Curriculum Vitae
Positions held
1975-1980: Researcher, Belgian Foundation of Scientific Research
1980-1982: Theological secretary of the Ecclesiastical Province of Holland
1984-1989: Researcher, The Academy of Hebrew Language, Givat Ram, Jerusalem
1988-1992: Instructor, Ben Gurion University, Department of Jewish Thought
1989-1992: Instructor, Bar-Ilan University, Department of Philosophy
1992-1994: Lecturer, Bar-Ilan University, Department of Philosophy
1994-1998: Senior Lecturer, Bar-Ilan University, Department of Philosophy
1996-1998: Chair of the Department of Philosophy, Bar-Ilan University
1998: Associate Professor, Bar-Ilan University, Department of Philosophy
2000-2001: guest professor at Marc Bloch University, Strasbourg
June-July 2002: guest professor in the Faculty of Evangelic Theology, Universitaet Hamburg
2007-2008: guest professor at the Hochschule fuer Juedische Studien, Heidelberg
January-March 2008: guest professor, Phoenix, University of Arizona
July 2009, July 2010, July 2011, July 2012, July 2013, February and July 2014, February and July 2015, April until August 2016, Januar-Februar and June 2017: Levinas guest Professor for Jewish Dialogue Studies and Interreligious Theology at the Academy of World Religions, University of Hamburg
November 2011-October 2015: Chair of the Department of Jewish Philosophy, Bar-Ilan University
2013: full professor
August-December 2018: research fellow at the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton
For a few months in 2021 and 2022: fellow at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, Wallenberg Research Centre at Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Other academic functions
1995-2000: Resident scholar in the S. Hartman Institute, Jerusalem
1999-2000: Head of the Professional Committee for Philosophy, Israel Science Foundation
Member of the Jewish Studies Advisory Council at Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida
Member of the wissenschaftliche Beirat of the Academy World Religions in Dialogue, Hamburg University.
Member of the editorial board of the review “Judaism and Humanity”, Lifshiz College, Jerusalem.
Member of the international academic Advisory Board of the Martin Buber Yearbook Zwiegespraech – In Dialogue.
Member of the editorial board of the review "Da'at. A Journal of Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah ", Bar Ilan.
Member of the board of the international Rosenzweig Society
Regular Levinas guest professor at the Academy of World Religions, Hamburg University
President of the international Rosenzweig Society
Areas of specialization
Modern Jewish thought
Contemporary Jewish thought
---------
Rosenzweig's philosophy
Buber's and Heschel's Jewish thought
Jewish existentialism and Jewish dialogical philosophy
Levinas's Jewish writings and ethical metaphysics
Jewish thought on the Shoa
----------
Interreligious theology
Education
1967-1972: Sciences of Religion, Louvain University, BA and MA
1972-1975: Biblical Philology, Louvain University, BA and MA
1972-1975: Theology, Louvain University, BA and MA
1979: Theology, Louvain University, PhD
Personal data
1949 Born in Belgium
1971 Marriage (father of five children, grandfather of five grandchildren)
1983 Immigration to Israel