Contributors
- Contributors
SUZANNE BROOKS is Senior Doctoral Fellow and Initiatives Coordinator at the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration, Yeshiva University. She is a Ph.D. candidate, completing her dissertation on the fostering and assessment of educator dispositions in students enrolled in face-to-face and asynchronous online courses. Suzanne has over twenty-five years of teaching experience in modern orthodox and Haredi day schools and currently conducts program improvement evaluations. Her research interests include areas related to psycho-social-emotional and spiritual development and well-being.
MENACHEM KEREN-KRATZ holds a DMD (The Hebrew University, 1985). He completed a Ph.D. in Yiddish literature (Summa cum Laude, Bar-Ilan University, 2009) and an additional Ph.D. in Jewish history (Tel-Aviv University, 2013). His most recently published book is a biography of the Satmar Rebbe titled The Zealot: Satmar Rebbe—Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum (Zalman Shazar Center, 2020, in Hebrew).
MOSHE KRAKOWSKI is an Associate Professor at the Azrieli Graduate School for Jewish Education and Administration at Yeshiva University and directs Azrieli’s Master’s program in Jewish education. He studies American Haredi education and culture, focusing on the relationship between communal worldview, identity, and education. He also works on curriculum, cognition, and inquiry learning in Jewish educational settings.
REUVEN KRUGER is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Jewish Philosophy at Bar Ilan University. He previously directed “Aseh Lecha Rav,” a training program for community rabbis in Israel, and recently founded the Emek Hashaveh Dialogue Center, an interdisciplinary center for conflict resolution. His research interests include the Jewish corpus of Erich Neumann, depth psychology, neo-Hasidism, spiritual growth in the second half of life, and gender studies from a Jewish perspective.
TZVI LUBOSHITZ is a Ph.D. Student at the Department of Comparative Religion at The Hebrew University. His dissertation focuses on the Judeo-Christian dialog in the writing of R. Moshe David Valle—a prominent eighteen-century Italian Kabbalist and a colleague of Moshe Chayim Luzzato (Ramhal).
ELANA RIBACK RAND is a Ph.D. candidate at the Azrieli Graduate School for Jewish Education and Administration. She studies school connectedness, teacher motivation, and dynamics among cultural subgroups within the Orthodox Jewish community. She holds Bachelor and Master degrees from Columbia University.
STEPHEN J. WHITFIELD (now Emeritus) held the Max Richter Chair in American Civilization at Brandeis University. He is the author, most recently, of Learning on the Left: Political Profiles of Brandeis University (2020). Previous publications include eight books on twentieth-century American history and American Jewish history. As a Fulbright visiting professor, Whitfield taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at the Catholic University of Leuven and Louvain-la-Neuve in Belgium. He has also taught as a visiting professor at the Sorbonne and at the University of Munich.
