at the AJS Annual Conference in December; HUC-JIR lecturers at that session included Dr. Frederic J. Krome, Managing Editor, American Jewish Archives Journal, HUC-JIR/Cincinnati, and Dr. Jonathan Krasner, Professor of American Jewish History, HUC-JIR/Cincinnati.

Rabbi Naamah Kelman, Director of Educational Initiatives, HUC-JIR/Jerusalem, taught at a study seminar in February for which twenty-four principals and teachers from Reform and Conservative Congregational Schools in the greater New York area came to Israel.

Dr. Mark Kligman, Associate Professor of Jewish Musicology, HUC-JIR/New York, led a session on “Releasing the Creative Spark: The Arts and Neo-Hasidism” with Miriyam Glazer and Michael Posnick at Awakening, Yearning and Renewal: A Conference on the Hasidic Roots of Contemporary Jewish Spiritual Expression and Festival of Neo-Hasidic Spirituality at the JCC in Manhattan in March. He spoke on “From West to East: The Diversity of Sephardic Liturgical Music” as part of a lecture series at Florida International University in November.

Cantor Sharon Kohn, Cantor-in-Residence, HUC-JIR/NY, participated in the first ACC and Cantors Assembly joint mission to Israel in November, which included a visit to HUC-JIR/Jerusalem as part of the itinerary for the 50 cantors from the Reform and Conservative Movements.

Dr. Jonathan Krasner, Assistant Professor of American Jewish History, HUC-JIR/Cincinnati, lectured on “Images of ‘New Jews’ in an Old/New Land: An Analysis of Interwar Zionist Textbooks” at the AJS Annual Conference in December.

Dr. Leonard S. Kravitz, Professor of Midrash and Homiletics, HUC-JIR/New York, and Dr. Kerry M. Olitzky (rabbinical ordination, C ’81 and DHL, C ’85) edited and translated Mishlei: A Modern Commentary on Proverbs, which was published by UAHC Press.

Dr. Frederic Krome, Managing Editor, American Jewish Archives Journal, HUC-JIR/Cincinnati, wrote "Correspondence between Martin Buber, Hans Kohn, Abraham Joshua Heschel and Adolph Oko, 1939-44," which was published in Jewish Culture & History, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Summer 2002); he lectured on “Between the Diaspora and Zion: Cecil Roth at the Menorah Summer School of 1930” at the AJS Annual Conference in December.

Burton Lehman, Chair, HUC-JIR Board of Governors, has been named Senior Advisor and General Counsel to Tishman Speyer Properties in Manhattan.

Dr. Yosi Leshem, Lecturer on Bible, HUC-JIR/Jerusalem, wrote an article “Beit Mikra,” which was published in Likshor kesher – to form a conspiracy, No. 168 (Jerusalem 2001).

Dr. Adriane Leveen, Assistant Professor of Bible, HUC-JIR/LA, lectured on “Reading the Seams: Inner Biblical Dialogue in the Book of Numbers” at the AJS Annual Conference in December.

Rabbi Robert N. Levine (NY ’77) wrote a book There Is No Messiah…and You’re It: The Stunning Transformation of Judaism’s Most Provocative Idea, which was published by Jewish Lights Publishing (2003).

Paul Liptz (Lecturer on Israel Studies, HUC-JIR/Jerusalem) was the Joseph I. and Sylvia Spector Scholar at the Interfaith Clergy Institute at Congregation B’nai Israel of Bridgeport, CT.

Judy Lucas, Founding Curator of the Skirball Museum, Cincinnati, was honored at a reception at HUC-JIR for her 20 years of distinguished service to the museum.

Dr. Jerome A. Lund, Senior Research Scholar, Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon, HUC-JIR/Cincinnati, and Prof. Bezalel Porten wrote Aramaic Documents from Egypt: A Key-Word-in-Context Concordance, which was published by Eisenbrauns. Also part of the Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, A Dictionary of Jewish Palestinian Aramaic of the Byzantine Period and A Dictionary of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic of the Talmudic and Geonic Periods by Michael Sokoloff, were published by Bar Ilan University Press and The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Rabbi Yehoram Mazor, Lecturer on Jewish Liturgy, Rabbi David Ariel-Joel (J ’94), and Rabbi Maya Leibovich (J ’93) edited Barukh She’asani Isha?, [Blessed for Creating Me a Woman?] and Milchemet Gog Umagog, [The War Before the Messianic Era], which were published by Yediot Acharonot Publishers.

Dr. Stanley Nash, Professor of Hebrew Literature, HUC-JIR/NY, wrote an entry on Ahron Megged for the Encyclopedia of Literature of the Holocaust, edited by S. Lilliam Kremer which was published by Routledge Press (2002); he wrote an article “Itzik Manger, Foigelman and the Problem of the Antihero,” which was published in Hebrew Studies (2002).

Rabbi Kerry M. Olitzky (C ’81, D.H.L. ’85), with Joan Peterson Littman, wrote a book entitled Making a Successful Jewish Interfaith Marriage, which was published by Jewish Lights Publishing.

David Palmer (graduate student and former teaching assistant, HUC-JIR/Cincinnati) was honored by the Greater Cincinnati Consortium of Colleges and Universities at their “Celebration of Teaching” lunch program at Xavier University.

Rabbi Aaron Panken, Dean, HUC-JIR/NY, lectured on “Self-Conscious Halakhic Change in Rabbinic Literature” at the AJS Annual Conference in December.

Dr. Bruce A. Phillips, Professor of Jewish Communal Service, HUC-JIR/LA, lectured on “Los Angeles Jews: Still the Great Exception?” at the AJS Annual Conference in December.

Dr. Ellis Rivkin, Professor Emeritus of Jewish History, HUC-JIR/Cincinnati, wrote the book The Unity Principal: The Shaping of Jewish History, which was published by Behrman House.

Rabbi Harold Robinson (C ’74 and father of Yari Robinson, 5th year rabbinical student, HUC-JIR/Cincinnati), gave the invocation at the Columbia Shuttle memorial service in Houston, TX and was invited to speak about his experience on Larry King Live.

Jean Bloch Rosensaft, Senior National Director of Public Affairs and Institutional Planning, HUC-JIR, presented a lecture on the Bergen-Belsen Displaced Persons Camp at an international scholars conference guiding the development of the Bergen-Belsen Memorial Museum in Germany in November. In January, she lectured on the role of the arts and museums in seminary education at a Luce Foundation-sponsored conference at the American Bible Society, where she was also invited to lecture on Yaacov Agam's stained glass windows at a symposium on stained glass.

Dr. Adam Rubin, Assistant Professor of Jewish History, HUC-JIR/LA, lectured on “To Build and Be Rebuilt by Galut: Labor Zionism and the Reinvention of Jewish Tradition” at the AJS Annual Conference in December.

Rabbi Norbert Samuelson (C ’62) wrote the following articles: “Revenge and Forgiveness in Jewish Virtue Ethics,” which was published in Lesarten des jüdisch-christlichen Dialogues: Festschrift zum 70. Geburtstag von Clemens Thoma, edited by Silvia Käppeli (Peter Lang, 2003); “Creation and the Symbiosis of Science and Judaism,” which was published in B'or Ha'Torah 13E: Proceedings of the Third Miami International Conference on Torah and Science Part Two: Physics and Math, Humanities, Vol. 13 (2002); “Maimonidean Scholarship at the End of the Century,” which was published in The Journal of the Association of Jewish Studies Review, Vol. 26, No. 1 (April 2002); “Death and Revival of Jewish Philosophy,” in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Vol. 70, No. 1 (March 2002); “Creation and the Symbiosis of Science and Judaism” in Zygon, Vol. 37, No. 1 (March, 2002). His book, Revelation and the God of Israel, was published by Cambridge University Press (2002).

Dr. Richard S. Sarason, Professor of Rabbinical Literature and Thought, HUC-JIR/Cincinnati, wrote an article “Communal Prayer at Qumran and Among the Rabbis: Certainties and Uncertainties,” which will be published in the book Liturgical Perspectives: Prayer and Poetry in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, 19-23 January, 2000, edited by Esther G. Chazon, Leiden (E.J. Brill, 2003); he was the Barnett International Scholar at Brite Divinity School in Fort Worth, TX in May 2002 where he taught a two-week course on “The Early Roots of Jewish and Christian Prayer and Liturgy” and gave a public lecture on “Talmud Torah and the Study of Judaism: Diverse Settings of Jewish Learning;” he served as scholar-in-residence for the Jewish-Catholic Dialogue Seminar on Jewish and Christian Worship in Albuquerque, NM and at the SWAR Kallah of the CCAR.

Sarah Schecter, a part-time employee of the Klau Library, HUC-JIR/Cincinnati (and a senior at the Regional Institute for Torah and Secular Studies), has been named a National Merit Semifinalist.

Dr. Diane Tickton Schuster, Director of the Institute for Teaching Jewish Adults, HUC-JIR/LA, and Dr. Lisa D. Grant, Assistant Professor of Jewish Education, HUC-JIR/NY, wrote the chapter “Teaching Jewish Adults” which will be published in the new Jewish Teachers Handbook, edited by Nachama Skolnick Moscowitz (MAHE ’77) (A.R.E. Publishers, 2003). They gave a lecture based on their book Meaning-Making at the Melton Mini-Schools: Intersections in Adult Jewish Learning at the AJS Annual Conference in December. Dr. Schuster’s article, “Placing Adult Jewish Learning at the Center: Challenges Facing Renaissance and Renewal,” will be published in Agenda: Jewish Education (JESNA, Winter 2003).

Dr. David Sperling, Professor of Bible, HUC-JIR/NY, was the Scholar-in-Residence at the UAHC Pacific Southwest Council Regional Biennial in Costa Mesa, CA in February; he was invited to be the Bronfman Distinguished Visiting Professor of Judaic Studies at The College of William and Mary for 2003-4.

Dr. Mark Washofsky, Professor of Rabbinics, HUC-JIR/Cincinnati, lectured on “Liberal Judaism and Halakhah: Theology and Practice” at Florida Atlantic University in February, as part of HUC-JIR/FAU’s Great Scholars Series.

Stephanie Waxman, Visiting Lecturer on Communication, HUC-JIR/LA, wrote the following recent articles: “The Scent of Tamarisk” which was published in OREGON EAST, Vol. XXXIII (2002); “Tuesday Night at the Chestnut Street Library,” which was published in MERIDIAN, Issue 10 (Fall/Winter 2002); “Perfection,” which will be published in The Bitter Oleander Press (Spring 2003); and “The Gift,” which will be published in RE:AL, Issue 28 (Spring 2003).

Dr. Racelle Weiman, Director, The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education, HUC-JIR/Cincinnati, wrote “Ending the Bitterness” which was published in Christianity, edited by P. McGarry (Veritas Publications); her article “Human rights and dignity as essential values in Judaism” was published in Religions in Dialogue: From Theocracy to Democracy, edited by A. Race and I. Chafer (Ashgate Publishing).

Rabbi Samuel R. Weinstein (C ’82) was honored for his 10 years as Senior Rabbi at The Temple – Congregation Shomer Emunim in Sylvania, OH in August 2002 with a special service and dinner; the cantor of the congregation, Diane Yomtov (NY ’00), as well as former cantors of the congregation, Judy Seplowin (NY ’95) and Ida Rae Cahana (NY ’93), participated in the celebratory service.

Dr. David Weisberg, Professor of Bible and Semitic Languages, HUC-JIR/Cincinnati, spoke at the University of Nanjing under the sponsorship of The Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University Center for International Studies, as part of a lecture tour of China.

Dr. Steven F. Windmueller, Director of the School of Jewish Communal Service, HUC-JIR/LA, lectured on “The Mariachi-Klezmer Connection: Examining Jewish Identity through the Lens of Latino-Jewish Relations in Los Angeles” at the AJS Annual Conference in December; he was the Keynote Speaker at the Santa Barbara Jewish Federation Major Gifts Event in February; he lectured at the Hillel Spitzer Forum in Baltimore in February; he will give a three-part morning lecture series on Israel and American Jewry at Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills in March; he will give lectures at the New York Federation of Northeastern New York, Board Retreat in Albany and at the Social Justice Shabbat, Temple Beth Israel in Pomona, CA in April.

Dr. Wendy Zierler, Assistant Professor of Modern Jewish Literature and Feminist Studies, HUC-JIR/NY, wrote an article “The Rabbi’s Daughter In and Out of the Kitchen: Feminist Literary Negotiations,” which was published in Nashim, No. 5 (2002); she wrote entries on Anda Pinkerfeld Amir and Caryl Phillips for the Encyclopedia of Literature of the Holocaust, edited by S. Lilliam Kremer, which was published by Routledge Press (2002). She lectured on “Memory and Morality: The Ethical Imperative To Remember in Jewish Literature” at Florida Atlantic University in February, as part of HUC-JIR/FAU’s Great Scholars Series.