Saul Kaiserman, RJE (he/him/הוא) is Founding Director of Lifelong Learning and Scholar in Residence at Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York. In 2013, Mr. Kaiserman was inducted by Hazon into its “If Not Now Society” as a “Visionary Leader in Jewish Life and Learning;” in 2019 he was recognized as a “Distinguished Jewish Educator” by the Association of Reform Jewish Educators (ARJE). Mr. Kaiserman is currently writing his dissertation at the Davidson School of Education of the Jewish Theological Seminary, where he is a doctoral fellow in the Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education and where he received his Master of Arts in 1999.
Saul is a board member of the Jewish Education Project, and in the summer of 2020 was interviewed for its podcast, Adapting: The Future of Jewish Education. He serves as adjunct faculty in the School of Education of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) and as a mentor for the Educational Leadership Program of the Mandel Institute for Nonprofit Leadership. In July of 2020, he was an all-star songleader for the Union for Reform Judaism’s Campfire on Tour summer concert series. He is a native New Yorker and lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan with his wife, Elizabeth Freirich, and their daughters, Jory and Zeva. Videos of Saul’s performances and work are on his YouTube Channel.
