Biography
Dr. Ruth N. Sandberg is the Leonard and Ethel Landau Professor of Rabbinics at Gratz College, and is the Director of the BA in Jewish Studies and Jewish Professional Studies and the MA in Interfaith Leadership. She is is a member of the board of Directors of the Insitute for Jewish-Catholic Relations at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia, and served three years as the co-President of the Cheltenham Area Multifaith Council, a local organization that promotes interfaith understanding. Dr. Sandberg is also on the Board of the CCJR (Council of Centers for Jewish-Christian Relations), a national organization that promotes academic research, as well as Jewish-Christian dialogue. Dr. Sandberg also teaches in the Gratz College Scholars Program for Adult Education. From 2006 to 2008, she served as Dean of Students at Gratz. Before coming to Gratz, Dr. Sandberg served for five years as a Rabbi and Director of Education at Reform Congregation Kenesth Israel in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania.
Dr. Sandberg received her BA in Classical Greek and History of Religion from Bryn Mawr College; Rabinical Ordination from the Reconstructionist Rabinical College; and a Ph.D. in Post-Biblical Hebrew Literature, specializing in Rabbinics, form the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Sandberg's areas of special interst include: the relationship between Rabbinic Judaism and early Christianity; Jewish-Christian relations; Interfaith Studies; early Rabbinic midrash; classical Rabbinic theology, and the process of Jewish law.