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Thursday, February 2, 2023
For the Public

Gender and Jewish Philosophy >

Featuring: Sarah Zager, St. Olaf College

Explore the intersection of gender and the Jewish philosophical tradition in a small group over three weeks in the winter.

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Tuesday, March 29, 2022
For the Public

The Israeli Declaration of Independence: Between Prophetic Message and Constitutional Platform >

Featuring: Menahem Ben-Sasson, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The Chancellor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem speaks about the meaning and status of this historic document.

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Thursday, March 10, 2022
For the Public

Copyists, Collectors, and Curators: Stocking the Rabbinic Bookshelf >

Featuring: Joshua Teplitsky, University of Pennsylvania

The unseen forces that carried classical halakhic works into the modern canon.

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Thursday, March 3, 2022
For the Public

Designing the Daf: The Creation of the Talmud Page as We Know It >

Featuring: Edward Fram, Ben Gurion University of the Negev

How and when was the iconic layout created?

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Thursday, January 27, 2022
For the Public

Resetting the Set Table (“Shulhan Arukh”) >

Featuring: Alyssa M. Gray, Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion

On R. Joseph Caro’s little sixteenth-century compilation that took the Jewish world by storm.

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Wednesday, April 13, 2022
For the Public

Arabian Judaism and the Rise of Islam >

Featuring: Hamza M. Zafer, University of Washington

Take a three-week deep dive into Jewish life at the time of the rise of Islam, Wednesdays this spring.

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Thursday, February 24, 2022
For the Public

Dreams of Spain: Old and New Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) Songs >

Featuring: Edwin Seroussi, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Study the greatest hits of the contemporary Ladino repertoire, Thursdays in February.

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Thursday, January 20, 2022
For the Public

The Revolutionary Conservatism of the Mishneh Torah >

Featuring: Eve Krakowski, Princeton University

Why was Maimonides trying to replace the Mishnah and Talmud? Canon in Context Part 4.

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Wednesday, December 8, 2021
For the Public

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

A panel discussion on how belonging is defined in the study of American Judaism.

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Wednesday, November 17, 2021
For the Public

Jews in the U.S. Racial Landscape >

Featuring: Sarah Imhoff, Indiana University Bloomington

What does it mean that Jews can be both white and victims of white supremacy?

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