Dr. Naomi Seidman, Koret Professor of Jewish Culture at the GTU’s Center for Jewish Studies, has been awarded the inaugural Borsch-Rast Book Prize and Lectureship for her 2016 book, The Marriage Plot. The newly established Borsch-Rast Prize includes an award of $10,000 and is designed to encourage innovative and creative theological scholarship by GTU graduates and current faculty. Dr. Kathryn Barush received was an honorable mention for her book, Art and the Sacred Journey in Britain, 1790-1850.
