Background
Barbara Spectre was born in Madison, Wisconsin, and educated in New York City.
Barbara Spectre was born in Madison, Wisconsin, and educated in New York City.
Bachelor of Arts Barnard College, Columbia University, Philosophy
Master of Arts New York University, Philosophy, Thesis: “The Paradigm Case and Non-Vacuous Contrast Arguments”
Doctor of Philosophy Candidate, Bar-Ilan University, Philosophy, “Models of Theological Response to the Holocaust in Christian and Jewish Thought”.
After moving to Jerusalem in 1982, she served on the faculty of the Shalom Hartman Institute of Jerusalem, the Melton Center of the Hebrew University, and Yellin College of where she was cited as Outstanding Lecturer 1995- 1997. She was the founding chairperson of the Schechter Institute in Jerusalem in 1984. She served as a scholar in residence for the United Synagogues, Midwest Regions in 1987, 1990, 1992, 1996 and has lectured extensively throughout the United States.
In its 10 years of existence (2011) Paideia has educated over 200 persons from 35 countries for leadership positions in the renewal of Jewish culture in Europe.
A 2010 interview with Israeli International Business Alliance News has gained wide attention on the internet, especially in far right circles. The interview has been widely dispersed through YouTube and other social media, in which Spectre says: Europe has not yet learned how to be multicultural.
And I think we are going to be part of the throes of that transformation, which must take place. Europe is not going to be the monolithic societies that they once were in the last century.
Jews are going to be at the center of that.
lieutenant’s a huge transformation for Europe to make. They are now going into a multicultural mode, and Jews will be resented because of our leading role. But without that leading role, and without that transformation, Europe will not survive.
