Welcome to the online version of the RRC's Guide to Experts. To find an expert, please click on the links below.
If you do not find an expert in your area of interest, please contact the College's communications staff at 215.576.0800, ext. 307. The staff is available to help you obtain information from and interviews with RRC faculty experts.

Experts:

Barbara E. Breitman, MSW, LCSW, adjunct instructor, director of training for Spiritual Direction Program 

David Brodsky, Ph.D., assistant professor, co-chair, Department of Rabbinic Civilization

Rabbi Dan Ehrenkrantz, RRC president, Aaron and Marjorie Ziegelman Presidential Professor

Rabbi Dayle A. Friedman, director, Hiddur: The Center for Aging and Judaism

Reena Sigman Friedman, Ph.D., associate professor of modern Jewish history

S. Tamar Kamionkowski, Ph.D., vice president and dean of academic affairs, associate professor of Bible

Lori Lefkovitz, Ph.D., director of Kolot: The Center for Women's and Gender Studies,  Sadie Gottesman and Arlene Gottesman Reff Professor of Gender and Judaism

David Teutsch, Ph.D., director, Center for Jewish Ethics, The Louis and Myra Wiener Professor of Contemporary Jewish Civilization Chair, Department of Contemporary Jewish Civilization

Rabbi Deborah Waxman, vice president for governance, adjunct instructor

Barbara E. Breitman, MSW, LCSW

Adjunct instructor, director of training for Spiritual Direction Program
E-mail addresses: Bahirachava@aol.com

Areas of expertise: Jewish spiritual direction, Jewish pastoral counseling, psychology and religion, spiritual and Jewish dimensions of psychotherapy. 

David Brodsky, Ph.D.

Assistant professor, co-chair, Department of Rabbinic Civilization
Telephone: 215-576-0800, ext. 137
E-mail addresses: dbrodsky@rrc.edu

Areas of expertise: Rabbinic Literature, Talmud, Midrash and Gender in Rabbinic Literature.

Rabbi Dan Ehrenkrantz

RRC president, Aaron and Marjorie Ziegelman Presidential Professor
Telephone: 215-576-0800, ext. 129
E-mail addresses: dehrenkrantz@rrc.edu

Areas of expertise: leadership, role of the rabbi, Reconstructionist Judaism, congregational dynamics, family education, Jewish spirtuality, Jewish community, rabbinical education, Jewish denominationalism, biblical narrative.

Rabbi Dayle A. Friedman

Director, Hiddur: The Center for Aging and Judaism
Telephone: 215-576-0800, ext. 256
E-mail: dfriedman@rrc.edu; dayle@ravdalia.net

Areas of expertise: aging, family caregiving, pastoral care, chaplaincy, Jewish healing, spiritual care, medical ethics and aging, and intergenerational relationships.

Reena Sigman Friedman, Ph.D.

Associate professor of modern Jewish history
Telephone: 215-576-0800, ext. 251
E-mail address: friedm6@aol.com

Areas of expertise: modern Jewish history, American Jewish history, and Jewish women's history (modern period).

S. Tamar Kamionkowski, Ph.D.

Vice president and dean of academic affairs, associate professor of Bible
Telephone: 215-576-0800, ext. 138
E-mail address: tkamionk@rrc.edu

Areas of expertise: Hebrew Bible, feminist approaches to biblical studies, Jewish biblical theology, Ten Commandments, biblical origins of Jewish holidays, Mesopotamian mythology, prophetic literature, Hebrew Bible and pedagogy, rabbinical school education, rabbinical school curriculum. 

Lori Lefkovitz, Ph.D.

Director of Kolot: The Center for Women's and Gender Studies,  Sadie Gottesman and Arlene Gottesman Reff Professor of Gender and Judaism
Telephone: 215-576-0800, ext. 147
E-mail address: llefkovitz@rrc.edu

Areas of expertise: Gender and Judaism, biblical narrative, modern and contemporary Jewish literature, Jewish feminism.

David Teutsch, Ph.D.

Director, Center for Jewish Ethics, The Louis and Myra Wiener Professor of
Contemporary Jewish Civilization Chair, Department of Contemporary Jewish
Civilization
Telephone: 215-576-0800, ext. 253
E-mail address: dteutsch@rrc.edu

Areas of expertise: Jewish ethics, including: bioethics, speech and internet ethics, family and sexual ethics, organizational and business ethics, clergy ethics, contemporary American Jewish demography, organizations and policy Jewish liturgy, and role of the rabbi.

Rabbi Deborah Waxman

Vice president for governance and instructor
Telephone: 215-576-0800, ext. 113
E-mail address: dwaxman@rrc.edu

Areas of expertise: American Jewish history, 20th century American Jewish life, and post-war Jewish experience.