Steering Committee
![Fern Chertok](images/steering-committee/chertok-fern-340-340.png)
- Expertise:
Community studies, Jewish studies, o rganizational theory and behavior, p rogram evaluation (social sciences), i nterfaith families, v olunteerism.
![Lisa Fishbayn Joffe](https://www.brandeis.edu/hbi/about/images/faculty-staff/joffe-lisa-fishbayn.jpg)
Lisa Fishbayn Joffe, SJD
Shulamit Reinharz Director of Hassadah-Brandeis Institute
- Expertise: Philosophy of multiculturalism, women’s rights under Jewish and secular family law, social movements in support of Agunot, Jewish feminist theory.
![Jon Levisohn](https://www.brandeis.edu/near-eastern-judaic/people/faculty/images/levisohn-jon.jpg)
Jon Levisohn
Director, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education
Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Chair in Jewish Educational Thought
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Expertise: Philosophy of education, with particular interest in purposes, processes, and outcomes of Jewish education in all of its various settings, scholarship of teaching classical Jewish texts.
![Janet Aronson](images/steering-committee/aronson-janet.jpg)
Janet Aronson
Associate Director, Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies and Steinhardt Social Research Institute
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Expertise: Jewish community studies.