ABOUT US

The Committee on Ethics in Jewish Leadership promotes the values of accountability, transparency, democracy, and fairness in American Jewish organizations and institutions.

WHO WE ARE

Steering Committee of the Committee on Ethics in Jewish Leadership:

Susannah Heschel is the Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College. Her scholarship focuses on Jewish-Christian relations in Germany during the 19th and 20th centuries, the history of biblical scholarship, and the history of anti-Semitism. Her books include Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus, which won a National Jewish Book Award.

Shulamit Magnus is Professor of History and Jewish Studies Emeritus at Oberlin College. A social and cultural historian specializing in Jewish modernity, her books include a critical four-volume edition of Pauline Wengeroff's Memoirs of a Grandmother: Scenes from the Cultural History of the Jews in Russia in the Nineteenth Century, which won the National Jewish Book Award and the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Translation Award.

Rafael Medoff is a Washington, D.C.-based historian and author of 18 books on Jewish history. Dr. Medoff was a winner of the American Jewish Press Association's 2014 Simon Rockower Award for Excellence in Jewish Journalism. He has taught history at Ohio State University, SUNY-Purchase, and elsewhere, and formerly served as associate editor of the scholarly journal American Jewish History.

Keren R. McGinity is a Forward 50 honoree for her clarion call, "There needs to be a Jewish response to the #MeToo movement." A gender historian and scholar of intermarriage, she is the interfaith specialist at the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism and a research associate at the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute. Her books include #UsToo: How Jewish, Muslim, and Christian Women Changed Our Communities.