Director, Community Organization Program and Associate Professor of Jewish Communal Organization
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Ernest Kahn, Ph.D., holds a B.S.S. degree from City College of New York, an M.S.W. from the University of Chicago and a doctorate from the University of Maryland. He holds an honorary D.H.L. degree in Hebrew literature from Gratz College. He did graduate work in Jewish studies at The Jewish Theological Seminary and Spertus College of Jewish Studies. He served as associate professor and assistant dean of the School of Social Work and Community Planning of the University of Maryland.

Kahn has served as director of community planning, associate executive vice president and acting executive vice president of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia. He has held faculty appointments at Temple University School of Social Administration, the Professional Education Institute of the Council of Jewish Federations and the Baltimore Hebrew College. He served as interim president of Gratz College and is past president of the Jewish Communal Service Association of North America.

He has served as consultant to the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and the Department of Labor, and as a member of the advisory committee for the U.S./Israel Intergovernmental Memorandum of Understanding. He has published in professional journals and has lectured at universities in the United States, Europe and Israel. Kahn currently serves on the boards and executive committees of several local social service agencies and a day school. Nationally, he is a member of the Committee on Human Services and Social Policy of the Committee on Public Policy and Advocacy.