Rachel Schulder Abrams Pear

Rachel S.A. Pear is a fellow at the University of Haifa’s Center for Jewish and Democratic Education where she is the research coordinator of the Templeton World Charity Foundation funded project “Dialogue in Science and Religious Education” that explores the teaching of religious and scientific perspectives on origins in Israeli Jewish, Muslim and Christian schools. She additionally co-teaches the first continuing education course for teachers on Judaism and evolution in Israel through Herzog College of Education. Pear received an A.B. from Columbia College, an M.A. in prehistoric archaeology from Hebrew University, and a Ph.D. from Bar-Ilan University within the graduate program on science, technology and society, where her dissertation examined changes in Jewish American engagement with evolution over the course of the 20th century.