Contributor

Rabbi Carole B. Balin, Ph.D.

Professor of History, Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion

Rabbi Carole B. Balin, Ph.D. is a Professor of History at Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) and a co-curator of the “Bat Mitzvah Comes of Age” exhibit on view at the JCC of Manhattan. She became bat mitzvah on a Friday night in 1977; two years later, her mother did the same.