Dr. Daniel Fainstein
Explore texts in relation to questions of responsibility, leadership, hope, and identity in the wake of October 7.
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.
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. 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. 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 Sam Lebens
Sometimes doing the right thing leaves you with dirty hands. Explore Rabbinic and philosophical approaches to moral dilemmas.
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?
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 does Judaism have to say about some of the urgent and vexing moral challenges of our day.
Dr. Tova Ganzel
How has Hanukkah evolved historically and what is it really all about?
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. Steven Bayme
How did Jewish leaders respond to the challenges of Diaspora, National Tragedy, and Military Victory?
Dr. Steven Bayme
How did Jewish leaders respond to the challenges of Diaspora, National Tragedy, and Military Victory?
Dr. Steven Bayme
How did Jewish leaders respond to the challenges of Diaspora, National Tragedy, and Military Victory?
Dr. Daniel Fainstein
The problem of evil occupies an important place in monotheistic philosophical and theological thought since ancient times.
Rabba Yaffa Epstein
How the story of Queen Esther teaches us about how we attain, and wield power, and authority today.
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. 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.
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.
