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Class of 1976

Matthew S. Sperber (Religion)

Class of 1979

Robin Kramarow (Religion--Jewish Studies)

Class of 1980

Hillel D. Gold (Religion--Jewish Studies)

Class of 1981

David J. Bogart (Religion--Jewish Studies)
Linda M. Reich (Religion--Jewish Studies)
Andye H. Zell (Religion--Jewish Studies)

Class of 1982

David L. Becker (Religion--Jewish Studies)
Clifford Churgin (Religion--Jewish Studies)
Philip Feldman (Religion--Jewish Studies)
Beth K. Razin (Religion--Jewish Studies)

Class of 1983

Hedy F. Greenberg (Religion--Jewish Studies)
Steven J. Robinson (Religion--Jewish Studies)
Jeannie B. Sekulow (Religion--Jewish Studies)

Class of 1984

Rachel M. Darnell (Religion--Jewish Studies)

Class of 1985

Ali P. Crown (Religion--Jewish Studies)
Diana G. Frieser (Religion--Jewish Studies)
Hally R. Frist (Religion--Jewish Studies)
Jay S. Lazega (Religion--Jewish Studies)
Mindy A. Naiman (Religion--Jewish Studies)
Geri L. Schachner (Religion--Jewish Studies)

Class of 1986

Michael S. Jackowitz (Religion--Jewish Studies)
Jennifer Laszlo (Religion--Jewish Studies)

Class of 1987

Elissa G. Bouchner (Religion--Jewish Studies)
Lydia Delman (Religion--Jewish Studies)
Jonathan Feldstein (Religion--Jewish Studies)
Deborah S. Wilder (Religion--Jewish Studies)

Class of 1988

Timothy W. Cravens (Religion--Jewish Studies)
Carolyn D. Fanaroff (Religion--Jewish Studies)
Susan M. Gelsey (Religion--Jewish Studies)
Caron H. Heller (Religion--Jewish Studies)
Ilene Spark-Greenberg (Religion--Jewish Studies)

Class of 1989

Daniel G. Ashburn (Religion)
Gary Dubin (Religion--Jewish Studies)
Rebecca Fleischer (Religion)
Tamara L. Indianer (Religion--Jewish Studies)
Wendy E. Lenhard (Religion--Jewish Studies)
Jill N. Max (Religion--Jewish Studies)
Adam M. Morris (Religion--Jewish Studies)
Jill G. Simms (Religion--Jewish Studies)

Class of 1990

Deborah K. Berger (Religion)
Michael H. Horowitz (Religion--Jewish Studies)
Sandra M. Sufian (Religion)
Jennifer A. Wachman (Religion)
Jeffrey L. Widen (Religion--Jewish Studies)

Class of 1991

Noah A. Duke (Near Eastern Studies)
Tema F. Esberg (Religion)
Deborah R. Harris (Religion--Jewish Studies)
Jamie Hymowitz-Lado (Religion--Jewish Studies)
Marc J. Medwed (Near Eastern Studies)
Seth C. Silber (Near Eastern Studies)
Nancy E. Wax (Religion--Jewish Studies)

Class of 1992

Jay L. Abramoff (Near Eastern Studies)
Simeon D. Abramson (Near Eastern Studies)
Marc N. Blattner (Religion--Jewish Studies)
Paul Entis (Religion--Jewish Studies)
Lori Friedman (Near Eastern Studies)
Stacy Glickman-Fialkow (Religion--Jewish Studies)
Eric L. Goldstein (Religion--Jewish Studies and Near Eastern Studies)
Cheryl L. Haas-Goldstein (Religion--Jewish Studies)
Joshua B. Holden (Near Eastern Studies)
Diane L. Katz (Religion--Jewish Studies and Near Eastern Studies)
Jami L. Leeson (Religion--Jewish Studies)
Alyssa Mogul (Religion--Jewish Studies)
Adam L. Silverman (Near Eastern Studies)

Class of 1993

Sharon Arad (Judaic Studies--Judaic Languages and Literature)
Marci L. Feldman (Religion)
Jennifer L. Gomberg (Religion--Jewish Studies)
Robin L. Hanssen (Religion--Jewish Studies)
Noah B. Miller (Near Eastern Studies)
Sujin G. Pak (Religion)
Jennifer S. Rosenau (Religion--Jewish Studies)
Adam Schaffner (Religion)
David S. Spector (Religion--Jewish Studies)

Class of 1994

Heather Altman (Religion and Near Eastern Studies)
Robert B. Baum (Judaic Languages and Literature)
Julie C. Benjamin (Judaic Languages and Literature)
Jody L. Brandon (Religion--Jewish Studies)
Michael E. Freedman (Religion--Jewish Studies)
Amy M. Golden (Religion--Jewish Studies)
Jonathan S. Goodman (Near Eastern Studies)
Seth D. Hoffman (Judaic Languages and Literature)
Peter B. Kaufmann (Religion)
Valerie Marshal (Religion--Jewish Studies)
Renee B. Rittner (Religion)
Felicia B. Ross (Religion--Jewish Studies)
Adam S. Tilove (Religion)

Class of 1995

Benjamin E. Blumenthal (Religion)
Tova B. Cohen (Religion--Jewish Studies)
Amy E. Klapper (Religion--Jewish Studies)
Steven I. Kodsi (Near Eastern Studies)
Kevin B. Martin (Near Eastern Studies)
Cari G. Newman (Religion--Jewish Studies)
Andrea R. Rosenblum (Religion--Jewish Studies)

Class of 1996

Jeffrey A. Levi (Near Eastern Studies)
Douglas S. Levy (Near Eastern Studies)
Karen R. Mandell (Religion--Jewish Studies)
Beth V. Mayesh (Religion)
Amber M. Powers (Religion--Jewish Studies)
Suzanne E. Resnick (Religion)
Craig Schatten (Religion)
Benjamin A. Tillinger (Religion--Jewish Studies)

Class of 1997

Aaron B. Fisher (Near Eastern Studies)
Wendi Geffen (Religion--Jewish Studies)
Sharon Haber (Near Eastern Studies)
Jared Joel (Religion)
Stacie R. Lynn (Near Eastern Studies)
Avinoam J. Patt (Religion--Jewish Studies)
Joshua Y. Slepin (Near Eastern Studies)

Class of 1998

Sally W. Chambers (Religion)
Donna Erez (Middle Eastern Studies)
Jonathan E. Vogel (Middle Eastern Studies)

Class of 1999

Hannah F. Aranson (Middle Eastern Studies)
Tamir Ben-Yoseph (Middle Eastern Studies)
Joshua Busch (Middle Eastern Studies)
Rachel L. Glast (Religion)
Emily S. Guthman (Religion)
Jessica Hershfield (Religion)
Michael K. Lichtman (Middle Eastern Studies)
Erika D. Reff (Middle Eastern Studies)
Erica M. Rosenbaum (Religion)
Jack Tobol (Middle Eastern Studies)

Class of 2000

Craig E. Berzofsky (Middle Eastern Studies)
Sara M. Brennglass (Religion--Jewish Studies)
Michael J. Fried (Religion)
Jill D. Friedman (Middle Eastern Studies)
Seth Friedman (Religion--Jewish Studies)
Robyn L. Mandel (Religion--Jewish Studies)
Sarah E. Richards (Religion--Jewish Studies)
Jessica L. Rosenblat (Religion)
Adam F. Watstein (Middle Eastern Studies)
Amy L. Watve (Middle Eastern Studies)

Class of 2001

Rachel M. Berger (Middle Eastern Studies)
Liran Blum (Middle Eastern Studies)
Danielle J. Elias (Middle Eastern Studies)
Mark A. Mintz (Political Science)
Danielle Perfit Parmenter (Religion)
Doug Rosenbloom (Jewish Studies minor)
Katie Senior (Jewish Studies minor)
Adam D. Shapiro (Jewish Studies major)
Aaron D. Stein (Middle Eastern Studies)

Class of 2002

Eldar P. Cameron (Jewish Studies major)
Lauren R. Davis (Jewish Studies major)
Lisa A. Halpert (Jewish Studies minor)
Jonathan D. Jacobs (Jewish Studies minor)
David P. Morrison (Jewish Studies minor)

Class of 2003

Michelle R. Fendrick (Jewish Studies minor)
Matthew J. Gruenberg (Jewish Studies major)
Lauren P. Israel (Jewish Studies major)
Ilana B. Levy (Jewish Studies minor)
Gabriel R. Meyerson (Jewish Studies major)
Jill H. Nelson (Jewish Studies minor)
Emily L. Saffitz (Jewish Studies minor)
Robyn Serebro (Jewish Studies minor)
Erin J. Smith (Jewish Studies major)

Class of 2004

Meredith S. Bernard (Jewish Studies minor)
Aaron M. Blumberg (Jewish Studies minor)
Elissa H. Buxbaum (Jewish Studies minor)
Sura K. Cartwright (Jewish Studies minor)
Elizabeth L. Devor (Jewish Studies major)
Hayley L. Epstein (Jewish Studies major)
Steven J. Green (Jewish Studies major)
Allison R. Horowitz (Jewish Studies minor)
Arielle S. Kass (Jewish Studies minor)
Erica B. Lowenthal (Jewish Studies minor)
Raquel Szeinfeld (Jewish Studies major)

Class of 2005

Adam Belfer (Jewish Studies major)
Sean Constine (Jewish Studies minor)
Stacey Dembo (Jewish Studies minor)
Ana Fuchs (Jewish Studies major)
Andy Gryll (Jewish Studies major)
Caroline Kallman (Jewish Studies minor)
Danielle Meltzer (Jewish Studies minor)
Roselyn Paskow (Jewish Studies major)
Felicia Schall (Jewish Studies minor)
Ari Schwartz (Jewish Studies minor)
Nola Weinstein (Jewish Studies major)

Class of 2006
Lauren Berk (Jewish Studies minor)
Andrew Cohen (Jewish Studies minor)
Laura Goldstein (Jewish Studies minor)
Rachel Hershenberg (Jewish Studies minor)
Frances Kaminski (Jewish Studies major)
Rebecca Liebeskind (Jewish Studies major)
Julie Nemirovsky (Jewish Studies minor)
Lesley Patterson (Jewish Studies major)
David Rosen (Jewish Studies minor)
David Schmerler (Jewish Studies minor)
Sara Schwab (Jewish Studies minor)
Jessica Siegelheim (Jewish Studies minor)
Lauren Skiba (Jewish Studies major)
Rachel Warren (Jewish Studies minor)
Jamie Weiss (Jewish Studies minor)

Class of 2007

Sarah Blenner (Jewish Studies major)
Leah Foxman (Jewish Studies major)
Joel Frankel (Jewish Studies major)
Adam Frapart (Jewish Studies minor)
Anastasiya Gazhenko (Jewish Studies minor)
Joshua Goodman (Jewish Studies major)
Joseph Greene (Jewish Studies major)
Adam Horowitz (Jewish Studies major)
Joshua Langer (Jewish Studies major)
Jonathan Osteen (Jewish Studies minor)
Natalie Peled (Jewish Studies major)
Jonathan Rio (Jewish Studies major)
Brian Sperber (Jewish Studies minor)

Graduate Alumni

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Alumni of the Jewish Studies M.A. and J.D./M.A. in Judaic Studies

Class of: 1998 • 1999 • 2000 • 2001 • 2002 • 2003 • 2004 • 2005 • 2006 • 2007

Class of 1998

Amy Lynn (Fishkin) Caplan
Beatrice (Wallins) Lawrence
Koranee (Molkner) Peppe

After graduation, I worked for the Greater Miami Jewish Federation in Community Relations and Public Policy. I got married to Jim Peppe and moved to his hometown of Columbus, Ohio. We then spent a short time in Manhattan and are finally settled in Potomac, Maryland. Recently, I had a baby girl, Julia Brooke Peppe (May 4, 2004). I will be returning to work full-time shortly at the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington, doing Leadership Development and Synagogue/Federation Relations. (July 2004)

Class of 1999

Gabrielle Pieck
Louis Reinstein

After graduation I joined the faculty at the David Posnack Hebrew Day School in Plantation, FL, where I taught for 4 years. It is the same school where I went to elementary school. I primarily taught Jewish History, Jewish Studies, and a special class on Israel. I also helped lead the 8th grade on a 2-week study trip to Israel for 3 of the 4 years. I left teaching last year and I have just finished my first year of Nova Southeastern Law School. During the summer I interned at the State Attorney's Office of the 17th Judicial Circuit, covering Broward County. I have served on the Board of the Central Agency for Jewish Education for three years; I have also served on Temple Beth Israel's Board of Directors for 2 years. This summer I got engaged to Adi Menachem. I met her in law school, she is a year ahead of me in law school. (July 2004)

Barbara Rosenblit

While I was getting my degree I was teaching, initially at Epstein and then at the Weber School. I continue to teach at Weber. I have an unpublished paper on Dante and gematria that I worked on while I was in Siena, Italy, where I went to study Dante under National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) funding in 2002. This year I received a Teacher Leadership Award from NEH, which funded a Weber faculty course on Dante conducted in conjunction with faculty members from the Marist School. (Dr. David Blumenthal was one of our guest speakers; he lectured on Maimonides' philosophy.) Last fall, I spoke at the Jewish Women's Archive Board Retreat. Part of the lecture revolved around two exhibitions of artworks by Weber seniors in the Jewish Women course, which have been exhibited at the Marcus Jewish Community Center and at the Selig Center. Most recently, I also wrote the International Day of Study midrash section on Ruth for the Women's League of Conservative Judaism, published this spring. I was notified a few weeks ago that I had won the 2004 Covenant Award. (July 2004)

Class of 2000

Daniel Berke

After graduating I found a job at Marietta's Temple Kol Emeth as the Youth Director. I also created a high school level educational program (similar to Tichon Atlanta) with about 100 students and 10 teachers. I was also asked to learn Torah and Haftarah cantillation in order to tutor students for B'nai Mitzvah. After three years at Kol Emeth and gaining real mastery of cantillation, I decided I would contact all area Temples and offer my services as a B'nai Mitzvah and Hebrew tutor. I still tutor for Kol Emeth, but left my full-time position there as my tutoring business began to blossom. I was recently accepted to the Tel Aviv TASP (Teach and Study Program). I will be in Israel from August 2005 through July 2007. The basic requirements of the program are to teach English to middle school students in Tel Aviv, and pursue an MA in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages at Tel Aviv University. This will greatly expand the kinds of material I am able to teach, and I am thrilled about returning to Israel. The program website is www.tasp.org.il. (May 2005)

Marianna Kaufman
Shana Minkin
Sheerli Rush

Class of 2001

Nehama Benmosche

After graduation, I relocated to a suburb of New York City and began working on course work at the Jewish Theological Seminary. I am currently enrolled in the EdD program. I have finished my course work and I am beginning to work on my comprehensive exams and my dissertation. I will be working next year as the family education and youth director at the Reform Temple of Suffern, Shir Shalom. I will also be continuing my work as a consultant and curriculum writer at the Interfaith Community of Manhattan and working with Project ENGAJE, an adult education program for pre-school teachers. I live in Suffern, New York with my partner, Jennifer, and our 2 dogs and 4 cats. (July 2004)

Joshua Peskin

Josh is a doctoral candidate in Stanford University's Department of Religious Studies, specializing in modern Jewish thought and philosophy. He hopes to finish in Spring of 2008.

Linda Sherer
Martin Wein

I moved to Israel even before my graduation in 2001 and was awarded the Kreitman Fellowship at Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva. I have been working on my dissertation on Jews under the rule of Czech nationalism (1897-1953) since fall 2001. My advisers are Guli Ne'eman Arad and Dan Diner (Hebrew University). I presented my research at the EAJS in Amsterdam in 2002, participated at the Minerva Summer School at the Simon Dubnow Institute in Leipzig in 2003, and held papers at the Czech-Jewish Symposium and the AIS in Jerusalem in 2004. Two articles based on these papers will be published in 2004/2005. I received awards from the Pazi Foundation for Bohemian Jewish History in 2002 and 2003 . (July 2004)

Damian Zoppo

Class of 2002

Julie Pfau

Julie is in her third year at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Philadelphia. She is a student rabbi at Temple B'nai Abraham in Bordertown, New Jersey, and chaplain with the Jewish Family and Children Services of Greater Philadelphia.

Caroline Riegel

Immediately after graduation in May 2002 I went to Amman, Jordan for a dig, and then into the Archaeology PhD program at Boston University. I have since switched career paths! I was Promotions Coordinator for three radio stations at Entercom Boston until November 2003, when I then accepted the position of Promotions Director for two radio stations at Good Karma Broadcasting in Madison, Wisconsin. I am currently living in the city known as "Berkeley of the Midwest," and I have developed a passion for Cheese, Miller Beer, and Green Bay. (July 2004)

Jill Weinberg

After graduation, I began teaching middle and high school Judaica at the San Diego Jewish Academy. I've been made Jewish Studies department chair. (July 2004)

Class of 2003

Sally Chambers
Jakub Kakietek
Angela Riccetti (J.D./M.A.)

Immediately after graduation from the joint JD/MA program, I began studying for the Georgia bar exam. I took it in July of 2003 and thereafter worked as an investigator for the Dekalb County Child Advocacy Center. In November of 2003 I was sworn in as an attorney, and in February of 2004 I began work as a staff attorney for the Atlanta Legal Aid Society. I'm currently preparing to transfer to Legal Aid's Family Law unit. I have not done much writing outside of legal briefs and memos lately; however, part of my master's thesis will be published in a book released through the Law and Religion program at Emory's School of Law. I also married my partner Ansley Yeomans on April 4, 2004. We live in Decatur with our animal menagerie. (July 2004)

Jordan Rosenblum

Jordan Rosenblum has successfully defended his doctoral dissertation, written in the program in Judaism in Antiquity in the Religious Studies Department at Brown University. He will be moving to Madison, Wisconsin, where he will hold the tenure-track Belzer Professorship in Rabbinics in the Department of Hebrew and Semitic Studies and will be a member of the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies.

Rebecca Rubin

In fall 2005, I began a PhD program in linguistics at Georgetown University, where I plan to specialize in Hebrew and Arabic sociolinguistics and applied linguistics.

Class of 2004

Karyn Berger

After graduating, I spent the summer at the University of Haifa in Israel, after first spending two weeks in the Netherlands. While in the Netherlands, I had the incredible opportunity to go to the Portuguese synagogue in the old Jewish quarter in Amsterdam, visit the Westerbork Detainment camp, and to see the new photo exhibit that Otto Frank took of his daughters before the Nazi occupation of Holland. While in Israel, I studied Hebrew for 8 weeks; during my time there, two friends and I travelled to Turkey and spent some time with the Jewish community there--an incredible journey in and of itself. I returned after Ulpan to begin studying Medieval Hebrew and Arabic poetry with Dr. Ray Scheindlin at Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. I was ordained as a rabbi at the Aleph Rabbinic Conference in Boulder, Colorado in January.

Elise Jarvis

After completing the Masters Program in Jewish Studies in the spring of 2004, I moved to Washington, D.C., where I accepted the position of Assistant Director of Law Enforcement Outreach at the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a civil rights organization dedicated to fighting anti-Semitism and other forms of hatred and intolerance. I am responsible for the implementation of Law Enforcement and Society, a training program developed by the Anti-Defamation League and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum that trains police officers and all new FBI agents. The training addresses the challenges law enforcement professionals face as they try to maintain a balance between fighting terrorism and protecting people's civil rights and individual liberties. I am also responsible for organizing and managing ADL's Advanced Training School,a course on extremist and terrorist threats designed for senior level law enforcement personnel. The course provides law enforcement professionals at the federal, state and local levels with information, resources and contacts to increase their ability to combat domestic and international terrorist threats. (January 2005)

Jonathan Kaplan

After graduation, I got married and moved to Boston, studying toward a PhD in Hebrew Bible and History of Interpretation in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. (July 2004)

Class of 2005

Shlomit Attias

After graduation, I was accepted into the doctoral program in education at Haifa University (October 2007)

Noa David
Tim DeBold

I have signed up with the Peace Corps and have received an assignment doing agricultural work in Africa for the next two years, after which I will quite likely be looking for a PhD program. (May 2005)

Nate Hofer

Nate attended the Lehmann workshop at the Center for Advanced Jewish Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. From June until May 2008, Nate is in Damascus, Syria, studying Arabic language on a fellowship provided by the Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA). He is one of nine fellows inaugurating the CASA program in Syria, which previously was conducted only in Egypt.

Alison Joseph

Alison is starting a Ph.D. program in Hebrew Bible at the University of California-Berkeley in Fall 2005. (May 2005)

Liam Machlin

Class of 2006

Marian Broida

Marian has written several unique activity books for children, including Ancient Egyptians and Their Neighbors, Ancient Israelites and Their Neighbors, The Pueblo, Projects about the American Revolution, Projects about American Immigrants From China, and her newest, Projects about Ancient Greece. The books include fun projects to help young readers connect with these ancient cultures and see how profoundly they have influenced our own. Marian is continuing her studies in the Graduate Division of Religion.

Vince Gonzalez
Steve Henkin

Steve is now working as a religious school and youth department administrator at Ahavath Achim Synagogue.

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Class of 2007

Thom Edmondson
Abby Horowitz

While a student here, Abby won first prize in the MA category of the Blumenthal Awards for her paper "Ropes of Love and Other Interpretations of the Akedah in the poetry of Yehuda Amichai." She now works at the Institute for the Study of Modern Israel at Emory, where she supports general office activities and the institute's various programs.

Affiliated Alumni

Graduate alumni of various departments at Emory who were affiliated with Jewish Studies during their degree program.

Dr. Timothy K. Beal (Religion, 1995)
Dr. Ehud Ben-Zvi (Religion, 1990)
Dr. Emanuel Feldman (Religion, 1971)
Dr. Laura Levitt (Religion, 1993)
Dr. Tod Linafelt (Religion, 1997)
Rabbi Dr. Alvin M. Sugarman (Religion, 1988)
Dr. Richard J. Voyles (Religion, 1990)
Dr. Theodore Weinberger (Religion, 1990)
Dr. Sarah Willen (Anthropology, 2006)

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