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The Criminal Justice System: Honoring Tradition, Championing Reform
Apr 4, 2017 By 91Ώμ²₯ | Public Event video
Flaws in the criminal justice system threaten the social fabric of our country. Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr. shares new approaches to criminal justice reform, including initiatives to promote alternatives to incarceration, address implicit bias, and enhance relations between law enforcement and the communities they serve. He also addresses contemporary public safety issues like human trafficking and cybercrime.
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Wondering Jews: Abigail Pogrebin and Joseph Telushkin in Conversation
Mar 27, 2017 By 91Ώμ²₯ | Public Event video
The Pew Research Center study βA Portrait of Jewish Americansβ revealed that most US Jews locate their Jewishness in their ancestry and cultureβnot in religion. Abigail Pogrebin wondered if perhaps thatβs because we havenβt all looked at religious ritual closely enough. Her new book, My Jewish Year, is the result of a deep spiritual and scholarly exploration of every festival and fast, coming at an ancient tradition with fresh eyes.
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Global Refugee Crisis: Time for New Thinking
Mar 16, 2017 By 91Ώμ²₯ | Public Event video
David Milliband, president of the International Rescue Committee and former UK Foreign Secretary, discusses ways to address one of the most pressing political and moral issues of our time.
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The US Health Care System: What Does the Future Hold?
Feb 14, 2017 By 91Ώμ²₯ | Public Event video
The Affordable Care Act of 2010 took a giant step toward universal health insurance coverage in the United States. Although it has been quite successful in accomplishing that goal, it has remained highly controversial. The new Administration is intent on repealing the law and replacing it with an alternative model.
Why is health care reform so challenging? Why does βObamacareβ look as it does? Could alternative plans under consideration achieve the same gains? And what are the political prospects of those alternatives? Prominent health policy expert Dr. Sherry Glied describes the past, present, and possible future of health reform efforts in the US.
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Teaching Mahshevet Yisrael: The Universalist / Particularist Issue
Feb 14, 2017
Elie Holzer: βJews, Non-Jews, and Teaching the Hasidic Homily: Hermeneutic Approaches and Pedagogical Deliberationsβ
Avinoam Rosenak: βMachshevet Yisrael as an Encounter: Jewish Philosophy or Judaism as a PhilosophyβEducational Implicationsβ
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Teaching Jews about the βOtherβ and Teaching the βOtherβ about Jews
Feb 13, 2017 By Sarah Tauber (z”l) | Public Event video
Sarah Tauber: βA Jewish Professor and Christian Students Meet: Teaching and Learning in an Introduction to Judaism Course at a Christian Seminaryβ
Michael Gillis: βTeaching About Other Religions in Jewish Educationβ
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Seeing the βOtherβ in Jewish Canonical Texts
Feb 13, 2017
Adriane Leveen: βBiblical Narratives of Israelites and their Neighborsβ
Matt Goldish: βReading the Gospel through Talmudic Eyes: John Lightfootβs Revolutionβ
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Jewish Particularism and Universalism
Feb 13, 2017
Marc Silverman: ββFree Jewsβ and Their Views on Jewish Culture and Its Interface with Other Peoplesβ Culturesβ
Yossi Turner: βJewish Learning and the Non-Jew: Toward a New Particularist-Universalist Paradigmβ
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Teaching Jewish History and Teaching Israel: The βOtherβ is Within βOurβ Subject Matters
Feb 13, 2017 By Ofra Arieli Backenroth | Public Event video
Ofra Backenroth and Alex Sinclair: ββPresent Absenteesβ: On the Place of Non-Jewish Israeli Narratives in Israel Educationβ
Meredith Katz and Jeffrey Kress: βMiddle School Students and βThe Otherβ in an Online Jewish History Simulation Activityβ
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Thinkers with an Educational Orientation: Exploring the Universal and the Particular
Feb 12, 2017
Ari Ackerman: βUniversalism and Jewish Nationalism in the Educational Philosophy of Mordecai Kaplanβ
Daniel Marom: βJewish Educational Roots and Implications of Zamenhof’s Global Esperanto Movementβ
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The Blessing of AssimilationβThen and Now
Sep 20, 2016 By Arnold M. Eisen | Public Event video
Current 91Ώμ²₯ Chancellor Arnold M. Eisen revisits former 91Ώμ²₯ Chancellor Gerson D. Cohenβs landmark 1966 essay βThe Blessing of Assimilation in Jewish History.β Chancellor Eisen discusses how the issues raised by Chancellor Cohen half a century ago continue to engage and challenge us today.
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Open Book Open Heart: Siddur Lev Shalem and the Future of Prayer
May 24, 2016 By 91Ώμ²₯ | Public Event video
Lev Shalem editors Rabbis Edward Feld and Jan Uhrbach discuss with Chancellor Arnold M. Eisen the unique spiritual needs and challenges of this generation and how this new prayer book responds.
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Religion and Diplomacy
May 9, 2016 By 91Ώμ²₯ | Public Event video
Religion is personal, yet it looms large in international diplomacy, much as it factors into interpersonal relations. This yearβs lecture is a high level conversation between two veteran diplomats, Archbishop Bernardito Auza and Ambassador Daniel Kurtzer, whose religions are essential to who they are and how they conduct their diplomatic work.
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Answering the Call to Holiness Together
May 8, 2016 By Arnold M. Eisen | Public Event video
A guest sermon at the Riverside Church of New York.
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Free Speech vs. Hate Speech: The Changing Contours of Free Expression
Mar 28, 2016 By 91Ώμ²₯ | Public Event video
Frederick M. LawrenceβYale Law School senior research scholar, past president of Brandeis University, and a leading expert on civil rights, free expression, and bias crimesβexplores the boundaries of free expression in the 2016 Bernard G. Segal Memorial Lecture.
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The Syrian Refugee Crisis: Realities and Responses
Feb 2, 2016 By 91Ώμ²₯ | Public Event video
What are the realities on the ground in Syria and other affected countries? What are our responsibilities as individuals, as a country, and as a Jewish community? How do we fulfill the Jewish moral imperative of dealing compassionately with the stranger even as we ensure domestic security?
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Disabilities, Inclusion, and Jewish Education
Dec 9, 2015 By 91Ώμ²₯ | Public Event video
How does the Jewish community help individuals with a range of disabilities participate meaningfully in Jewish education and Jewish life? A panel of experts discusses key innovations and challenges in the field as they apply to both formal and informal Jewish education, and explores which programs, services, and opportunities are still missing.
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No Religion Is an Island
Nov 24, 2015 By 91Ώμ²₯ | Public Event video
A conversation between UTS President Professor Serene Jones and 91Ώμ²₯ Chancellor Professor Arnold Eisen, celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Abraham Joshua Heschel’s revolutionary address at Union Theological Seminary.
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The State of Israel: Messianism Without a Messiah?
Nov 23, 2015 By Benjamin R. Gampel | Public Event video
This presentation explores what the messianic idea has meant for Jews through the ages and in contemporary Israeli politicsβand the dramatic implications of messianic thinking in shaping the future and fate of the Jewish state.
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50 Years of Jewish-Catholic Dialogue
Nov 20, 2015 By 91Ώμ²₯ | Public Event video
Mordechay Lewy, the Immediate Past Ambassador of the State of Israel to the Holy See, delivers a lecture titled, “50 Years of Jewish-Catholic Dialogue.”
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