Final Reflections/Looking Forward: A Roundtable

Julie Cooper is a senior lecturer in the Political Science Department at Tel Aviv University. Her research interests include the history of political theory; early modern political theory, especially Hobbes and Spinoza; secularism and secularization; Jewish political thought; and modern Jewish thought. At the Katz Center, her work will focus on the possibilities and perils of politics without sovereignty.

Cooper received her PhD in Rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley. She has taught at Tel Aviv University, the University of Chicago, Syracuse University, and Columbia University.

Suzanne Last Stone is University Professor of Jewish Law and Contemporary Civilization at Yeshiva University, Professor of Law, and Director of the Center for Jewish Law and Contemporary Civilization at Cardozo Law School.

Vincent Lloyd is professor of Theology and Religious Studies at Villanova University, where he also directs the Center for Political Theology. His most recent book is Black Dignity: The Struggle Against Domination (Yale University Press, 2022).

Randi Rashkover is the Gumenick Professor of Judaic Studies and professor of Religious studies at William & Mary. She is the author of Revelation and Theopolitics: Barth, Rosenzweig, and the Politics of Praise (T&T Clark, 2005); Freedom and Law: A Jewish-Christian Apologetics (Fordham University Press, 2011); and Nature and Norm: Judaism, Christianity and the Theopolitical Problem (Academic Studies Press, 2020).

Alexander Kaye is Karl, Harry, and Helen Stoll Chair of Israel Studies and associate professor in the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University. His recent book, The Invention of Jewish Theocracy: The Struggle for Legal Authority in Modern Israel (Oxford University Press, 2020) traces the origins and consequences of the idea of the “halakhic state” among religious Zionists.