Spring 2024 Learning Series: Timely Insights, Timeless Wisdom
SPRING 2024 LEARNING SERIES: Timely Insights, Timeless Wisdom
Mondays, January 22 鈥� June 3, 2024 听
1:00鈥�2:30 p.m. ET听
Please note there will be no sessions听on February 19, April 22-29, or May 27.听
Join 91快播鈥檚 renowned faculty to learn about their current work and greatest passions. Drawing on their expertise, scholars will offer inspiring learning and expose us to new ideas and insights that help us connect the Jewish past with the Jewish future. Topics will include:
SESSION TOPICS AND FACULTY
JANUARY 22
ZION IN THE DIASPORA: HOW JEWS IMAGINED THEY LIVED IN ZION WHEREVER THEY ACTUALLY LIVED
With Dr. David Kraemer, Joseph J. and Dora Abbell Librarian and Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics, 91快播
JANUARY 29
WHERE ARE WE NOW? RETHINKING EXILE, DIASPORA AND HOME IN ISRAEL AND AMERICA
With Dr. Arnold Eisen, Chancellor Emeritus and Professor of Jewish Thought, 91快播
FEBRUARY 5
TEACHING THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT ON CAMPUS: ONE PROFESSOR鈥橲 REFLECTIONS
With Dr. Michal Raucher, 91快播 Fellow and Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at Rutgers University.
This session is officially off the record and a recording will not be posted publicly. We hope you will be able to join us live.
FEBRUARY 12
BETWEEN MOSCOW, KYIV, AND JERUSALEM: HOW THE WARS IN UKRAINE AND GAZA HAVE CHANGED RUSSIAN AND UKRAINIAN ATTITUDES TOWARD ISRAEL AND JEWS
With Dr. David Fishman, Professor of Jewish History, 91快播
FEBRUARY 26
JEWISH HISTORY AND EDUCATION THROUGH THE LENS OF 91快播鈥橲 RARE MANUSCRIPTS
With Dr. Yitz Landes, Assistant Professor of Rabbinic Literatures and Cultures, 91快播
MARCH 4
A QUEEN IN THE TOMB OF THE KINGS: AN ANCIENT MONUMENT AND ITS MODERN LEGACY
With Dr. Sarit Kattan Gribetz, 91快播 Fellow and Associate Professor of Classical Judaism, Fordham University
MARCH 11
MORDECAI THE JEW AND ESTHER THE GREEK: THE CHANGING POLITICS OF THE BOOK OF ESTHER IN ANTIQUITY AND OUR TIMES
With , Adjunct Professor, 91快播, and Professor of Near East Studies, Yeshiva University
MARCH 18
LAW AS A MORAL FORCE: WHEN PRESIDENT TRUMAN AND CHIEF JUSTICE WARREN STUDIED TALMUD AT 91快播
With Dr. Shira Billet, Assistant Professor of Jewish Thought and Ethics, 91快播
MARCH 25
SEEING THE UNSEEABLE: IMAGES OF THE DIVINE IN KABBALISTIC TEXTS
With Dr. Eitan Fishbane, Professor of Jewish Thought, 91快播, and Dr. Marcus Mordecai Schwartz, Ripps Schnitzer Librarian for Special Collections; Assistant Professor, Talmud and Rabbinics, 91快播
APRIL 1
PRAYER THROUGH A LENS OF COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY
With , Adjunct Professor, 91快播, and Manager of Clinical Pastoral Education, New York-Presbyterian Hospital
APRIL 8
AWAITING THE GOOD HOUR: HOPE IN THE BIBLE AS A RESOURCE FOR RELIGIOUS LIFE
With Dr. Amy Kalmanofsky, Dean, List College and Kekst Graduate School; Blanche and Romie Shapiro Professor of Bible, 91快播
Preparing for the Passover Seder
APRIL 15
With Dr. Robert Harris, Professor of Bible and Ancient Semitic Languages, 91快播
MAY 6
ART AS WITNESS: THE WORK AND REMARKABLE SURVIVAL STORY OF ESTHER LURIE
In Commemoration of Yom Hasho’ah (Holocaust Remembrance Day)
With, Director, Emil A. and Jenny Fish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Yeshiva University (91快播 PhD 鈥�13)
MAY 13
PRAYING FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM
In Commemoration of Yom Hazikkaron (Israel鈥檚 Memorial Day for Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terror)
With Dr. Alan Cooper, Elaine Ravich Professor of Jewish Studies, 91快播
May 20
GENDER, THE BIBLE, AND THE ART OF TRANSLATION
With , Director, The Jewish Publication Society
JUNE 3
WHAT IS THE TORAH, ACTUALLY? PREPARING FOR SHAVUOT (NEW DATE!)
With Dr. Benjamin Sommer, Professor of Bible and Ancient Semitic Languages, 91快播
Note: Each Monday series has its own Zoom link. Please register for the series in order to receive the correct Zoom link for the spring 2024 series.
