Keren McGinity

I am the first Interfaith Specialist at the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, the umbrella organization of over 500 congregations across North America. I am also a research associate at the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute at Brandeis University, where I've taught American Studies. Previously, I was the inaugural director of the Interfaith Families Jewish Engagement graduate program at Hebrew College. My pioneering books, Still Jewish: A History of Women & Intermarriage in America (NYU Press 2009), a National Jewish Book Award Finalist, and Marrying Out: Jewish Men, Intermarriage, and Fatherhood (Indiana University Press 2014), provided groundbreaking analyses about Jewish continuity by focusing on gender and change over time. My advice & opinions have appeared in the Forward, Lilith & Moment magazines, the New York Jewish Week, RitualWell, Sh’ma, the Times of Israel & eJewishPhilanthropy. I earned a PhD in History from Brown University and was the Mandell L. Berman Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Contemporary American Jewish Life at the University of Michigan’s Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. I am a 2018 Forward 50 honoree for my clarion call for a Jewish response to the #MeToo movement, named on Lilith magazine’s “7 Jewish Feminist Highlights of 2018” list and was a JewishBoston “Top Pick.” My new book is #UsToo: How Jewish, Muslim, and Christian Women Changed Our Communities (Routledge 2023). I served as an Ombud on the Committee on Sexual Misconduct of the Association for Jewish Studies and as a Board Member of the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry. I currently serve on the Academic Advisory Council of the Jewish Women’s Archive and on the Advisory Board of Global Jewry. When not roughing it in the woods of Maine, I live in Brookline, MA. To learn more, visit my professional website: https://loveandtradition.org/