Adjunct Instructor
215-576-0800

Judd Kruger Levingston, Ph.D., received his bachelor's degree from Harvard University; a certificate in Chinese Studies from Beijing University, the People's Republic of China; and master's and doctorate degrees and rabbinic ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He has taught in secular independent schools in western Massachusetts, Baltimore and New York.  Most recently, he served as head of the upper school at Chestnut Hill Academy in Philadelphia.

In Jewish education, Levingston has served as principal of the Ivry Prozdor program of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, as well as principal of the Solomon Schechter High School of New York. In addition, he has taught in adult education programs and has been a member of the education committees at Congregation B'nai Jeshurun in New York and at the Germantown Jewish Centre in Philadelphia.  He also served on the advisory board of the American Jewish World Service. Having published several articles on moral education and the moral lives of Jewish adolescents, Levingston is especially interested in the ways in which Jewish texts can be taught in a variety of settings to raise moral issues and to foster Jewish literacy.