Born in 1946, in Bronx, NYC (0- 4 yrs old); bred in Dallas, Texas (6-17.5 yrs old), learning and teaching in Jerusalem over the past 45 years (since 1969). Am married for forty-three years to Orna. She is a Sabra – native-born Israeli. Presently retired , she was a master teacher and teacher-trainer of art history and appreciation, as well as a lover and writer of poetry. Her 2nd book of Hebrew poetry was recently published. Orna and I are the proud parents of three boys, presently aged 32 (Amit, a musician – drummer and vibraphonist,), 37 (Avinoam, a ballet dancer in the National ballet of Canada, in Toronto) and 39 (Netanel, a Hebrew-Arabic translator, a poet and PHd candidate). Since 2008 we have been blessed with four grand-children, three boys (aged 5, 2, and 3 months, and one girl, aged 4).

All my academic degrees were earned at the Hebrew university, Jerusalem: BA in history and philosophy, MA in Modern Jewish social-intellectual and cultural history; PhD on the cultural-educational history, ideology and educational work of the religious kibbutz movement’s cultural-educational leadership, from 1945-1995;

Previous to my retirement in October, 2014, I was a member of the Melton Centre for Jewish Education academic faculty in the School of Education of the Hebrew university for 45 years; I taught BA and mainly MA courses on topics related to my two main fields of research and writing: i) Competing Contemporary visions of Jewish existence, culture and education, and their translation into educational frameworks, programs and practices; ii) Philosophy and theory of education and curriculum, with special emphasis on humanist, progressive, radical, moral educational trends. A book I penned in Hebrew on Janush Korczak’s educational philosophy and pedagogy was published by the Mofet institute of Israel in 2012. Am presently working on an English version of this book entitled: A Pedagogy of Humanist Moral Education: The Educational Thought of Janusz Korczak which will be published by Palgrave-Macmillan sometime in 2017.

My “world”-orientation is panentheistic (“God is the Place of the world, but the World is not this Being's Place”). I am not affiliated with and do not belong to any contemporary Jewish religious movement/community/synagogue. I feel strongest kinship with the more radically open, existential religious and artistic, and politically-socially engaged trends within the reform and Reconstructionist movements. The ethos I aspire to realize in my life is encapsulated in the motto: “Nothing human and nothing Jewish is alien to me".