Lisa Grant

Rabbi Lisa D. Grant, Ph.D. is Rabbinical School Program Director and Professor of Jewish Education at the Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion in New York. Her research and teaching interests focus on adult Jewish learning, Jewish leadership development, and the place of Israel in American Jewish life. In addition to numerous articles, book chapters, and curriculum guides, Lisa is co-author with Ezra Kopelowitz of Israel Education Matters: A 21st Century Paradigm for Jewish Education (Center for Jewish Peoplehood Education: 2012). She is also co-editor of the International Handbook of Jewish Education (Springer: 2011) with Helena Miller and Alex Pomson, and with Diane T. Schuster, Meredith Woocher, and Steven M. Cohen, A Journey of Heart and Mind: Transformative Jewish Learning in Adulthood (JTS Press, 2004). Lisa has been on the faculty of HUC-JIR since 2000. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, a Ph.D. from the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, and Rabbinic ordination from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. She is happily married to Billy Weitzer and the proud mother of two adult children.