Professor Menachem Rosensaft
Explore how Nazi law reflected wider international attitudes towards race and discrimination.
Professor Shai Davidai
This session looks at the rise of a new type of ideological antisemitism, its genesis and how best to confront it.
Dr. Laura Shaw Frank
Using fascinating historical documents, take a journey into a part of American history that has echoes for contemporary Jewish life.
Dr. Channa Pinchasi
Engage with Jerusalem in all its complexity, exploring the ways in which poetic imagination and lived experience intersect in the city.
Dr. Daniel Fainstein
Explore texts in relation to questions of responsibility, leadership, hope, and identity in the wake of October 7.
Dr. Sharon Nazarian
Explore the complexity of Iranian society and the Iranian Jewish community, and get insight into this moment in history.
Ruben Shimonov
What can Sephardic texts and wisdom teach us about Jewish identity, diversity, leadership, community life, and engagement with the world?
Rabbanit Nechama Goldman Barash
Explore rabbinic and Hassidic texts to learn about the connection between the flame of the candle and the human soul.
Dr Sarah Bunin Benor
Get a glimpse into the history of Jewish names, from the ancient Middle East to medieval Cairo, from Renaissance Rome to modern Poland.
Rabbi Sergio Bergman
How our Jewish texts and traditions can serve as the foundation for local activism and leadership.
Rabbi David Saperstein
What are the roots of the social justice imperative in Jewish texts, tradition and history?
Sophie Bigot-Golblum
Drawing on biblical, rabbinic, and mystical sources, explore the Leviathan’s journey from chaos to the material of the messianic sukkah.
Sophie Bigot-Golblum
Explore a radical re-reading and reinterpretation of this seminal Jewish holiday.
Dr. Sara Hirschhorn
Contemporary antisemitism in relation to Jews on American campuses and its implications for Jewish leadership in the diaspora and Israel.
Prof. Steven Windmueller
Explore some of the principles, challenges, and limitations of Jewish power in relation to the events surrounding the Israel-Iran War
Rabbi Matt Berkowitz
Explore the photography of Israeli photographer, Adi Nes, and his arresting series on Biblical characters set in contemporary Tel Aviv.
Rabbi Matt Berkowitz
Explore contemporary Israeli art post October 7th.
Yossi Klein Halevi
Join Israeli journalist and author Yossi Klein Halevi as he discusses critical questions of this moment and reflects on the past year.
Rabbi Matt Berkowitz
Examine the image of the \"New Jew\" that Zionism sought to create.
Rabbi Matt Berkowitz
Explore classical and contemporary Zionist thought and Israeli identity through visual art.
Dr. Channa Pinchasi
Explore music, poetry, satire, and religious texts that expose the complex, conflicting set of voices which make up contemporary Israel.
Dr J.J. Schacter
Today, how do Jews living in the Diaspora perceive the State of Israel, and how does the State of Israel view the Diaspora?
Dr J.J. Schacter
Rabbi Schacter looks at how Jews living outside the land of Israel understood their connection and obligation to the land of Israel.
Dr Sarah Bunin Benor
Explore the history and future of global Jewish languages, and learn how Jews are engaging creatively with these languages today.
Dr. Raquel Ukeles
Dr. Ukeles shared reflections on the work of the National Library of Israel where they are building a vast repository of material docum...
Dr. Tova Ganzel
Dr. Tova Ganzel discussed the heroism of women from antiquity to the present day, specifically the roles of the daughter of Jochanan th...
Dr. Tova Ganzel
What are the moral and ethical implications of contemporary institutions and how can we apply Jewish concepts of social justice in the ...
Rabbi Dr. Ben Elton
Judaism in Britain developed differently to the rest of the world, and faced the problems of a fractured people in a unique way. Whethe...
Rabbi Shoshana Boyd Gelfand
Rabbi Shoshana Boyd Gelfand explored the work of moral psychologist, Dr. Jonathan Haidt. We reflected on his distinction between our \"...
NGF Network member Matt Fieldman and Charmaine D. Rice share their experiences as co-founders of Rekindle, working towards bridging the...
Dr. Ronnie Perelis
The powerful tradition of the sensual and spiritual poetry of the Hebrew poets of Sefarad continues with interesting re-interpretation ...
Rabba Dr. Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz
Explore some challenging midrashim, classical and modern, offering interesting interpretations of the Akedah.
Dr J.J. Schacter
Engage with Rabbi Soloveitchik’s challenging position on the status of Christianity within an interfaith context.
Dr J.J. Schacter
Engagement with Jewish behavior unfolds on two levels: 1) the act or performance of a mitzvah as well as 2) the experience of the mitzvah.
Dr J.J. Schacter
How did Rabbi Soloveitchik engage with Israel and Zionism.
Dr. Raquel Ukeles
The challenges of building an inclusive collection for a national library that operates in a complex political environment, especially ...
Dr Sam Lebens
Sometimes doing the right thing leaves you with dirty hands. Explore Rabbinic and philosophical approaches to moral dilemmas.
Dr. Saba Soomekh
From personal stories to hard historical facts, delve into the fascinating history of Persian Jewry, and learn about the reality today.
Dr Ronnie Perelis
Take a thrilling journey into the turbulent history of Crypto Jews.
Dr Ronnie Perelis
Using Jewish texts, art and poetry, Dr. Perelis explored the unique time in history that gave rise to Sephardic Jewish culture.
Nigel Savage
What is the relationship between Jewish tradition and the real world in which we live?
Are we one Jewish People or are there real differences emerging between the Jews in the diaspora and Jews living in Israel?
The noble humanist and Social Democratic principles that founded the State of Israel are under attack from forces within and without.
Rabbi David Saperstein
What is our responsibility to some of the pressing global issues of the day?
Rabbi David Saperstein
What does Judaism have to say about some of the urgent and vexing moral challenges of our day.
Dr. Channa Pinchasi
What are the tensions between the ancient Hebrew language and the Israeli vocabulary of a digital era.
Dr. Tova Ganzel
How has Hanukkah evolved historically and what is it really all about?
Stephen Bush
What is racial justice and just how inclusive are Jewish communities?
Dr. Guila Benchimol
What is gender justice? What role do safety, respect, and equity play in it? And what does it look like in Jewish spaces?
Rabbi Joe Wolfson
How can we think about justice in a manner that is authentically Jewish?
Rabbi Joe Wolfson
When the Bible speaks of justice what does it mean?
Dr J.J. Schacter
6 months into the COVID-19 Pandemic, what does the Jewish tradition have to teach us about how to cope with adversity.
Dr. Anna Shternshis
Yiddish is on the rise. Discover what is going on with the Yiddish language today.
Dr. Steven Bayme
How did Jewish leaders respond to the challenges of Diaspora, National Tragedy, and Military Victory?
Dr. Anna Shternshis
How Yiddish plays, folklore and music depicted what it was like for Jewish refugees to live in Central Asia.
Dr. Steven Bayme
How did Jewish leaders respond to the challenges of Diaspora, National Tragedy, and Military Victory?
Anna andy Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter, Psoy Korolenko bring to life long lost Yiddish songs of World War II.
Dr. Steven Bayme
How did Jewish leaders respond to the challenges of Diaspora, National Tragedy, and Military Victory?
How were Jews and Judaism being viewed in light of the Coronavirus pandemic.
Dr. Daniel Fainstein
The problem of evil occupies an important place in monotheistic philosophical and theological thought since ancient times.
Prof. Galeet Dardashti
Various forms of Israeli music offer a unique political and cultural lens for the study of Israeli identity over the past several decades.
Prof. Galeet Dardashti
The changes in Israeli music over the country’s short history illuminate significant historical and social developments.
Prof. Eric Goldman
Part II examines current films and several of the television dramas that are being streamed across the globe.
Prof. Eric Goldman
Part I explores a changing and evolving Israel by analyzing select mainstream narrative films beginning with the first feature movies.
Ilana Kaufman
Ilana Kaufman, the Director of the Jews of Color Field Building Initiative, discusses research done regarding Jews of Color in the USA.
Rabba Yaffa Epstein
How the story of Queen Esther teaches us about how we attain, and wield power, and authority today.
David Gidron
Following the shooting at the Tree of Life Congregation in Pittsburgh, we discuss the key elements necessary for Jewish Communal Resistance.
Benji Lovitt
Comedian Benji Lovitt tracks the changes in Israeli society through classic movie, TV and comedy clips.
Rabbi Dr. Sam Lebens
What is the nature of national identities and how are these relate to the traditional concept of Jewish identity, and Zionism.
Dr. Gilad Weiner
Explore the hidden tensions that are inherent in Israel’s definition as a Jewish and democratic state.
Dr. Sara Hirschhorn
Explore the history, politics and impact of the Israeli settler movement beyond the green line since the 1967 war.
Rabbi Prof. Saul Berman
What our texts teach about the challenges of mass immigration, growing disparity between rich & poor & the rise of religious fundamentalism.
Rabbi Prof. Saul Berman
What our texts teach about the challenges of mass immigration, growing disparity between rich & poor & the rise of religious fundamentalism.
Rabbi Prof. Saul Berman
What our texts teach about the challenges of mass immigration, growing disparity between rich & poor & the rise of religious fundamentalism.
Dr. Daniel Fainstein
The future of the Jewish communities of Latin America. Esta sesión se llevó a cabo en español.
Dr. Daniel Fainstein
The future of the Jewish communities of Latin America. Esta sesión se llevó a cabo en español.
Dr. Channa Pinchasi
This course will seek to examine three seminal Jewish texts that speak directly to the major issues of our time.
Dr. Daniel Fainstein
The future of the Jewish communities of Latin America. Esta sesión se llevó a cabo en español.
Dr. Channa Pinchasi
This course will seek to examine three seminal Jewish texts that speak directly to the major issues of our time.
Dr. Channa Pinchasi
This course will seek to examine three seminal Jewish texts that speak directly to the major issues of our time.
The views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture or the Nahum Goldmann Fellowship.
