Our Experts

Laurence Kotler-Berkowitz, PhD, is an independent researcher specializing in US Jews and Jewish communities.

Sociologist/social psychologist of religion, education, race/ethnicity, demography, and contemporary Jewish life.

Dr. Benor, Vice Provost and Professor at Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles, received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in Linguistics. She has written several books and many articles about American Jewish language and culture.

Professor Emeritus, Rowan University, Glassboro NJ. Editor-in-chief, Contemporary Jewry. 2019 Marshall Sklare Awardee. Currently editing book comparing Jewish families throughout the Jewish world and writing a monograph on the American Jewish Family.

President of the ASSJ.
Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Co-editor of the Book Series Jewish Identities in a Changing World and the Encyclopedia of Latin American Jews, Brill.

Dani Kranz is DAAD Humboldt Chair at Colegio de Mexico, Mexico City, and an applied anthropologist and director of Two Foxes Consulting, Germany and Israel.

Ira M. Sheskin, Ph.D., is the Director of the Jewish Demography Project of the Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies at the University of Miami and Professor in the Department of Geography. He is a co-editor of the American Jewish Year Book.

Research fellow at The Institute for Immigration and Social Integration, Ruppin Academic Center. His areas of research include transnational migration, Jewish migration, philanthropy, and political poetry.

Nadia Beider is a Lecturer at the Melton Centre for Jewish Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Fellow at the Jewish People Policy Institute.

Adina Bankier-Karp, Ph.D., is Associate Editor of Contemporary Jewry and a Research Affiliate at Monash University’s Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation. Her research explores Jewish identity, education, and community engagement.

Daniel Staetsky is a demographer and a statistician. He has researched and written extensively in demography of Jews in Israel, the Jewish Diaspora and the Middle East.

religious streams in the 19th and 20th centuries, popular religion, sermons, and homiletic literature.

Perla Aizencang-Kane holds degrees in Sociology (UBA), Political Science (HUJI), and a Ph.D. in Social Sciences (UNAM). Her research explores migration, diaspora, identity, and transnationalism through interdisciplinary frameworks.

Kenneth D. Wald, a political scientist at the University of Florida, studies and teaches about religion in political life. His recent work examines American Jewish political behavior.

Dr. Horwitz examines how people’s religious upbringing, their social class, race, ethnicity, and gender shape their educational journeys. Dr. Horwitz's research combines quantitative and qualitative methods.

Yael Siman holds a Master’s and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago. She is a full-time Research Professor in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Iberoamericana University in Mexico City.

Jonathan Boyd is a social scientist and policy analyst specializing in contemporary Jewish life. He is an Honorary Research Fellow at University College London, and the Executive Director of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research (JPR).

Joshua Comenetz, PhD, is a demographics and strategic planning consultant with 30 years of experience in Jewish/religious population estimates and geography, American and international population research, management, and mapping.

Joanne Strasser is a Postgraduate Fellow at the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and a Ph.D. candidate at Gratz College. Her research advances a model of antisemitism as a durable interpretive system shaping public life.