YALE UNIVERSITY - Key Persons
Daniel Maggen is a J.S.D. candidate at Yale Law School, where he also earned an LL.M. degree. Prior to coming to Yale in 2012, he served as a Senior Law Clerk to the Honorable J. Salim Joubran of the Supreme Court of Israel. Daniel also holds an LL.M. degree from Tel Aviv University, as well as an LL.B. degree and a B.A. degree in History.
Daniel's main areas of interest are legal philosophy, intellectual history, and criminal law theory, writing his dissertation on the subject of toleration.
Job Titles:
- Coordinator of the Modern Hebrew Program at Yale
- Member of the Yale
Ms. Ayala Dvoretzky is the Coordinator of the Modern Hebrew Program at Yale.
Ms. Dvoretzky has taught numerous courses in Modern Hebrew language and is the recipient of the 1993 Yale College Excellence in Teaching Prize. Since her arrival at Yale in 1985, she has developed and taught a variety of courses, ranging from Introductory to Advanced and Upper levels of Modern Hebrew. In response to the needs of the developing Hebrew Program, she has created courses in Israeli literature, film, culture, and identity and gender. She has also been extensively involved in teaching Directed Reading courses.
Among her academic interests are the incorporation of media and especially film into the instruction of language, as well as the use of popular music as a pedagogical tool for in-class cultural exposure. Currently she is creating and developing a web-based picture dictionary for Elementary Modern Hebrew, as well as an advanced level, on-line multi-media reading module about Ethiopian immigration to Israel. Ms. Dvoretzky is also interested in post-Holocaust reactions of the Israeli society, as reflected in literature and film.
Ms. Dvoretzky is an active member of the Yale community and contributes regularly to pedagogical events on campus, as well as community-wide activities. She regularly attends and participates in national and international professional meetings.
Job Titles:
- Professional School Student
Naama Omri is a J.S.D. candidate at Yale Law School, where she also earned an LL.M. degree in 2016. Prior to coming to Yale, she served as a Law Clerk to the Honorable Justice Edna Arbel, the Honorable Justice Salim Joubran, and the Honorable Justice Menachem Mazuz of the Supreme Court of Israel. She also holds an LL.B degree from Tel Aviv University.
Naama's main areas of interest are public international law and human rights law, and she is writing her dissertation on the responsibilities of the international community in cases of severe depravations of human rights.
Orit Yeret is a new faculty member teaching Modern Hebrew. Born and raised in Israel, she received her M.A. in Comparative Literature & Creative Writing from the University of Haifa. Following that she became certified to teach Hebrew as a second language (Hebrew College, Boston) and taught at Bard College, NY and at Vanderbilt University, TN. Yeret also serves as a committee member for the SAT subject test in Modern Hebrew, appointed by the College Board.
A key component of Orit's work is utilizing digital tools for language teaching. She does so by designing tasks that use online games, applications, class blogs, animated clips and much more. Her engagement with the various tools is always in an effort to enhance learning and develop a modern approach towards second language acquisition.
As a teacher and a writer Orit finds a profound interest in the never-ending flow of the Hebrew language. She integrates different teaching techniques, which in turn encourage individual thought and a thirst for knowledge. She finds great satisfaction in creating, and shares her love for the arts with her students.
Shiri Goren (B.A., Magna cum Laude, Tel Aviv University, 2001; M. Phil. New York University, 2007; PhD, New York University, 2011) is a Senior Lector II and the Director of the Modern Hebrew Program. She joined the Yale faculty in 2006.
Her areas of specialization include modern Hebrew language and literature, Israeli culture, media and film studies and gender theory. She is also active in the field of Hebrew teaching, working on several projects on the intersection of language pedagogy and digital humanity. She is an ACTFL OPI (Oral Proficiency interview) Tester of Hebrew with full certification, 2016-2020, and a member of the Yale Language Study Committee. Goren is also a member of the Executive Steering Committee of the National Association of Professors of Hebrew and is an elected senator of the inaugural Faculty of Arts and Sciences Senate at Yale.
She is the co-editor of Choosing Yiddish: New Frontiers of Language and Culture (Wayne State University Press, 2013) which highlights a new generation of scholars revitalizing the field of Yiddish Studies. The book includes her essay on the last work of (Yiddish) prose by Hebrew author David Vogel. Her current book project, Creative Resistance: Literary Interventions in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, explores how violence affects real and imagined spaces in Israel of recent years. The book focuses on novels by the writers Orly Castel-Bloom, Gabriella Avigur-Rotem, Ronit Matalon, and Sayed Kashua, as well as other cultural productions such as films, documentaries and TV series. Another project she works on focuses on the pedagogy of teaching the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in north-American universities.
Among the courses she teaches are: Israeli Society in Film [Hebrew]; Israeli Identity and Culture: 1948 to the Present [English]; Dynamics of Israeli Culture [Hebrew]; Conversational Hebrew: Israeli Media; Israeli Narratives [English]; as well as Hebrew language courses (Elementary, Intermediate and Advanced).
Goren has recently received grants from The Center for Language Study (IIG 2016) A. Whitney Griswold Faculty Research Fund (2012-2014), and the Council on Middle East Studies at Yale University.
Before coming to the United States, she was a journalist and senior editor of news magazines on Israeli television and radio.