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March 2022

Why Couldn’t Proselytes Serve on the Sanhedrin? Reconsidering the Status of Gerim as Framed by the Rabbis
Wednesday, March 2, 2022
Why Couldn’t Proselytes Serve on the Sanhedrin? Reconsidering the Status of Gerim as Framed by the Rabbis
Featuring: Yael Wilfand, Bar-Ilan University

February 2022

Dreams of Spain: Old and New Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) Songs
Thursday, February 24, 2022
Dreams of Spain: Old and New Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) Songs
Featuring: Edwin Seroussi, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Transforming Law into Gospel: Gerhard von Rad’s Response to the "De-Jewing" of the Old Testament in Nazi Germany (A Case Study in the Social Location of Biblical Scholarship)
Wednesday, February 23, 2022
Transforming Law into Gospel: Gerhard von Rad’s Response to the "De-Jewing" of the Old Testament in Nazi Germany (A Case Study in the Social Location of Biblical Scholarship)
Featuring: Bernard M. Levinson, University of Minnesota
Grazia Pereira de Leon vs. Josef Gabai Villareal: Shedding Light on Legal Pluralism in 18th-Century Livorno
Wednesday, February 16, 2022
Grazia Pereira de Leon vs. Josef Gabai Villareal: Shedding Light on Legal Pluralism in 18th-Century Livorno
Featuring: Evelyne Oliel-Grausz, Sorbonne
The Oral Torah in Judeo-Arabic
Wednesday, February 9, 2022
The Oral Torah in Judeo-Arabic
Featuring: Marc Herman, York University, Toronto
Regulating without Control: Rabbinic Constructions of “Jewish” Territory in Roman Palestine
Wednesday, February 2, 2022
Regulating without Control: Rabbinic Constructions of “Jewish” Territory in Roman Palestine
Featuring: Hanan Mazeh, Ben Gurion University of the Negev

January 2022

Resetting the Set Table (“Shulhan Arukh”)
Thursday, January 27, 2022
Resetting the Set Table (“Shulhan Arukh”)
Featuring: Alyssa M. Gray, Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion
Time and Timing in the Maimonidean Dynasty’s Legal Decisions
Wednesday, January 26, 2022
Time and Timing in the Maimonidean Dynasty’s Legal Decisions
Featuring: Menahem Ben-Sasson, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Joseph Karo’s Halakhic Revival of the Land of Israel: A Law-and-Literature Perspective
Monday, January 24, 2022
Joseph Karo’s Halakhic Revival of the Land of Israel: A Law-and-Literature Perspective
Featuring: Alyssa M. Gray, Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion
The Revolutionary Conservatism of the Mishneh Torah
Thursday, January 20, 2022
The Revolutionary Conservatism of the Mishneh Torah
Featuring: Eve Krakowski, Princeton University
Round Table on Miguel Vatter's Living Law: Jewish Political Theology from Hermann Cohen to Hannah Arendt
Thursday, January 13, 2022
Round Table on Miguel Vatter's Living Law: Jewish Political Theology from Hermann Cohen to Hannah Arendt
Featuring: Miriam Jerade, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez; David Flatto, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Martin Kavka, Florida State University; Nitzan Lebovic, Lehigh University; Paula Schwebel, Ryerson University; Miguel Vatter, Deakin University

December 2021

Ancient Laws Ancient Contexts: Situating Israelites and Jews in Normative Discourses
December 15 - 16, 2021
Ancient Laws Ancient Contexts: Situating Israelites and Jews in Normative Discourses
Jewish Litigation and Legal Performance at Germany’s Imperial Supreme Court (1511–1690)
Wednesday, December 8, 2021
Jewish Litigation and Legal Performance at Germany’s Imperial Supreme Court (1511–1690)
Featuring: Tamar Menashe, Columbia University
Who Counts and How? Reckoning with Continuity and Community
Wednesday, December 8, 2021
Who Counts and How? Reckoning with Continuity and Community
Featuring: Gilah Kletenik, Boston University; Shaul Magid, Dartmouth College; Samira Mehta, University of Colorado Boulder; Benjamin Schreier, Pennsylvania State University
State Courts in the Governance of Jewish and Converso Atlantic Trade
Wednesday, December 1, 2021
State Courts in the Governance of Jewish and Converso Atlantic Trade
Featuring: Daniel Strum, University of São Paulo