Board Certified Chaplain: Association of Professional Chaplains 2007

Certified Jewish Chaplain: National Association of Jewish Chaplains 1998

Four courses in Clinical Pastoral Education Denver, Colorado, USA, 1995-1997

Ph.D. University of Birmingham England, 1977
Dissertation: The Rabbi in Anglo-American Fiction and Sociology, 1950-1976

M.A.H.L. Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, 1970
Dissertation: Malamud (Bernard Malamud as Jewish Writer)

Ordination Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, 1970

B.A. San Jose State University San Jose, California, USA, 1964