Natalie Dohrmann (NBD): Carla, tell us a bit about your scholarly interests. What drew you to them originally? What especially excites you about them personally or intellectually?

Natalie Dohrmann (NBD): Hannah, tell us a bit about your scholarly interests, what drew you to them, and what especially excites you about them personally and/or intellectually?

Natalie Dohrmann (NBD): Marek, tell us a bit about your scholarly interests, what drew you to them, and what especially excites you about them personally and/or intellectually.

Natalie Dohrmann (NBD): Mary, tell us a bit about your scholarly interests and what especially excites you about them personally and/or intellectually. 

Steve Weitzman (SW): Samantha, tell us a bit about your scholarly interests, and what drew you to them personally and/or intellectually.

Steve Weitzman (SW): Uri, might you begin by telling us a bit about your larger project on opera in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and what led you to this interest?

Steven Weitzman (SW): Can you tell us about your research on ultra-Orthodox Judaism and philosophy?

Steven Weitzman (SW): Elisabeth, thank you for contributing so much to our fellowship program this last semester. You came to the Katz Center to do research on something that you refer to as the “New York Black Book of 1946.” Can you tell us a bit about what this text is and what led you to investigate it?

Steve Weitzman (SW): Emmanuel, it has been great to have you as a fellow. Your research has opened my eyes to how halakhah, Jewish law, is developing is the twenty-first century. First of all, is "Jewish law" the right translation for halakhah? How would you explain what halakhah is for those who do not study it?

Becky S. Friedman (BSF): Marc, congratulations on the recent publication of Accounting for the Commandments in Medieval Judaism, which you co-edited with Jeremy P. Brown! Let me begin with a big question.