Wednesday, October 26, 2022
For Current Fellows

The Laws of Tsni'ut as a Translation of Legal Knowledge >

Featuring: Emmanuel Bloch, University of California Berkeley School of Law
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Wednesday, October 19, 2022
For Current Fellows

International Law for a Multinational State: Eugen Ehrlich and Habsburg Theories of Legal Pluralism >

Featuring: Thomas Prendergast, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Wednesday, September 28, 2022
For Current Fellows

Orthodox Jews and Public Health Conflicts >

Featuring: Ayala Fader, Fordham University
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Monday, January 24, 2022
For Current Fellows

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

Please note: this seminar has a new date and time. At the weekly Ruth Meltzer Seminars, Katz Center fellows share their research in an intellectually rigorous workshop setting. Seminars are limited to fellows only.

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Wednesday, January 26, 2022
For Current Fellows

Time and Timing in the Maimonidean Dynasty’s Legal Decisions >

Featuring: Menahem Ben-Sasson, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

At the weekly Ruth Meltzer Seminars, Katz Center fellows share their research in an intellectually rigorous workshop setting. Seminars are limited to fellows only.

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Wednesday, February 2, 2022
For Current Fellows

Regulating without Control: Rabbinic Constructions of “Jewish” Territory in Roman Palestine >

Featuring: Hanan Mazeh, Ben Gurion University of the Negev

At the weekly Ruth Meltzer Seminars, Katz Center fellows share their research in an intellectually rigorous workshop setting. Seminars are limited to fellows only.

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Wednesday, February 9, 2022
For Current Fellows

The Oral Torah in Judeo-Arabic >

Featuring: Marc Herman, York University, Toronto

At the weekly Ruth Meltzer Seminars, Katz Center fellows share their research in an intellectually rigorous workshop setting. Seminars are limited to fellows only.

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Wednesday, February 16, 2022
For Current Fellows

Grazia Pereira de Leon vs. Josef Gabai Villareal: Shedding Light on Legal Pluralism in 18th-Century Livorno >

Featuring: Evelyne Oliel-Grausz, Sorbonne

At the weekly Ruth Meltzer Seminars, Katz Center fellows share their research in an intellectually rigorous workshop setting. Seminars are limited to fellows only.

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Wednesday, February 23, 2022
For Current Fellows

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

At the weekly Ruth Meltzer Seminars, Katz Center fellows share their research in an intellectually rigorous workshop setting. Seminars are limited to fellows only.

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Wednesday, March 2, 2022
For Current Fellows

Why Couldn’t Proselytes Serve on the Sanhedrin? Reconsidering the Status of Gerim as Framed by the Rabbis >

Featuring: Yael Wilfand, Bar-Ilan University

At the weekly Ruth Meltzer Seminars, Katz Center fellows share their research in an intellectually rigorous workshop setting. Seminars are limited to fellows only.

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