Faculty and Staff - Behavioral Sciences (B.A)

Daniel J.N. Weishut, PsyD, MBA, is a Clinical Psychologist, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Work and Staff Member in the Office for the Promotion of Teaching Quality at Hadassah Academic College. At the Department, he fulfills the functions of Group Work Coordinator, Student Counsellor for Ultra-Orthodox Students, Coordinator Project for the Advance of Arab Students, and Erasmus+ Coordinator. Furthermore, he is Co-Editor of Mikbatz – the Israel Journal of Group Psychotherapy and publishes about interpersonal, group, and organizational encounters. He has a private practice and is active in organizations for social change.

Professor of Sociology, Ph.D. Hebrew University, Emeritus at Rowan University (Glassboro, NJ, USA), editor-in-chief of Contemporary Jewry, co-P.I. of NSF RED grant to advance diversity of engineering, 2019 Marshall Sklare awardee, 2019 College of Humanities and Social Sciences Senior Research Award Rowan University. Published widely in fields of gender, family, Jewish identity. 

Rachel Werczberger is a sociologist and anthropologist of religion specialising in the study of contemporary Judaism, New Age spiritualities and New Religious movements. She received her PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Jewish philosophy in Ben Gurion University in the Negev and in the Katz Centre for Advance Jewish studied at UPenn. Her book Jews in the age of authenticity: Jewish spiritual renewal, published in 2016 by Peter Lang, is an ethnography of two Jewish New Age communities that were active in Israel in the beginning of the 20th century. In addition, she published numerous paper and articles in academic journals and edited volumes in Hebrew and English.