Rabbi Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus
Rabbi Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus is a Professor of Religion and Coordinator of Jewish Studies at Wheaton College (MA). There he is also the faculty advisor to Wheaton Hillel, Jewish Life House, and Farm House. In addition to holding a Ph.D. in Religious Studies (New Testament) from Vanderbilt, he received his ordination from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. He teaches and writes about meals and religion, He has published numerous articles on ancient, medieval, and modern Jewish food. His book on Jewish food and identity, Culinary Midrash: What Makes Jewish Food; What Makes Food Jewish? is forthcoming. He translated Rabbenu Bahya ben Asher’s 14th century Hebrew mystical manual on food, Shulhan Shel Arba (Table of Four) into English. For the next two years he will co-chair the Wheaton Interdisciplinary Institute in the Humanities with his colleague and playwright Charlotte Meehan in the English and Theatre Department, focused on the topic of Interpretation and Its Expressive Modes in the arts, religions, and secular cultures
Rabbi Brumberg-Kraus lives in Providence with his wife, Maia, and has two grown children, Zoya and Max. He cooks, ferments, gardens, performs holiday and life cycle rituals, and teaches, and is often lucky enough to get to combine them all. For more than twenty years he has taught a First Year Seminar at Wheaton College on “The Rituals of Dinner,” which has been a kind of lab in which he has learned much from his students and colleagues about how to put the theories into practice about the friend-making power of food to make and sustain meaningful and ethical communities.
http://wheatoncollege.edu/faculty/profiles/jonathan-brumberg-kraus/
Rabbi Brumberg-Kraus lives in Providence with his wife, Maia, and has two grown children, Zoya and Max. He cooks, ferments, gardens, performs holiday and life cycle rituals, and teaches, and is often lucky enough to get to combine them all. For more than twenty years he has taught a First Year Seminar at Wheaton College on “The Rituals of Dinner,” which has been a kind of lab in which he has learned much from his students and colleagues about how to put the theories into practice about the friend-making power of food to make and sustain meaningful and ethical communities.
http://wheatoncollege.edu/faculty/profiles/jonathan-brumberg-kraus/
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