Alan Mittleman

Alan Mittleman (born 1953) is a professor of Jewish Philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.

Education

Mittleman received his BA from Brandeis University and his MA and PhD from Temple University.

Career

From 1984 to 1988, Mittleman served on the staff of the American Jewish Committee. He helped to draft a resolution by the United Church of Christ which made it the first Protestant denomination in the United States to declare that Christianity did not supersede Judaism.

Mittleman went on to serve as a professor of Religion at Muhlenberg College from 1988 to 2004. He was the head of the Muhlenberg College Religion Department from 1997-2003.

From 2000 until 2004, he was also the director of a major research project on "Jews and the American Public Square" initiated by the Pew Charitable Trusts.

In 2004, Mittleman became Professor of Jewish Philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTS). In 2007, he served as Visiting Professor of Religion at Princeton University, and in that same year he became Chair of the Department of Jewish Thought at JTS.