Susan Perlman's Website

They didn't have many women sages in the shtetls of Europe. Of all the villages, Vaysechvoos had the only woman sage. She was also one of the only sages in the shtetl's anti-war movement.

Thursday, August 02, 1990

WHO'S WHO

Name: Susan Perlman

Date and Place of Birth:

  • December 29, 1950 in Beth El Hospital of Brooklyn, NY

Family:

  • Parents: The late Phil Perlman, Pearl Simonowitz Perlman
  • Sister: Sheila (married to Dave)
  • Sister: Pauline (married to Jock, son, Phil)

Positions:

  • First Assistant to the Executive Director-Jews for Jesus
  • Bible teacher at Spring Harvest conferences-UK, Jews for Jesus Ingatherings, U.S. & UK.
  • Presenter at Lausanne Consultation on Jewish Evangelism national and international conferences.
  • Editor of Issues: A Messianic Jewish Perspective
  • Coordinator of Jews for Jesus Secular Media campaigns
  • Former President, IFMA Board (Interdenominational Foreign Missions Association) Wheaton, IL
  • Editorial Board Member (Evangelical Missions Quarterly) Chicago,IL
  • Member of Council of Reference (Musalaha- Ministry of Reconciliation between Jews and Arabs), Jerusalem
  • Board Member—Jews for Jesus US & European boards
  • Board Member—Dallas Theological Seminary

Published:

  • Numerous Jews for Jesus booklets, broadsides and articles
  • Regular contributor to the Encounter With God series from Scripture Union in Britain.
  • Contributor to the Nelson Study Bible.
  • Articles in Christianity Today, Moody Monthly, Charisma
  • Interviewed by Sally Jesse Raphael, People Are Talking, New York Times, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Religion News Service, Boston Jewish Advocate, etc.

Academic Background and Important Recognitions:

  • Studied Communications at Hunter College in NYC
  • Came in second in a chopped liver contest.
  • Performed the weddings of both my sisters (June 1986, August 1996)

Jewish Background:

  • Grandparents are from the shtetls of Europe (my father's family was from Pinsk, my mother's family was from Minsk).
  • She had an ordinary New York Jewish experience growing up.

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