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 Dr. Dvora Weisberg Granted Tenure as Associate Professor of Rabbinic Literature at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Dr. Dvora Weisberg has been granted tenure as Associate Professor of Rabbinic Literature at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) in Los Angeles, as of July 1, 2008. In announcing the promotion, Rabbi David Ellenson, HUC-JIR President, said, "Dr. Weisberg is recognized for her excellence in scholarship, teaching, institutional planning, faculty collegiality, and mentorship of students. She has contributed new understanding through her research into gender issues in rabbinic texts, and has helped transform our Los Angeles campus to an ever more congenial learning community." A member of the HUC-JIR/Los Angeles faculty since 2001, Dr. Weisberg also serves as Director of the Lanier Beit Midrash at the Los Angeles campus. Before coming to HUC-JIR, she taught at the College of William and Mary and the University of Pittsburgh. She received her M.A. (1983) and Ph.D. (1994) in Talmud and Rabbinics from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, where his dissertation explored "Tradition and Transformation: The Appropriation of Festival Law in Vabli Betsa." She received her B.A. in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Brandeis University (1981). Dr. Weisberg is especially interested in gender issues in rabbinic texts. She is currently working on a book on the evolution of levirate marriage in classical Judaism, entitled Between the Living and the Dead: Levirate Marriage and the Family in Ancient Judaism. She contributed the post-Biblical commentary on Lech L'cha, Vayeitzei, Vay'chi, Vayikra, Matot, Mas'ei, and Ki Teitzei in the Women of Reform Judaism's groundbreaking new book, The Torah: A Women's Commentary. Her scholarly articles have appeared in Hebrew Union College Annual, The Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Judaism, The Annual of Rabbinic Judaism: Ancient, Medieval and Modern, Shofar, Review of Biblical Studies, AJS Review, Hebrew Studies, Lilith, and Religious Studies Review, as well as in the Encylopedia Judaica, Agendas for the Study of Midrash in the Twentieth Century, Four Centuries of Jewish Women's Spirituality, and Daughters of the King: Women and the Synagogue. She has presented academic papers at the SBL International Meeting, Himmelstob Symposium on Judaic Studies at Florida Atlantic University, and the Association for Jewish Studies. 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 |
