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 Dr. Dalia Marx Appointed Assistant Professor of Liturgy and Midrash at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Dr. Dalia Marx has been appointed Assistant Professor of Liturgy and Midrash at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) in Jerusalem, as of July 1, 2008. In announcing this appointment, Rabbi David Ellenson, HUC-JIR President, noted, "As a gifted scholar and rabbinical alumnus of the College-Institute, Dr. Marx is a vital member of our Jerusalem campus"s faculty. Her expertise in rabbinic literature, linguistics, and women and gender studies strengthens our academic programs, and she holds as esteemed role as a teacher and mentor to our Israeli rabbinical and education students, and our Year-In-Israel rabbinical, cantorial and education students from North America, Germany, and England." Dr. Marx received her Ph.D., M.A., and B.A. at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where her doctoral dissertation on "The Early Morning Ritual in Jewish Liturgy: Textual, Historical, and Theological Discussion in Birkhot Hashakhar (The Morning Blessings) and an Examination of Their Performative Aspects," further developed her M.A. thesis on the development of Jewish morning prayers up to the 13th century, examining the literary, typologic, and halakhic aspects of this liturgical rubric. She received the M.A.H.L. and rabbinical ordination at HUC-JIR in Cincinnati in 2003. In 2007-2008, she taught at Potsdam University as a DAAD Guest Lecturer and at Abraham Geiger College in Berlin, where she had previously taught in 2005. Since 2004, she has taught liturgy at Hebrew University. A member of the faculty of HUC-JIR in Jerusalem since 2003, Dr. Marx teaches liturgy courses for the Israeli rabbinical program and for the Year-In-Israel Program, where she also serves as an academic advisor and facilitator of student reflection groups. She serves on the Steering Committee and Admission Committee for both the Israeli Rabbinical and Year-In-Israel programs. As a rabbi, Dr. Marx has taught for the Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism, counseled its pre-school and kindergarten staff, and directed prayer at its summer camps; served the Reform congregation of Barcelona, Spain, and the school rabbi of Tali Bait VaGan, the Progressive Jewish primary school in Jerusalem; and edited the Israeli Reform Youth prayerbook. She was a member of Kibbutz Lotan, where she coordinated the kibbutz"s Absorption Committee, served as a Hebrew teacher in its ulpan, and coordinated its Culture Committee, while also managing the kitchen and restaurant and working in its dairy branch. She fulfilled her Israeli military service in a Nahal unit at Kibbutz Lotan, and previously was a youth counselor in the Reform Scouts Movement. Her articles have appeared in numerous scholarly publications, including Leo Baeck: Philosophical and Rabbinical Approaches, Hebrew Union College Annual and Golem: Europaeiisch Juedisches Magazin, among many others. Her academic lectures have been presented at international conferences in Israel and Berlin. She has participated in research groups on Jewish and Christian Liturgies (2006 to present), the Van Leer International Interdisciplinary Research Group on the Reform Movement (2006-2008), and Gender and Judaism (Berlin 2007 to the present). Dr. Marx"s other activities have included coordination of the Amitei Emet Project to foster dialogue between the different denominations of Israeli Judaism; participation in a co-existence Palestinian-Jewish women"s group from the Isawiah village in East Jerusalem and French Hill in West Jerusalem; membership in the Israeli Council of Reform Rabbis (MaRaM) and serving occasionally as a Dayyanit (judge) at the Israeli Reform Conversion Beit-Din (court); coordination of a women"s Rosh Hodesh group in Jerusalem; contributor to the Commentary on Reform Zionism; participant in a dialogue group of women rabbis and rabbinical students of the Reform and Conservative Movements in Israel; coordination of monthly Shabbat services and dinners for young Jews in Berlin; and coordination of the creation of a new curriculum for the rabbinical program at Abraham Geiger College in Berlin. Dr. Marx has created modern liturgies and midrash, including a prayer for peace written before the disengagement process in 2005, a confessional prayer for the High Holy days (commissioned by the Israeli Religious Center), a prayer for Tu B"Shevat, and two modern midrashim to be published in a modern feminist midrashim book, edited by Orthodox women. She has served as a writer and editor for Israeli Reform Movement publications: the MaRaM Passover Haggadah; the Prayer and Contemplation Book for Israeli Independence Day; the new edition of the Progressive prayer book for children and youth, entitled Hahavaya SheBaLev; a volume of prayers, rituals, and studies on immersion and the healing power of water, entitled Water and Immersion; and weekly Torah portion commentaries for the TeLeM website. Founded in 1875, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion is the nation's oldest institution of higher Jewish education and the academic, spiritual, and professional leadership development center of Reform Judaism. HUC-JIR educates men and women for service to American and world Jewry as rabbis, cantors, educators, and communal service professionals, and offers graduate and post-graduate programs to scholars of all faiths. With centers of learning in Cincinnati, Jerusalem, Los Angeles, and New York, HUC-JIR's scholarly resources comprise renowned library and museum collections, the American Jewish Archives, biblical archaeology excavations, research institutes and centers, and academic publications. HUC-JIR invites the community to an array of cultural and educational programs which illuminate Jewish history, identity, and contemporary creativity and which foster interfaith and multiethnic understanding. Visit us at www.huc.edu |
