Wikipedia's first sentence called it “head of the jewish studies department at yeshiva college”. Today it says “american academic”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “American author and academic”. It now reads “American author and academic Rabbi”.
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American author and academic For other people with the same name, see David Berger (disambiguation) . David Berger (born 1943) is an American academic, dean emeritus of Yeshiva University 's Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies , as well as chair of Yeshiva College's Jewish Studies department. He is the author of various books and essays on medieval Jewish apologetics and polemics, as well as having edited the modern critical edition of the medieval polemic text Nizzahon Vetus . Outside academic circles he is best known for The Rebbe, the Messiah, and the Scandal of Orthodox Indifference , a criticism of Chabad messianism .
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David Berger is head of the Jewish Studies department at Yeshiva College, Yeshiva University, as well as dean of Yeshiva University 's Bernard Revel Graduate School . He is the author of The Rebbe, the Messiah, and the Scandal of Orthodox Indifference and "The Jewish Christian Debate in the High Middle Ages- A Critical Edition of the Nizzahon Vetus".
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David Berger is an American academic, dean of Yeshiva University 's Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies , as well as chair of Yeshiva College's Jewish Studies department.He is the author of various books and essays on medieval Jewish apologetics and polemics, as well as having edited the modern critical edition of the medieval polemic text Nizzahon Vetus .Outside academic circles he is best known for The Rebbe, the Messiah, and the Scandal of Orthodox Indifference , a criticism of Chabad messianism .
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David Berger is an American academic, dean of Yeshiva University 's Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies , as well as chair of Yeshiva College's Jewish Studies department. He is the author of various books and essays on medieval Jewish apologetics and polemics, as well as having edited the modern critical edition of the medieval polemic text Nizzahon Vetus . Outside academic circles he is best known for The Rebbe, the Messiah, and the Scandal of Orthodox Indifference , a criticism of Chabad messianism .
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American author and academic For other people with the same name, see David Berger (disambiguation) . David Berger (born 1943) is an American academic, dean of Yeshiva University 's Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies , as well as chair of Yeshiva College's Jewish Studies department. He is the author of various books and essays on medieval Jewish apologetics and polemics, as well as having edited the modern critical edition of the medieval polemic text Nizzahon Vetus . Outside academic circles he is best known for The Rebbe, the Messiah, and the Scandal of Orthodox Indifference , a criticism of Chabad messianism .
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head of the jewish studies department at yeshiva college
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american academic
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