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The Mandel Foundation-Israel and the Mandel Leadership Institute congratulate our colleague
Prof. Sam Wineburg
on his confirmation as Margaret Jacks Professor of Education at Stanford University
 Sam Wineburg is the Margaret Jacks Professor of Education and Professor of History (by courtesy) at Stanford University. His work stands at the interdisciplinary crossroads of education, cognitive science, and history. He studied religion and history at Brown and Berkeley, writing an honors thesis on Sefer Hasidim with Danny Matt in 1982. He went on to teach in public and Jewish schools, and in 1989 completed a doctorate in Psychological Studies in Education at Stanford. He spent the next twelve years at the University of Washington, where he was Professor, Cognitive Studies in Education, and Adjunct Professor, Department of History. For his sabbatical in 1997-98 he spent the year in Metulla (Israel), while serving as Visiting Professor at the University of Haifa. His book, Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past won the 2001 Frederic W. Ness Award from the Association of American Colleges and Universities for work that makes the most important contribution to the “improvement of Liberal Education and understanding the Liberal Arts.”
The Mandel Foundation-Israel and the Mandel Leadership Institute congratulate our Faculty Member
Prof. Moshe Halbertal
on his appointment as a memeber of The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
 Prof. Halbertal is a Professor of Jewish Thought and Philosophy at the Hebrew University, a member of The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and a fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute and. He received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University in 1989, and from 1988-1992 he was a fellow at the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. He has served as a visiting Professor at Harvard Law School at University of Pennsylvania Law School and at NYU Law School. Halbertal is the author of the books “Idolatry” (co authored with Avishai Margalit) and “People of the Book: Canon, Meaning and Authority”, both published by Harvard University Press. He has also authored “Interpretative Revolutions in the Making”, and “Between Torah and Wisdom: R. Menachem ha-Meiri and The Maimonidean Halakhists in Provence”, both published in Hebrew by Magnes Press. His last book published in Hebrew is “Concealment and Revelation: The Secret and its Boundaries in Medieval Jewish Thought” (Yeriot, 2001). Moshe Halbertal is the recipient of the Bruno Award of the Rothschild foundation, and the Goren Goldstein award for the best book in Jewish Thought in the years 1997-2000.
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