The Jewish Studies Program invites all Hebrew-speaking members of our community to a book talk with author and Penn PhD candidate Asaf Roth on his recent novel, …
Vocal artist Victoria Hanna brings new life to ancient text through sonic interpretations of Jewish mystical and magical traditions centered on Hebrew letters. She approaches the aleph-bet with…
The term antisemitism invokes actions, arouses passions, and enflames debate. On April 7, 2024, the Jewish Studies Program of the University of Pennsylvania will host a scholarly symposium on the history, meanings,…
Even before the Hamas attack on October 7, and Israel’s response, some campuses were seeing efforts from partisans on each side to vilify, and silence, partisans on the other. How do we understand the current moment…
According to the first-century Jewish historian Josephus Flavius, Queen Helena of Adiabene traveled from her kingdom in northern Mesopotamia to Jerusalem to worship the Jewish God in the temple. She ended up staying…
The Caroline Zelaznik Gruss and Joseph S. Gruss Lecture in Talmudic Civil Law
Benjamin Brown
Nov 28, 2023
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Jewish Law, also known as Halakhah, is a legal system without a state. Being religious law, its authority is based on its acceptance by believers. As such, it does not have official branches of government. Nor does…
