Chaim I. Waxman is Professor and Founding Chair of the Behavioral Science Department at Hadassah Academic College, in Jerusalem, and Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Jewish Studies at Rutgers University. He specializes in the sociology of religion and the sociology of ethnicity with special focus on American Jews, Jews in Israel, Jewish immigration to Israel, and global Jewish identity and identification.

He has written more than 100 scholarly articles and is the author and/or editor of more than a dozen books, including, Jewish Baby Boomers: A Communal Perspective (2001), American Aliya: Portrait of an Innovative Migration Movement (1989), and America’s Jews in Transition(1983). His most recent book is Social Change and Halakhic Evolution in American Orthodoxy(2017). He made Aliyah in 2002.