President's Message

From the President

Hebrew College is celebrating 90 years of leadership in Jewish education. As we enter our 10th decade, we are building upon the rich legacy of Hebrew College’s past with a renewed energy and vision for the future.

Innovation, creativity and bold leadership will characterize our sacred work to bring Jewish education into the global era. We remain fully focused on our dual commitment: the highest-quality community education for youth and adults as well as rigorous graduate-level Jewish education to prepare a new generation of leaders, teachers and scholars.

New programs and educational opportunities will leverage the digital technologies that have revolutionized and expanded learning across the globe. Founded in 1921 to train teachers for a new paradigm in Jewish education, Hebrew College is now a leader for 21st century Jewish education, engaging the complexities of Jewish life and thought with pedagogic sophistication.

This website is your portal into our Jewish learning community. We hope that you’ll have an easy time finding answers to your questions about our vast range of educational opportunities, as well as connections to the faculty and staff who can help you find the right match for your particular area of interest.

The website also represents our understanding of the need to leverage technology in service to the global Jewish community. As we expand our range of online degree and certificate programs, courses and new online learning modalities, we hope to make high quality Jewish education accessible to anyone who can tap into the Internet. In that sense, we hope to take Hebrew College’s pluralistic legacy to the next level — and welcome a world of students to join our conversation.

B’shalom,

Rabbi Daniel L. Lehmann

About President Daniel L. Lehmann

Rabbi Daniel L. Lehmann is a Jewish innovator who has devoted his career to pluralistic Jewish education. On July 1, 2008, he became the eighth president of Hebrew College, one of the leading institutions of Jewish learning in the United States.

Lehmann has rabbinical ordination from Yeshiva University, where he also received an undergraduate degree majoring in philosophy. He has done graduate work in Jewish studies and education at both New York University and the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University, and was a research fellow in Jewish education at Brandeis University.

Prior to coming to Hebrew College, Lehmann served as the founding headmaster of Gann Academy-The New Jewish High School of Greater Boston. He was the founding director of The Berkshire Institute for Music and Arts, a three-week summer-camp program devoted to music and cultural expression. His two decades as a Jewish educator have included roles as rabbi and upper-school principal at Beth Tfiloh Community Day School and Congregation in Pikesville, Md.

A frequent lecturer on Jewish education, religious pluralism and interfaith learning, Lehmann has published numerous journal articles and contributed several chapters in books on religious education and interfaith learning. He has led training programs for Jewish day-school educators and leaders at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, where he also participated in the institute’s international theological conferences.

He was a participant in the Catholic-Jewish Colloquium and the project on Educating for Religious Particularism and Pluralism. In 2001, he received the Covenant Foundation Award for Excellence in Jewish Education and the Dr. Benjamin Shevach award from Hebrew College for his outstanding contribution to Jewish educational leadership,

Lehmann is married to Dr. Lisa Soleymani Lehmann, director of the Center for Bioethics and a primary-care physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, as well as a member of the Harvard Medical School faculty. The Lehmanns have three children: Hillel, Eliyahu and Shira.

We invite you to learn about our educational programs here.