Barbara Spectre on Jewish Influence in Europe

Who is BLS ?
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Barbara Spectre was born in Madison, Wisconsin. She studied philosophy at Columbia University and NYU, attaining a PhD in Philosophy. She married Rabbi Philip Spectre, and the couple moved in 1967 to Ashkelon, Israel, where she served on the faculty of Jewish Studies at Achva College of Education. After moving to Jerusalem in 1982, she served on the philosophy faculty of the Shalom Hartman Institute of Jerusalem, the Melton Center of the Hebrew University, and Yellin College of Education, where she was cited as Outstanding Lecturer 1995–1997. She was the founding chairperson of the Schechter Institute in Jerusalem in 1984


More than 600 graduate students specialize in fourteen Jewish study tracks including art, women’s studies, family and community studies, teaching, informal education, and classical Jewish disciplines such as Bible, Talmud, Midrash, and Jewish Thought. Its newest program – Marpeh – unique to Israel – combines Health-care Chaplaincy with a degree in Family and Community Studies.

The Schechter Institute has 56 full- and part-time faculty members and over 1,200 M.A. graduates. Many work in the Israeli school system as principals and teachers, in the Ministry of Education in management positions, including curriculum planning, or in the nationwide Community Center Association. Schechter research centers include the Center for Women and Jewish Law, the Center for Judaism and the Arts, and the Center for Applied Jewish Law.
Notable faculty

David Golinkin, Talmud and Jewish Law
Eliezer Schweid, Jewish philosophy
Shamma Friedman,[2][circular reference] Talmud

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