Sylvia Barack Fishman, Ph.D., is the Joseph and Esther Foster Professor of Contemporary Jewish Life, Emerita, at Brandeis University. The author of eight books and numerous articles, she received the Marshall Sklare Award for distinguished social scientific publications from the ASSJ in 2014. Currently, she writes the annual survey of “American Jews and the Domestic Arena” for the American Jewish Year Book, chairs the Research Task Force for the Orthodox Women’s Torah Leadership Project, serves on the Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI) Advisory Committee for Jewish Identity, and is a longtime member of the Jofa board.
