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Wednesday, February 22, 2023
For the Public

Herodian Jerusalem >

Featuring: Jodi Magness, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

A noted archaeologist guides us through the construction of the Second Temple.

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Tuesday, February 21, 2023
For the Public

Does the First Amendment Protect Jewish Objections to Abortion Bans? >

Featuring: Anne C. Dailey, University of Connecticut School of Law

Understanding the legal argument for abortion rights as a matter of religious freedom.

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Tuesday, February 14, 2023
For the Public

Church State Corporation: How the Church-in-Law Limits Religious Freedom >

Featuring: Winnifred Sullivan, Indiana University Bloomington

What is the church in the eyes of the state?

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Tuesday, December 13, 2022
For the Public

The Intervention of American Law in Jewish Divorce >

Featuring: Suzanne Last Stone, Yeshiva University & Cardozo Law School

How does a liberal state deal with a subgroup with its own family law?

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Tuesday, December 6, 2022
For the Public

A Fateful Settlement: How the Issue of Theocracy Was Avoided in Kiryas Joel >

Featuring: Nomi Stolzenberg, University of Southern California

Church-state entanglement or private agreement?

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Tuesday, November 29, 2022
For the Public

Displaced Torah? Toward a Theory of Jews and the Constitution >

Featuring: Noah Feldman, Harvard University

Is there a unifying account of Jewish efforts to make sense of the Constitution?

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Monday, November 21, 2022
For the Public

Sabbatai Tzvi: Man, Messiah, and Living Myth >

Featuring: Hadar Feldman Samet, Tel Aviv University

The image and context of the strangest and most significant of the Jewish messiahs.

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Thursday, November 10, 2022
For the Public

Disputed Messiahs: David Reuveni, Solomon Molkho, and Their Jewish and Christian Audiences >

Featuring: Rebekka Voß, Goethe University

The amazing adventures of two early modern European messianic figures.

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Tuesday, November 8, 2022
For the Public

Eldad Ha-Dani and the Return of the Ten Lost Tribes >

Featuring: Micha J. Perry, University of Haifa

The tale of a medieval man who said he came from the tribe of Dan.

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Tuesday, November 1, 2022
For the Public

Jewish Messianism in the Time of Early Christianity >

Featuring: Matthew Novenson, University of Edinburgh

How did Jews understand messianism in the centuries surrounding the life of Jesus?

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