BIO

Dr.Stephen Hazan Arnoff

Dr. Stephen Hazan Arnoff has served as Executive Director of the 14th Street Y since 2007, overseeing a doubling of the size of the Y’s core programs and membership, major renovations throughout the building, and the founding of LABA: The National Laboratory for New Jewish Culture. Previously, he was Director of Artists Networks and Programming at the Makor/Steinhardt Center of the 92nd Street Y and Managing Editor of Zeek: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture (www.zeek.net). Stephen was a Wexner Graduate Fellow at the Jewish Theological Seminary (2000-04), where he is currently a doctoral candidate, earning an MA in Midrash and serving as Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of Talmud and Rabbinics as well as a Jerusalem Fellow (2005-07) at the Mandel Leadership Institute. Winner of a Rockower Jewish Press Award for Arts and Criticism, he publishes, lectures, and teaches on art, religion, music, and Jewish life widely.