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Adam B. Seligman, Director
David W. Montgomery, Coordinator
Rahel Wasserfall, Evaluator
Saul Schapiro, Facilitator
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Adam B. Seligman, Seligman@issrpl.org
Seligman is Professor of Religion at Boston University and Research Associate
at the Institute for Culture, Religion and
World Affairs there. He has lived and taught
at universities in the United States, in Israel
and in Hungary where he was a Fulbright Fellow
from 1990-1992. He lived close to twenty years
in Israel where he was a member of Kibbutz
Kerem Shalom in the early 1970s. His books
include The Idea of Civil Society (Free Press, 1992), Inner-worldly Individualism (Transaction Press, 1994), The Problem of Trust (Princeton University Press, 1997), Modernity’s Wager: Authority, the Self and Transcendence (Princeton University Press, 2000) with Mark Lichbach Market and Community (Penn State University Press, 2000), Modest Claims: Dialogues and Essays on Tolerance and Tradition (Notre Dame University Press, 2004) and with Robert Weller, Michael Puett and
Bennett Simon, Ritual and its Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity (Oxford University Press, 2008). His work has been translated into over a dozen
languages. He lives in Newton, Massachusetts
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David W. Montgomery, Montgomery@issrpl.org
Montgomery has conducted long-term anthropological field research in the Kyrgyz Republic, Uzbekistan and Albania, and his work focuses on the transmission of religious and cultural knowledge, expressions of everyday religious life, and social aspects of religious change in Central Asia and the Balkans. He is a Visiting Assistant Professor in Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh; has held Postdoctoral Fellowships in Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding at Emory University and the University of Notre Dame; worked as a Legislative Assistant for the U.S. House of Representatives; and served as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer. |
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Rahel Wasserfall, Wasserfall@issrpl.org
Wasserfall is the principal at Educational Evaluation Advisors International. She has a broad experiences in evaluation
of educational programs in complex multilingual
and cross cultural settings. Her previous assignments
include: Director of Evaluation and Liaison
to Schools of The Center for the Advancement
of Hebrew Teaching and Learning Inc (HATC);
Senior Research Associate with Education Matters,
Inc and the Mandel Center for Jewish Education
at Brandeis. She is an anthropologist with
a PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
who has wide experience in three different
continents. She has widely published in the
area of gender and is the editor of Women and
Water: Menstruation in Jewish Life and Law (UPNE, 1999). With her move to Boston, Wasserfall
shifted her interest to Jewish education. She
was the Special Coordinator at JCDS (Boston
Jewish Community Day School) in which capacity
she directed the AISNE accreditation process.
She also co-authored (with Susan Sevitz) a
study on Jewish pluralism in a local Day School. She has wide experience in qualitative evaluation and
is the yearly evaluator of the ISSRPL. She
is also a committed yoga practitioner and teacher,
having completed teacher training in the Iyengar
tradition. |
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Saul Schapiro, Schapiro@issrpl.org
Schapiro has been an attorney in Boston, Massachusetts, for over 35 years, representing individual clients and governmental agencies in particular in the field of housing and urban development. He had also served as a Board Member for 20 years and President of the Board of Camp Ramah in New England for 7 years - a Jewish educational institution under the supervision of the Jewish Theological Seminary. For the last four years his firm has served as the corporate attorney for the ISSRPL. He has recently taken the position of the General Counsel for a mutual fund located in Washington, DC, that invest union pension funds and pension monies from public employee pension plans in housing projects across the United States. The program has multiple objectives notably including securing a competitive return on investment, facilitating the construction and/or rehabilitation of affordable housing for low and moderate income and middle class working families and creating jobs for union workers. Since 2007 he has worked with the ISSRPL in developing the facilitation components of the school. |
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