Dr. Ali Botein-Furrevig is a tenured English Professor

at Ocean County College in Toms River, New Jersey.

She developed and teaches courses in Jewish Studies

and speaks throughout New Jersey and New York

about Jewish history and culture.

Dr. Botein-Furrevig serves as Director of the OCC

Center for Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights

Education and coordinates college educational

outreach programs for the Lakewood, NJ Orthodox

Community. She is also an accomplished artist and

oil painter.

Dr. Botein-Furrevig is the author of two award

winning books: Heart of the Stranger: A Portrait of

Lakewood's Orthodox Community and Last Waltz on

the Danube: The Ethnic German Genocide in History

and Memory 1944-1948.