Additional Public Positions and Activities

January 2007

Elie Holzer

Curriculum vitae

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Army Service: / Elie Holzer
Halamed Heh Street 33, Jerusalem 93661
02-5672033;
Israeli and Belgian
Married to Suzi, father of 3 daughters
I.D.F.
Academic Higher Education:
1999
1992
1988
1985 / Ph.d in Jewish Thought
HebrewUniversity, Jerusalem. Title of dissertation:
"Nationalism and Morality: Conceptions on the Use of Force Within Ideological Streams of Religious Zionists". Advisor: Prof. Avi Ravitzky.
M.A. in Jewish Thought, Magna Cum Laude
HebrewUniversity, Jerusalem
B.A. in Psychology and Jewish Thought
Bar IlanUniversity, Ramat Gan
B.Ed in Jewish Studies. Herzog Institute, Har-Etsion Yeshiva, Alon Shvut
Extra Academic Higher Education:
1999 Certified Philosophical Counselor
American Philosophical Practitioners Association
1995-1997 Jerusalem Fellows Institute for Jewish Educational Leadership
1997 Rabbinical Ordination, Israel.
1989-1995 Jewish Studies
Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem
1982-1985 Har-Etsion Hesder Yeshiva, Alon Shvut and Ets-Haim Yeshiva, Montreux, Switzerland
Professional Experience:
2001-present
2003-present
2001-2005
Summer 2001
2000
1999
1998
1993-1995
1992-1995
1992-1995
1988-1993
1991-1992
1990-1991
1989-1990
1982 / Assistant Professor at the School of Education, BarIlanUniversity, Ramat Gan, Israel.
Senior Research Associate at the MandelCenter for Studies in Jewish Education at Brandeis University, MA, USA.
Consultant at the Jewish Agency: professional development of teachers of distance learning (videoevents, e-academy and webevents)
Visiting professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary, New York.
Education Associate at the Mandel Foundation, N.Y.C.
Work and Research in Educational Leadership Training, especially in the Education of Teacher Educators for Jewish Education.
SternCollege, N.Y.C.; Lecturer in Jewish Philosophy
Hasha'ar/Drisha, N.Y.C.; Director of a program for the training of teachers’ mentors.
Education Associate at the Mandel Foundation, N.Y.C.
Teacher of Jewish Thought at Maayanot, Teaneck, N.J.
Leading in-service teacher education at Kushner Yeshiva Highschool, N.J. and Maayanot, Teaneck, N.J.
Research fellow at the Rav Soloveitchik Institute, Boston
Consultant at the Mandel Foundation, N.Y.C
Teacher at Maimonides Highschool, Boston
Yaakov Herzog Institute for Advanced Jewish studies, Ein Tzurim. Lecturer in Jewish Thought and member of the educational steering committee
Matan- Women’s Institute for Torah Studies,Jerusalem. Lecturer in Jewish Philosophy
Experimental Shalom Hartman Highschool, Jerusalem
Teacher of Talmud and Jewish Thought and active member of the educational staff in charge of Jewish curriculum reform
Hechal Eliyahu Hesder Yeshiva,Jerusalem
Teacher of Talmud and Jewish Thought
HebrewUniversity,Jerusalem
Assistant Teacher to Professor Mendes-Flohr
HebrewUniversity,Jerusalem
Research Assistant to Professor Mendes-Flohr
HebrewUniversity, Jerusalem
Assistant Teacher to Professor Emil Fackenheim
Bnei Akiva Shaliach, Belgium

Additional public positions and activities

2001-2002Chief consultant for the establishment of a school based teacher education program in Boston, under the auspices of the Rabbi Soloveitchik Institute, Boston, USA.

2002Academic supervisor to a book edited by the Israeli Ministry of Education about “Love in Jewish thought”

2001-2003 Tutor of Jerusalem Fellows for Jewish educational leadership

2001-presentMember of the academic committee for the teaching of Jewish thought in state schools in Israel.

2001-present Member of the steering committee of the framework for contemporary Jewish identity, Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem.

2002-present Co founder of the Shira Hadasha congregation, Jerusalem

Academic Publications

Publications in Education

Philosophy of Religion and Jewish Teacher Education, Jewish Educational

Thought 2, Jerusalem 2000 (Hebrew), p. 53-88.

Conceptions of The Study of Jewish Texts in Teachers’ Professional

Development, Religious Education, Vol. 97, no.4, Fall 2002, p. 377-403.

Asynchronous Electronic learning and the Professional Development of Teacher

Educators: Preliminary Thoughts towards a University Based Research,

Educational Media International, Vol. 40, 2, p.253-261.

Teachers' Learning and the Investigation of Practice, Mekhkarei Morashtenu. (Hebrew), 2-3, 2004, p. 291-302.

5. Cultivating mentors’ reflection through the study of texts, (to appear in) a book

on reflection in teachers’ professional development, edited by Z. Mevarech.

Educational aspects of hermeneutical activity in text study, forthcoming

in J. Cohen and E. Holzer (eds), Modes of Educational Translation, Hebrew

University and Magnes Press, Jerusalem.

7. The concept of Second Naivete by Ernst Simon and Paul Ricoeur, forthcoming in

Languages and Literatures in Jewish Education, Studies in Honor of Michael

Rosenak, J. Cohen (ed.) & E. Holzer and A. Isaacs (Co-eds), HebrewUniversity

and Magnes Pres, Jerusalem, p. 325-344.

8. What Connects “Good” Teaching, Text Study and Hevruta Learning? A Conceptual

Argument, forthcoming in Journal of Jewish Education, 72, (2007), p. 1-22.

9. Ethical dispositions in Text Study, Journal of Moral Education, Vol. 36, 1, March

2007, p. 37-49. .

10. Existential vs. Hermeneutical Engagement with the Shoah: A Reply to Ari

Burzstein, forthcoming in J. Cohen and E. Holzer (eds), Modes of Educational

Translation, HebrewUniversity and Magnes Press, Jerusalem.

In review process

11. The Pedagogical Agency of Literary Texts, The Journal of Moral

Education

12. Listening to Significant Others in the Process of Text Interpretation: An instance

of Applied Hermeneutics, Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy

Book in preparation

Text Study and Hevruta Learning: Interpretive Practices for Educational Conversations.

Publications in Jewish Thought

1. The evolving meaning of the three oaths within religious Zionism, DAAT, a

Journal of Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah, Bar Ilan University, Israel 2001,

(Hebrew), p. 129-145.

2. The Use of Military Force in the Religious-Zionist Ideology of Rabbi Jacob

Reines and his Successors, Studies in Contemporary Jewry, Vol. 18, Oxford

University Press, New York, 2002, p. 74-94.

3. The use of Military Force in Religious-Zionist ideologies, forthcoming in a book

published in The Orthodox Forum series, YeshivaUniversity.

4. Rabbi Soloveitchik's hermeneutic theory: a critical discussion, forthcoming in a

book published by the Van Leer Institute and HebrewUniversity.

Book in preparation

“The Book and the Sword; on the use of military force in Religious Zionism”

(Hebrew).

Additional research and publication activities

* Co-editor of Languages and Literatures in Jewish Education, Studies in Honor of Michael Rosenak, forthcoming by Hebrew University and Magnes Press, Jerusalem.

* Co- editor of Modes of Educational Translation, forthcoming by HebrewUniversity and Magnes Press, Jerusalem.

Languages

Hebrew fluent

English fluent

French (mother tongue) fluent

Dutch excellent understanding

Scholarships and Awards:
Academic year 1990
Academic year 1991
Academic year 1992
Academic year 1993
Academic year 1994
Academic year 1995
Academic year 1997
Academic year 2004 / Scholarship granted by the HebrewUniversity
Scholarship granted by the HebrewUniversity
Research Scholarship granted by the Franz Rozenzweig Foundation
Award of excellence granted by the HebrewUniversity
Scholarship granted by the Marvin and Henri Hasenfeld Foundation
Scholarship granted by the HebrewUniversity
Award of excellence granted by the Center of Research on Political Radicalism and Judaism
Research Grant from the department of Gender studies, Bar-IlanUniversity