Commencement program 2016

116 th COMMENCEMENT May 15, 2016 · 7 Iyar 5776

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Education Grounded in Jewish Values

Education Grounded in Jewish Values

Founded in 1895, Gratz College today offers B.A., M.A., and doctoral programs as well as many academic certificates. In Greater Philadelphia, nationally and beyond, Gratz is enriching the lives of college and graduate students, teens and life-long learners.

A pioneer in online learning, Gratz’s programming reaches students worldwide with innovative, distance learning degree programs ranging from graduate teacher education and Holocaust and Genocide Studies to nonprofit management.

Gratz College also offers in-service teacher training, continuing education, specialized programs and courses, and public lectures and forums. Through its Jewish Community High School, Gratz College provides an extensive array of supplementary education programs for 8th -12th graders. The Tuttleman Jewish Public Library of Gratz College is a major research center available to both scholars and the general community.

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Program · May 15, 2016 · 3:00 pm Processional* Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D Major by Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934), accompanied by The Liberty Brass, directed by Jeffrey Miller Marshals Mindy Blechman, M.A.J.S., Assistant Director, Office of Admissions; Coordinator, Holocaust and Genocide Studies Program Deborah Aron, Director of Online and Distance Learning; Advisor for the Jewish Communal Service and Jewish Non-Profit Management Programs National Anthem* Star Spangled Banner, Yaffa Howard Presiding Joy W. Goldstein, President Welcome from the Gratz College Board of Governors David H. Weinstein, Esq., Chairman Conferring of Honorary Degrees Joy W. Goldstein, President Assisted by Dr. Rosalie Guzofsky, Dean and Vice President for Academic Affairs Doctor of Hebrew Laws, honoris causa David H. Weinstein Assisted by Dr. Rosalie Guzofsky, Dean and Vice president of Academic Affairs Daniel Cohen, Esq., member of the Gratz College Board of Governors Doctor of Hebrew Letters, honoris causa Hazzan David F. Tilman Assisted by Dr. Saul P. Wachs, Rosaline B. Feinstein Professor of Education and Liturgy; Chair of the Education Department at Gratz College.

Dr. Joseph Davis,Assiciate Professor of Jewish Thought; Academic Coordinator of the Distance Learning Program Doctor of Communal Affairs, honoris causa Rabbi Steve Gutow Assisted by Dr. Ruth Sandberg, Leonard and Ethel Landau Professor of Rabbinics; Director of the Graduate Certificate in Jewish-Christian Studies program Dr. Joshua Gutoff, Assistant Professor of Jewish Education; Director, M.A. in Jewish Education Program Commencement Address Rabbi Steve Gutow Granting of Diplomas – Jewish Studies Joy W. Goldstein, President Assisted by Dr. Rosalie Guzofsky, Dean and Vice President for Academic Affairs Valedictorian Leslee Przygodski, M.A. Holocaust and Genocide Studies Hatikvah* Hazzan David F. Tilman Benediction Dr. Saul P. Wachs, Rosaline B. Feinstein Professor of Education and Liturgy; Chair of the Education Department at Gratz College.

Recessional* Halleluyah (Psalm 150) by Louis Lewandowski (1821-1894) by The Liberty Brass * The assembly is requested to rise and remain standing

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Rabbi Steve Gutow Rabbi Gutow is a nationally renowned lawyer-turned-rabbi, whose resume reads like an encyclopedia of tikkun olam, the Jewish concept of repairing the world. He recently retired from his position as president and CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA), where he focused on combating poverty, protecting the environment, opposing the genocide in Darfur, building interfaith cooperation and working on other social justice issues. He also opposed the demonization of Israel, and to this end, played an integral role in the creation of the Israel Action Network as a resource for refuting attacks on Israel’s right to exist.

In addition, in September 2015, Rabbi Gutow was appointed by President Obama to the President’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, where he works with the other council members to address the problem of economic inequality in the United States.

Rabbi Gutow has helped lead the “Fighting Poverty with Faith” interfaith initiatives since 2008 and the anti-hunger Seder events at the U.S. Capitol since 2009. From 2008 to 2009, Rabbi Gutow served as Chair of the Save Darfur Coalition, and currently serves as executive committee member of its successor organization, United to End Genocide.

Rabbi Gutow is the founding executive director of the National Jewish Democratic Council, which was founded in 1990. Rabbi Gutow has served as a member of the Board of Faith in Public Life from 2010 to 2013. He currently serves as Chair of the Board of the National Religious Partnership for the Environment, a coalition of religious leaders from different faiths who are focused on environmental protection.

Rabbi Gutow received a B.A. and J.D. from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.H.L. from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College.

Honored to address the graduates at Gratz College, Rabbi Gutow says, “Asking me to give a talk on social justice really speaks to the Gratz students and to the work Gratz does.”

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Hazzan David F. Tilman Hazzan Tilman, a Juilliard School graduate and former Jewish Exponent music columnist, is completing a five-year tenure as adjunct associate professor at The Jewish Theological Seminary’s cantorial school in New York. He is also director of the adult chorus of Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel in Elkins Park, and hazzan emeritus of nearby Beth Sholom Congregation. During his 36-year career at Beth Sholom, he established an award-winning music program through which he created four choirs and taught thousands of adults and children to lead services and chant Torah.

Since 2004, he has also organized a popular annual winter concert, jointly performed by the synagogue choirs along the Old York Road corridor in Elkins Park.

In addition to traveling to Israel, Eastern Europe and Cuba with his Beth Sholom choirs, Hazzan Tilman has lectured and sung in Chile, conducted in Berlin, led Shabbat services in Munich, and lectured at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia prior to a performance by the Philadelphia Orchestra. He has worked with Leonard Nimoy, of “Star Trek” fame, and with Stephen Schwartz, composer and lyricist for “Godspell,” “Pippin,” “Wicked” and other shows.

Hazzan Tilman says that he is humbled to receive the honorary degree from Gratz College because it has been awarded to people of significant accomplishment over the years. In his case, he considers the degree a validation of the important role of the cantor in the Jewish community.

David H. Weinstein, Esq. David Weinstein is the outgoing chair of the Gratz College Board of Governors. Mr. Weinstein is a respected attorney who has dedicated much of his life to service, both in and outside the Jewish community.

As part of his practice in complex commercial litigation, Mr. Weinstein has pursued cases imbued with the public interest.

For their efforts, he and his legal team have received the Human Rights Award of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and the Public Justice Achievement Award of Trial Lawyers for Public Justice.

Currently, David is also one of four court-appointed lawyers in a suit against Hungary and the Hungarian National Railway on behalf of both Holocaust survivors and the heirs of Holocaust victims.

Believing that Jewish learning is “at the heart of leading a meaningful Jewish life,” Mr. Weinstein joined the Gratz College Board of Governors in 2010, and assumed the position of board chair three years later. With his chairmanship coming to a close, he will continue his work on the board, explaining, “Gratz College fits neatly into my own value system because I believe that ongoing Jewish education is a fundamental part of being Jewish.”

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Candidates for Degrees, Certificates and Diplomas Bachelor of Arts in Jewish Studies Sara Engel** Judah Asher Sussman

Graduate Certificate in Holocaust and Genocide Studies Anne Knott* Marc Lieberson**

Graduate Certificate in Jewish Non-profit Management Jane Rachel Anderson** Brandon M. Cohen Rabbi Holly Levin Cohn** Sarah Fleischman** Asher Joy Lillian Menashe Ronnie Elizabeth Weisberg**

Master of Arts in Jewish Studies Lois D. Berentschot** Geoffrey Brown** Pamela Ehrenkranz** Lois Lorraine Kittner** Roger Ewald Lang, Jr.** Sheryl Shulman** Laurie Fisher** Lisa Lynn Vendeland**

Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Stuides

December 2015 Danielle Eva Angres

May 2016 Lara Westmoreland Duguid** Donald T. Finney** Richard Mark Goldstein** Lindsay Marie Levesque** Jennifer L. Matsunaga** Jessica Ann Monson-Donnerbauer** Jillian Leigh Nataupsky Leslee Przygodski** Leah Ann Hemeyer Simpson* Lori Rae Shipley** Brittany Suzanne Snyder** Michael C. Towle** Michael E. Weaver* Hannah Elise Wilson

Master of Arts in Jewish Education Beth A. Brenner** Laurie Fisher** Lisa Lynn Vendeland** Shira Rebecca Weissbach**

Doctor of Education Iris Lynn Schwartz**

Master of Arts in Jewish Communal Service Jane Rachel Anderson** Brandon M. Cohen Rabbi Holly Levin Cohn** Sarah Fleischman** Asher Joy Lillian Menashe Ronnie Elizabeth Weisberg**

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* Honors ** High Honors

Master of Arts in Education

August 2015 Parris Travers Abt** Marcella L. Acinapura** Audrey Appleby Benson** Nadine Brown** Annette Angella Cazley** Amanda Lyn Christman** Estelle Cooley Szcerba** Tracy Lynn Coyle** Morgan M. Day** Brook S. Devlin** Jennifer M. Doncsecz** Julianne Ellis** Nicole M. Gallagher** Mary Jo Garcia-Miles** Maurine H. Gehring** Kristine Ann Gray** Tina M. Gray** Mary Lynn Hawkinson** Albert Hopkins, Jr.** Monica Jean Johnson** Karen Barziza Jones** Tyler Stern-Davis Kukla** Leslie J. Kulp** Erin Elizabeth Lord** Jean Frances Maguire** Beth Malekoff** Heather N. Marshall** Kimberley McCarthy** Jessica Lynn Meyer** Kelly K. Pepper** Sarah Kristin Peterson** Stephanie Phillips** Kristie Kruger Rineer** Laura Ann Sabold** Margaret Elise Smalls** Beverly Ann Spangler** Katherine Lea Turner** Adam M. Vezer** Jaquelyn Ann Viebahn** David G. Vitanovec** Marie L. Vollmer** Quynh-Giao Vu** Sherri L. Watson-Fisher** Brianne Lyn Williamson** Abigail Woods** Patricia D. Yohe**

December 2015 Carly Marie Anonsen** Wesley Kirk Baker** Danielle Lee Bowen** Ward Vernon Brumfield** Melissa M. Campbell** Tara Leigh Cardano*

Christie Lynn Carels** Erica Carr** Wendy Crossgrove** Jennifer L. Dwyer** Kayla Nicole Finch** Wendy Flowers-Kline** Gail Theresa Hallman** Heather Hand** Sara Ann Hart** Tara Lynn Hempel** Julie L. Hoin** Marie A. Jones** Renee Linn Larimore** Marijana K. Lake** Lindsey Erin Layo** Anne Moroney Liedtka* Debra L. Linnell** Ryan Matthew MacNair** Dawn Marchese** Jennifer L. Meyers** Carol A. Martelli** Alicia A. Mason** Kathleen O'Hara McNemar** Elizabeth Helene Brody Meehan** Matthew Moyer** Thaddeus Moyer** Kathleen Elizabeth Pettia** Gus Alexander Pollack** Diane Pryor** Danielle Joy Radcliffe** Amanda Reber** Daniel David Reitz** Cushla M. Rullo** Lynne Turiano-Rzucidlo** Tara Schultz** Daphne Grace Sellers** Krystle Anne Simpson** Anthony Sole** Alison McKenica Sprague** Jennifer L. Stelmach** Tiffany Stewart Kline** Penny Dennis Stinchcomb** Meghan Tobin** Christine Ann Tripp** Vincent Dimitri Tuozzo** Flora H. Valdivia-Coe** Carol Ann Walker** Linsey Ann Webb** Jennifer Anne Welsh** Victoria Whetzel** Dina Marie Williams** Jill K. Williams** Rebecca A. Wise** Natasha LaShawn Wright** Alexis M. Yett**

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Master of Arts in Education, continued

May 2016 Emily Bailey** Matthew Blackburn** Karen Denise Brown** Brian T. Brzozowski** Samantha Sheryl Carew-Tyree** Elsa J. Feinglass** Ashlie Hill** Helen Irwin** Paul Iyesi** Laquel Marie Cuozzo** Nisha Janell Lee-Lopez** Brian Adam McKinney** Daniel Myers** Lauren Oswald** Rachel Ann Rudisill** Jenna Chelsey Melton** Amber Swiatocha* Tricia Krueger Ternovan** Craig Reid Van Demark** Andrea Elizabeh Walton** Laura M. Yoder**

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Prize Recipients The Nettie R. Ginsburg and Nathaniel I.S. Goldman Prize Leslee Przygodski

L. Bernard Rabinowitz Memorial Award Iris Lynn Schwartz

Rema Feinberg Award for Excellence in Jewish Studies Sheryl Shulman

Rabbi Joel S. and Sylvia Mintz Geffen Prize in Contemporary Jewish Studies Rabbi Holly Levin Cohn

Ephraim L. Goldman Memorial Prize Sarah Fleischman

The Jonathan and Susan Rosenbaum Prize for Excellence in Hebrew Geoffrey Brown

Rabbinics Mark Cantora

Sociology Ronnie Elizabeth Weisberg Jane Rachel Anderson

Jewish Education Laurie Fisher

Education Craig Reid Van Demark

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Honorary Doctoral Degrees Awarded by Gratz College from May 2000

Sir Martin Gilbert, z"l Aaron Landes, z”l Sora E. Landes Nahum M. Waldman Arthur Aryeh Goren Myer S. Kripke Florence Melton z”l Edna Tuttleman, z”l Stanley C. Tuttleman z”l Neil A.Davidson Jeffrey H. Tigay Judith Abrams Steinhardt Michael H. Steinhardt Gary E. Erlbaum Vicki O. Erlbaum Rela Mintz Geffen Spencer Monte Kagan Linda Isobel Albert Elliot N. Dorff Richard M. Joel Kenneth S. Kaiserman Vivian Berry Diane M. Gess Judith Hauptman Doris Konover Simon Konover Dalck Feith z”l Rose Feith Lawrence A. Hoffman Louis L. Mervis Sybil Stern Mervis Suzanne H. Pasch John Frederick Parkin Diana L. Ramsey Edward M. Satell Chava Lenore E. Wessler Michael Fishbane Geraldine Dietz Fox Richard J. Fox Diane King Séan F. O Connor Uziel Adini David Walter Cohen David A. Sousa Jonathan Daniel Sarna Martin Bachman Louise Dieterle Marsha Bryan Edelman Michael Berenbaum Richard Solomon Sister Mary C. Boys

Hebrew Literature Hebrew Letters Hebrew Letters Hebrew Literature Hebrew Letters Hebrew Letters Humane Letters Humane Letters Humane Letters Humane Letters Hebrew Letters Humane Letters Humane Letters Humane Letters Humane Letters Hebrew letters Humane Letters Humane Letters Hebrew Literature Hebrew Laws Humane Letters Humane Letters Humane Letters Humane Letters Humane Letters Humane Letters Humane Letters Humane Letters Divinity Humane Letters Humane Letters Humane Letters Humane Letters Humane Letters Humane Letters Hebrew Letters Hebrew Literature Communal Affairs Laws Hebrew Literature Humane Letters Hebrew Letters Hebrew Laws Humane Letters Hebrew Letters Humane Letters Humane Letters Hebrew Letters Humane Letters Humane Letters Humane Letters

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Toby J. Karten Bruce H. Holberg Lena Allen-Shore Rabbi Michael L. Chernick John A. Krewer Jerry M. Kutnick The Honorable Robert P. Casey, Jr. Jean Blaydes Moize James Burns Professor Shamma Friedman

Humane Letters Humane Letters Humane Letters Laws Humane Letters Hebrew Letters Laws Humane Letters Humane Letters Humane Letters

2012 2012 2013 2013 2013 2013 2014 2014 2015 2015 * awarded posthumously

Faculty 2015-2016 *Full-Time Faculty Uziel Adini, Teacher’s Diploma (Lifschitz Teacher’s College, Israel); Teacher’s Certificate, B.A., M.A. (Hebrew University); Ed.D. (Dropsie College); Professor of Hebrew Literature and Education Julia Steinberg Agnew, B.A. (Bowdoin College), M.S. (University of Pennsylvania); Adjunct Faculty Katherine Aron-Beller, B.A., M.Phil. (Manchester University); Ph.D. (Haifa University); Adjunct Online Faculty Gloria Becker, B.A. (Muhlenberg College); M.A.J.Ed. (Gratz College); Ed.D. (Argosy University); Adjunct Instructor Jewish Education Jeff Benvenuto, B.A. (College of Charleston); M.A. (University of North Carolina); M.A. (Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Krakow Poland); Ph.D. pending (The State University of New Jersey), Adjunct Online Faculty Steven M. Brown, B.A., BHL (Combined Program of JTS and Columbia University), M.A., Ed.D. (Teachers College, Columbia University), MHL, Rabbinic Ordination (Reconstructionist Rabbinical College); Adjunct Faculty Jewish Education Stephen Chortanoff, B.A. (Lycoming College), M.A. (The Pennsylvania State University), M.Ed. (Temple University), M.A. (American Military University); Adjunct Faculty *Joseph Davis, A.B. (Brown University); Ph.D. (Harvard University); Associate Professor of Jewish Thought; Academic Coordinator Online and Distance Learning Michael Dickerman, B.A. (Temple University); M.A. (Stockton College); M.A.J.S. (Reconstructionist Rabbinical College); Adjunct Instructor Holocaust and Genocide Studies Matthew Duvall, B.S. (Indiana Weslyan University), M.A., M.F.A. (Seton Hill University), M.S., Ph.D. (Drexel University); Adjunct Instructor Marsha Bryan Edelman, B.A., M.Ed., Ed.D. (Columbia University); B.H.L., B.Sac.Mus. M.Sac.Mus. (Jewish Theological Seminary of America); Professor Emerita of Music and Education Sydney Engelberg, B.A. (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa); M.A. (Hebrew University); Ph.D. (SUNY Buffalo); Adjunct Online Instructor Saundra Sterling Epstein, B.A., M.A., Ed.D. (University of Pennsylvania); Adjunct Instructor in Jewish Education Miriam Ferraro, B.Mus. (Temple University), M.A.J.Ed. (Gratz College), Ed.D. (Gratz College); Adjunct Faculty, MAEd program

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Josey Fisher, B.A., M.S.W. (University of Pittsburgh); M.A. (Gratz College); Director, Holocaust Oral History Archive; Consultant in Holocaust Education and Adjunct Faculty Marsha Friedman, B.A. (University of Pennsylvania); M.A., Ph. D. (Washington University-St. Louis); M.H.L., Rabbi (Reconstructionist Rabbinical College); Adjunct Instructor in Sociology Reena Sigman Friedman, B.A. (Cornell University); M.A., Ph.D. (Columbia University); Adjunct Faculty Rela Mintz Geffen, B.S., M.A. (Columbia University); B.R.E. (Jewish Theological Seminary of America); Ph.D. (University of Florida); Adjunct Assistant Professor of Sociology Allan Glazerman, B.A. (City College of New York); M.A. (Syracuse University); M.B.A. (Kennesaw State University); M.A. (Syracuse University); Adjunct Online Faculty David Green, B.A., M.S.W. (University of Maryland); M.A. (Baltimore Hebrew College); M.A. (Lehigh University); M.A.J.Ed. (Gratz College); D.Min. (Hartford Seminary); Assistant Professor of Jewish Communal Service *Joshua Gutoff, B.A. (Yale College); M.A., Rabbi, Ed.D. (The Jewish Theological Seminary of America); Assistant Professor of Jewish Education, Director, Master of Arts in Jewish Education Program, Coordinator, Doctoral Program in Jewish Education Bea Hollander-Goldfein, B.A. (City College of New York); Ph.D. (Columbia University), Adjunct Faculty Nancy Isserman, B.A. (University of Chicago); M.S.W. ( Washington University); Ph.D. (The Graduate School, City University of New York); Adjunct Online Faculty Eric M. Lankin, B.S. (Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania), M.A., Rabbinical Ordination (Jewish Theological Seminary of America), D.Min. (Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion); Adjunct Faculty Richard Lederman, B.A. (Miami University Ohio); Ph.D. (The Annenberg Research Institute, Successor to Dropsie College); Adjunct Online Faculty Peter Lucash,B.A. (New York University), M.B.A. (Columbia University), M.P.H. (Columbia University); Adjunct Instructor of Jewish Non-Profit Management Jennifer L. Marlow, B.A. (Saginaw Valley State University); Ph.D. (Michigan State University), Adjunct Online Faculty Randy McCullough B.S. (Villanova University), MBA (Penn State University): Adjunct Faculty Keren McGinity, B.A. (Rutgers University), A.L.M. (Harvard University), M.A., Ph.D. (Brown University); Adjunct Faculty Keren McGinity, B.A. (Rutgers University); A.L.M. (Harvard University); M.A., Ph.D. (Brown University); Adjunct Online Faculty Harriette Mishkin, B.S. (Temple University); M.S.W. (University of Pennsylvania); M.B.A. (LaSalle University); Adjunct Online Faculty John Laurence Miller, B.S. (University of Toronto), Licence en psychologie (Université de Genève), M.A., Ph.D. (Harvard University); Adjunct Professor of Psychology Deborah Nagler, B.A. (Washington University); M.A. (Jewish Theological Seminary); M.S. (Full Sail University); Adjunct Instructor of Jewish Education Zsuzsanna Palmer, B.A. (Grand Valley State University), M.A. (Central Michigan University), M.A. (Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest, Hungary), Ph.D. (Old Dominion University); Adjunct Faculty

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Meredith Englander Polsky, Certificate in Early Intervention (Georgetown University); B.A. (University of Michigan); M.S (Columbia University School of Social Work); M.S. Ed. (Bank Street College of Education); Adjunct Online Faculty *Ruth Sandberg, B.A. (Bryn Mawr College); Rabbi (Reconstructionist Rabbinical College); Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania); Leonard and Ethel Landau Professor of Rabbinics, Director JewishChristian Studies Program Christine E. Schmidt, B.A. (University of Michigan-Dearborn); Certificate in Museum Studies; (The George Washington University); Ph.D. (Clark University); Adjunct Instructor in History Mark Snyder, B.A. (University of Pennsylvania); M.A., M.Ed., Ph.D. (Temple University); Adjunct Faculty *Michael Steinlauf, B.A., M.A. (Columbia University); Ph.D. (Brandeis University); Associate Professor of History, Director, Holocaust and Genocide Studies Program Rabbi Lance Sussman, B.A. (Franklin & Marshall College), M.A.H.L., Rabbinic Ordination, Ph.D. (Hebrew Union College); Adjunct Professor of History and Holocaust and Genocide Studies Gail Viamonte, B.A. (Alfred University);, M.A. (Syracuse University), Ph.D. (State University of New York at Albany); Adjunct Faculty *Saul P. Wachs, Hebrew Teacher’s Diploma (Gratz College); B.S. (Temple University); B.S.M., Hazzan, B.R.E., D.Ped., h.c. (Jewish Theological Seminary of America); M.A., Ph.D. (Ohio State University); Rosaline B. Feinstein Professor of Education and Liturgy; Director, Ed.D. Program, Chair, Education Department Joe Welsh, B.S., M.B.A. (Philadelphia University); J.D., Temple University School of Law; Adjunct Faculty Jessica Whittemore, B.S. (The Pennsylvania State University), M.A.Ed. (Gratz College); Adjunct Faculty

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Staff and Administration Rose Actor-Engel, Webmaster Debbie Aron, B.A. (Brandeis University),M.S.W. (Yeshiva University), Senior Educator fellow (Hebrew University); Director, Online and Distance Learning; Advisor, Jewish Communal Service Program Mindy Blechman, B.A. (Temple University), M.A.J.S. (Gratz College); Assistant Director of Admissions; Coordinator, Holocaust and Genocide Studies Miriam Ferraro, B.Mus. (Temple University), M.A.J.Ed. (Gratz College), Ed.D. (Gratz College); Assistant Director, Jewish Community High School Josey Fisher, B.A., M.S.W. (University of Pittsburgh), M.A. (Gratz College); Director, Holocaust Oral History Archive; Consultant in HolocaustEducation; Adjunct Faculty Michael Folensbee, B.A., M.B.A. (University of New Hampshire); Director, Finance and Administration Joy W. Goldstein, B.A., M.B.A. (Temple University); President Rosalie Guzofsky, B.A. (Queens College), M.A., Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania); Vice President and Dean for Academic Affairs Erin Hirsh, B.A. (Vassar College), M.H.L. (Reconstructionist Rabbinical College); Director, Jewish Community High School, NEXT Yaffa Howard, A.A. (Haifa University); Accounts Payable, Business Office Laura Hughes, B.A. (Penn State, Abington), M.S. (Drexel University), Supervisory Certificate (Drexel University); Assistant to the Dean/VP Academic Affairs for Special Projects; Academic Advisor, MAEd Jonathan Jennings, B.S. (University of Virginia); B.M. Jazz Studies ( University of the Arts); Systems Support Specialist Dodi Klimoff, B.F.A. and Teaching Certification in Art Education, (Philadelphia College of Art); 4 Year Certificate in Sculpture (PA Academy of Fine Arts); Assistant Director, Office of Admissions; Assistant to the President Hope Matles, Administrative Assistant Suzette Martinez, B.S, M.B.A, (DeVry University); Director of Information Technology Nancy Nitzberg, B.A., M.A. (Boston University), M.S.L.S. (Columbia University); Director, Tuttleman Library Ann Perazzelli, B.A. (Saint Joseph’s University), M. A. (Rosemont College); Director of Admissions Rochelle Rabeeya, B.A. (SUNY, Buffalo), M.A.J.R.E. (Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion), Hon. Doctorate (Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion); Assistant Director, Jewish Community High School, NEXT Barbara Rosenau, B.A. (Boston University), M.P.A. (Temple University); Director of Adult Jewish Learning Michelle Taylor, B.A. (Cabrini College), M.S. (Drexel University); Registrar, Director of Financial Aid & Compliance, Institutional Research Karen West, Student Billing, Business Office Lovisa Woodson, B.S. (West Chester University); Coordinator, Office of Student Records Len Zimmerman, B.A. (LaSalle University); Director of Development 15

National Anthem of Israel: HaTikvah Kol od balevav p'nimah ‫כל עוד בלבב פנימה‬ Nefesh Yehudi homiyah ‫נפש יהודי הומיה‬ Ulfa'atey mizrach kadimah ‫ולפאתי מזרח קדימה‬ Ayin l'tzion tzofiyah ‫עין לציון צופיה‬ Od lo avdah tikvatenu ‫עוד לא אבדה תקותנו‬ Hatikvah bat shnot alpayim ‫התקוה בת שנות אלפים‬ L'hiyot am chofshi b'artzenu ‫להיות עם חופשי בארצנו‬ Eretz Tzion v'Yerushalayim ‫ארץ ציון וירושלים‬ An eye still gazes toward Zion Our hope is not yet lost, The hope of two thousand years, To be a free people in our land, The land of Zion and Jerusalem

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Gratz College Board of Governors: 2015-2016 David H. Weinstein, Esq., Chair Paul Auerbach, Esq. Daniel Cohen, Esq. Lowell Dubrow, Esq. Kathy Elias, M.A.J.S. Alan S. Fellheimer, Esq., Secretary Judith E. Fellheimer, Esq., Chair, Finance Committee Lawrence B. Fine, Esq., Chair, Academic Affairs Committee Rabbi Albert Gabbai Bennett Goldstein Joy W. Goldstein, President Bruce H. Holberg Leon Levy, Chair, Endowment Committee Sandra O. Lilienthal, Ed.D. Morton Mandell, M.D. Larry Pitt, Esq. Jack Porter, Ed.D. Michelle Portnoff, Esq., Chair, Development Committee Jill Rosen, Chair, Jewish Community High School Committee Murray Shusterman, Esq. Rabbi Lance J. Sussman, Ph.D. Saul Wachs, Ph.D., Faculty Representative

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