Moshe Sokol, Ph.D.

Professor, Jewish Philosophy

Moshe Sokol

Moshe Sokol, professor of Jewish philosophy, also serves as dean of the Lander College for Men.  He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Thyssen Foundation Research Fellow, and received semikha from the Israel Torah Research Institute (ITRI) in Jerusalem.  He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, New York University, and Touro College graduate and undergraduate schools.  Widely recognized in the fields of Jewish philosophy and ethics, Dean Sokol has written or edited four books and published some two dozen articles on ethics and Jewish Studies in major British, American and Israeli journals, and lectured at conferences around the world.