STUDIES IN JEWISH EDUCATION III: Teacher, Teaching, and Community

MOSES ABERBACH is a Professor of History and Literature at Baltimore Hebrew College. He is also on the faculty of the Ecumenical Institute of Theology at St. Mary's Seminary and University, and a visiting Professor at Johns Hopkins University.

YAIR AURON received his Masters degree from the Institute for Contemporary Jewry of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and his Ph.D. from the Sorbonne. Specializes in research in contemporary Jewry in France, and in the field of informal education.

JANET AVIAD is senior lecturer in Jewish Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Doctorate in Religion from Columbia University.

ADRIANNE BANK is a Senior Research Associate at the University of California at Los Angeles' Center for the Study of Evaluation, where she has done research and training for the past twelve years. She consults extensively for Jewish organizations and teaches at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles, She is the author of several books and numerous articles on the subject of evaluation.

MORDECAI BAR-LEV received his Ph.D. from Bar-Ilan University in 1977: doctoral study of graduates of Yeshiva high-schools in Israel. Lecturer at Bar-Ilan University, editor of forthcoming volume on Bnei Akiva. Published many articles on religious education in Israel, and a new book, Religious Education in Israel.

ERIK H. COHEN studied Philosophy and Sociology at the University of Lyon. Teaches Philosophy and Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University, and is involved in informal Jewish education. Jerusalem Fellow 1983-1986, and in 1986 received his Ph.D. from the Sorbonne on the subject of French Jewish Volunteers during the Yom Kippur War. Currently conducting survey of Jewish Education in France.

SERGIO DELLAPERGOLA is a Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Contemporary Jewry of the Hebrew University and Associate Director of its Division for Jewish Demography and Statistics.

ALLIE DUBB taught anthropology and was Director of the African Studies Institute at the Witwatersand University, Johannesburg, before coming on Aliyah in 1978. His parallel fields of interest were African urbanization and the sociology and demography of the South African Jewish community. He has been Director of the Project for Jewish Educational Statistics at the Hebrew University's Institute for Contemporary Jewry since 1982.

BARRY HOLTZ is co-director of the Melton Research Center for Jewish Education at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City and an assistant professor in the Seminary's Department of Jewish Education. He is also an editor of the Melton Journal — Issues and Themes in Jewish Education and the editor of Back to the Sources, a guide to reading and understanding the great Jewish classics.

MENACHEM LEVIN received his B.A. and M.A. in Education, Jewish History and Geography from Hebrew University. Studying for his Ph.D. in King College, England. Rich experience in Jewish education in Israel, Britain and Australia. Currently serves as Pedagogic Coordinator at the Lipshitz Teachers' Seminar in Jerusalem.

STEPHEN MILLER is Head of the Department of Social Science and Humanities and Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the City University, London. His research interests include visual perception, research methodology, and Jewish educational research. He is the coordinator of the Jewish Education Research Unit based at The City University.

EDUARDO RAUCH is co-director of the Melton Research Center for Jewish Education at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City and an assistant professor in the Seminary's Department of Jewish Education. He is also an editor of The Melton Journal — Issues and Themes in Jewish Education.

DAVID RESNICK holds the dual position of Active Executive Vice President and Director of the Department of Community Services and Studies at the Jewish Education Service of North America. He has also served as Principal of the Prozdor High School of the Jewish Theological Seminary in America, as administrator of the Melton Research Center at the Seminary, and as Acting Dean of the Seminary College.

RONALD REYNOLDS is the chairman of the Research Task-Force of the Coalition for Alternatives in Jewish Education. He is also a consultant at the Los Angeles Bureau of Jewish Education. His current field of interest is the conceptualization of organizational goals and making them operational.

MARC ROSENSTEIN is presently the principal of Akiba Hebrew Academy, a communal secondary day school in Philadelphia.