1599 Sussex Road Teaneck, NJ Birth date: 12/8/43 Education

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1 Prof. Michael Chernick Curriculum Vitae 1599 Sussex Road Teaneck, NJ Birth date: 12/8/43 Education Married, 2 children: Jeremy, Saul BA, magna cum laude, Yeshiva College, 1965 MA, Bernard Revel Graduate School, 1969 Ordination, R Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, 1969 Ph.D., Bernard Revel Graduate School, 1978 Honors and Awards Yeshiva College Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture American Academy for Jewish Research Awards in English Literature, Talmud, AMD Jewish History, 1965 Grants for doctoral study: ; Publication grants: ; Publication grants: ; Included in Who's Who in the East; Who's Who in Biblical Studies; and the International Who's Who: Deutsch Family Chair in Jewish Jurisprudence and Social Justice, 1994 Professional Experience Prof, Rabbinic Literature, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Associate Prof, Assistant Prof, Visiting Professor, Rabbinic and Graduate School, Jewish Theological Seminary, Summer 1985 and

2 1987, Fall 1994-Spring 1995, Spring 2009 Visiting Professor, NYU Graduate School of Business Administration, Language Proficiencies Aramaic (eastern and western talmudic and medieval): fluent reading ability English: native language French: good reading ability German: good reading ability Greek (Septuagint and New Testament): reading with lexicon Hebrew (biblical, rabbinic): fluent reading ability; Hebrew (modern): fluent reading, writing and speaking ability Yiddish: good reading, writing, and speaking ability Books *Hermeneutical Studies, 175 pp., Haberman Institute, Israel, *Hermeneutical Studies: Gezerah Shavah, 274 pp., Haberman Institute, *Essential Papers in Talmud, 580 pp., NYU Press, *A Great Voice That Did Not Cease, Hebrew Union College Press, 2009 Selected Articles and Papers "Women as Witnesses and Judges in Jewish Law," Department of Religion, Temple University, "The Halachic Growth-Process and Change," Sh'ma "Form Criticism and the Dating ofmidrashic and Talmudic Material," Brandeis University, NEJS, "Talmudic Responses to Christianity," NCCJ Academic Circle, Philadelphia, "Scriptural Authority in Judaism," NCCJ Academic Circle, Philadelphia, "The Use of Ribbuyim and Mi'utim in the Halakic Midrash ofr. Ishmael," JQK, "Halakah (Jewish Law): Its Original Character and Principles for Renewal," Petahim (Hebrew), "The Hermeneutic Kelal u-ferat u-kelal: Its History and Development," AAJR Annual Meeting, 1980

3 "Some Talmudic Responses to Christianity, 3-4 Centuries," JES, "An Agenda for Midrash Halakah Studies: Chairperson's Introduction," AJS Rabbinic and Talmudic Studies Interest Circle, "The Development of Kelal u-ferat u-kelal Hermeneutics," Tarbiz (Hebrew), '''Ish as Man and Adult in the Halakic Midrashim," JQR, "The Need for Halakah (Jewish Law)," Shalheyet (Hebrew), The Development of Ribbuim and Mi 'utim Hermeneutics," PAAJR", "Homiletical Resources," Quarterly Review, ''Notes on the Talmud of the Land of Israel, Baba Qama," Talmud Of the Land ofi srael: Baba Qama, ed., Jacob Neusner, University of Chicago Press, "A Prayer-Quorum of Women: A Jewish Legal Inquiry," First International Conference on Women and Halakah, Jerusalem, "Who Pays?: Filial Responsibility in Talmudic Law," Journal of Judaism and Aging, Spring "'General Principles and Specifics from Sinai': An Inquiry into its Original Meaning," Moses Cyrus Weiler Festschrift (Hebrew), "Was Jesus an. Halakic Rabbi?," Symposium for Graduate School, Department of Religion, Temple University, "Mikveh: A Medium for Change of Status," Journal of Refonn Judaism, Spring "A Halakhic View" (Business Ethics), Journal of Refonn Judaism, Summer "Abortion: A Review of Traditional Jewish Sources," Conference on Reproductive Rights, Religious Action Center, UAHC, Fall "Contemporary Talmudic Studies: The Continuing Agenda," New Perspectiyes on Ancient Judaism, vol. 4, "Towards a National Jewish Education," Spring Meeting, Seminar on Continuing Zionist Thought, "Internal Restraints on Gezerah Shawah's Application," IQR, "Developments in the Mufneh Requirement for Gezerah Shavah, " Proceedings of the Tenth World

4 Congress for Jewish Studies (Hebrew), "Monuments in the Biblical and Early Rabbinic Periods," Conference on the Future of Jewish Monuments. Response to Prof David Weiss-Halivni: "Did R. Judah Hanasi Intend the Mishnah to be a Legal Code?", Edelman Lectures, NYU, "A Program for Jewish Education from a Zionist Perspective," Zionist Ideas, "Future Directions for the Study of Legal Midrash," Annual Meeting, AJS "Pesiqah and Midrash: Models for Mishpat Ivri," First Conference on Jewish Law and Talmudic Sources, "The English Language Rabbinic Revolution," Jewish Book Annual, "Maimonides' Conception of the Halakic Process," Second Conference on Jewish Law and Talmudic Sources, "Family Responsibility to the Aged," Sh'ma, "The Distinction between Mitzvah and Halakah in Maimonides' Thought," CCAR Journal, Spring 1997; revised as a paper presented at the Twelfth Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, The Koranic Sura of the Cow and its Relation to Sifre Zuta, Huqqat, 13 th World Congess of Jewish Studies, 1998 "The Intersection of Talmud and Literary Criticism: A Study of Berakot 7a," The Rabbi Jerome Malino Jubilee Volume, Turn It and Turn It Again: Culture and Talmudic Interpretation, in Turn It and Turn It Again: Jewish Medieval Studies and Literary Theory, ed. Sheila Delany, Pegasus Press, Marie de France in the Synagogue, Examplaria, 2007 Polysemous Sugyot, the Rishonim, and Normative Halakhah, Jewish Law Association Studies, The Meaning and Purpose of Contemporary Talmud Study, in Why Study Talmud in the Twenty-First Century?, ed. Paul Socken, On the Teaching of Talmud: Neusner, Brisk, and the Stam, Working Paper Series, Mandel Center for Jewish Education, Brandeis University, A Nation Unto Themselves, Text/Context, Jewish Week, June Reviews Robert Goldenberg, The Sabbath Law of R. Meir, AJS Newsletter, Baruch M. Backer, Mishnaic Judaism in Transition, Journal of the American Orientalist Society, 1983.

5 Jacob Neusner, Judaism: The Case of Mishnah, Journal of Reform Judaism, Phillip Sigal, The Halakhah of Jesus of Nazareth According to Matthew, JES, Summer "Chernick's Response to Falk and Swidler," rejoinder to critique of the above review, JES, Emanuel Rice, Freud and Moses: The Long Journey Home, Viewpoints in Psychoanalysis, Fall Hanina Ben-Menahem, Judicial Deviation in Talmudic Law, AJS Review, Educational and Communal Service Founder/Director, Summer Judaic Studies Program, Kibbutz Yahel/Lotan, Founder/Participant, Jewish Intra-Commmunal Dialogue, Co-founder-Lecturer, Task Force on Jewish Women, Lecturer/Participant, NY Chevra Circle, CLAL, Adult Education Chair, Cong. Rinat Yisrael, Teaneck, Founder, Faculty, The Talmud Circle, Cong. Beth Sholom, Tenaeck, NJ Blood Drive Chair, Cong. Rinat Yisrael, Food Collection Chair, Cong. Rinat Yisrael, Co-founder, Jewish Intra-communal Dialogue Group, Faculty Member, Wexner Heritage Foundation, Faculty Chair (elected), HUC-JIR, New York, Fall 1989-Spring 1992; Fall 1994-Spring Member, Wexner Institutional Grants Committee, Chair, Rabbinics Department, HUC-JIR, New York, Member, Mazon Board, Board Member, JCRC, Bergen County, Chair, Muslim-Jewish Dialogue, JCRC, Bergen County, Faculty, Melton Program, Faculty, Me ah, 2008-