Isaac Kofsky ’27 joins Gilda Slifka Internship Program at Hadassah-Brandeis Institute

Isaac Kofsky ’27 was announced as a member of this summer’s Gilda Slifka Internship Program by the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute (HBI).

HBI’s Gilda Slifka interns complete original research related to the HBI mission of “fresh thinking about Jews and gender worldwide” and support the work of scholars affiliated with HBI and Brandeis University.

Isaac Kofsky (he/him) is a rising senior at Carleton College from Westfield, NJ. He is pursuing a degree in Religion with a minor in Medieval and Renaissance Studies and hopes to attend rabbinical school after college. He has a strong interest in Biblical and Talmud studies and has a background in both the academic and lived practice of Judaism. Outside of the classroom, Kofsky is editor-in-chief of his college’s newspaper, works for his college’s Chaplain’s Office, and is a student leader for Carleton’s Interfaith Social Action group, which focuses on fighting food insecurity, expanding local transportation, and providing needed support to immigrant families in the wake of Operation Metro Surge. This summer, Kofsky is working with Deirdre Butler, Associate Professor of Religion at Carleton University (not the same as Carleton College!) on her project Troubling Orthopraxy: Jewish Divorce in Canada. His personal project will focus on the ways in which trans and nonbinary Jews have innovated or created liturgy over the past two decades, and what those changes can say about meaning-making and sacred ritual for queer Jewish communities.

Read the full announcement to meet all of this summer’s interns.