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Barbara Lerner Spectre is the Founding Director of Paideia, the European Institute of Jewish Studies in Sweden, an academic institute established in 2001 through a grant of the Swedish Government that serves as a resource and stimulus for the renewal of European Jewish culture. She was formerly on the faculty of the Shalom Hartman Institute of Jerusalem, where she taught Jewish Thought, the Melton Center of the Hebrew University, and Yellin College of Education. Her area of research is Models of Response to the Holocaust in Christian and Jewish Theology. Her publications include: “A Theology of Doubt” (Hebrew) and, together with Noam Zion of the Hartman Institute, the two volume: “A Different Light: The Hanukkah Book of Celebration”. She is the recipient of the 2007 Max Fisher Prize for Jewish Education in the Diaspora, and the ICRF “2008 Women in Action” award.

 

Noa Hermele is the Deputy Director of Paideia and heads the One Year Jewish Studies Program. Noa is currently completing a Master in Educational Management. He holds an MA in mathematics from the University of Stockholm and has done a Master’s program in philosophy at Sorbonne Paris 1. Noa also completed a two-year art education at the Stockholm School of Printmaking Arts.

Noa worked at several Jewish summer camps and taught in the Hebrew Sunday school as well as in the Jewish day school in Stockholm. Noa has created and conducted leadership programs for young adults in the Jewish community. He was part of the founding group for the Network of Multi-religious Guides in Sweden and worked both as a guide and as a guide trainer for the interfaith exhibition “God has 99 Names”.

 

Frida Schatz is Hebrew lecturer and Dean of Students at Paideia. She has taught Hebrew at the Ulpan of Hebrew University in Jerusalem and worked as a Senior Lecturer teaching Hebrew at the Institute for Near Eastern Studies at the University of Copenhagen and at the Department of Middle East Languages at the University of Lund and at Stockholm University.