The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program recently announced that Dafna Ben-Yosef has been chosen as the new director of Jewish Lifelong Learning.
Ben-Yosef earned her master’s degree in bioethics from The Ohio State University and her PhD in medical sciences from The Technion Institute of Technology in Israel. She also earned a Bachelor and Master of Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Ben-Yosef has held a number of academic and administrative positions in both Israel and the United States. Most recently, she has been a faculty member (part-time) at John Carroll University in the Department of Theology, where she teaches religious aspects of healthcare ethics. For the last three years, Ben-Yosef was a science, Hebrew and Judaic studies instructor at the Mandel Jewish Day School in Beachwood.