Our faculty are serious scholars. They’re also deeply invested in their students.
GSJS professors draw on their diverse experiences to engage students in project-based learning that stems from each student’s own questions and interests.
Whether you’re returning to school later in life, balancing graduate school with work and family, or preparing for a PhD, your professors will meet you where you are with individualized attention and support that extends beyond the degree itself.
Alumni who go on to other academic institutions say they've never experienced that kind of mentorship anywhere else.
“GSJS professors are genuine scholars and lovely human beings. I don’t have to compromise on quality or values because they live what they teach. Judaism isn’t just a subject. It’s their life.”
- Ida Plotzker, Jewish History Student
Jewish Studies Graduate Faculty
The faculty here are not just instructors, but colleagues and community builders. Along with publishing widely in the field, they devote many hours to advising students, planning academic events and symposia, and teaching at GSJS and in related Touro programs.
Anne Bayefsky, M.Litt
Alexandra Birch, PhD
Judith Bleich, PhD
Simcha Fishbane, PhD
Dana Fishkin, PhD
Samuel Hoenig, PhD
Zvi Jonathan Kaplan, JD, PhD
Shmuel Klammer, EdD
Sid Leiman, PhD
Moshe Y. Miller, PhD
Moshe Sherman, PhD
Michael A. Shmidman, PhD
Moshe Sokol, PhD
Mervin F. Verbit, PhD
Jeffrey Woolf, PhD
