Past Events

Events



"The Role of Religion in a Changing Landscape" Gruss Law Lecture

Apr 5, 2017 at

This panel discussion is made possible through funds endowed by Joseph S. Gruss and the Gruss Endowment, and is co-sponsored by the Matz Institute at Hebrew University Law School. …



“On and Off the Derech: Turning Towards and Away from Ultra-Orthodox Judaism: A Family Story” with Donald Weber

Mar 23, 2017 at -

Donald Weber is Lucia, Ruth, and Elizabeth MacGregor Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College.  He is the author of Haunted in the New World: Jewish American Culture from Cahan to The Goldbergs…



Roundtable: "Inglorious Comparisons: On the Uses and Abuses of Historical Analogy"

Feb 23, 2017 at

The Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures invites you to the first in a series of events on "Inglorious Comparisons: On the Uses and Abuses of Historical Analogy".  

Roundtable



"Sanhedrin on the Sistine Ceiling: Talmudic Traces in Michelangelo’s Frescoes" with Benjamin Braude

Feb 15, 2017 at -

Prof. Benjamin Braude, History, Boston College, and Research Associate, Department of Religion, Smith College, has been a visiting professor/research fellow at Harvard,…



Peace After the Peace Process: Unorthodox Views from Israel/Palestine

Feb 6, 2017 at

With the election of Donald Trump, many argue that a U.S.-brokered two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict is now a practical impossibility. With old paradigms crumbling and no consensus on where to go…



"Peace After the Peace Process: Unorthodox Views from Israel/Palestine"

Feb 6, 2017 at

With the election of Donald Trump, many argue that a U.S.-brokered two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict is now a practical impossibility. With old paradigms crumbling and no consensus on where to go…



Mark Cohen talk

Jan 18, 2017 at



"Women of the Wall: Democracy and Religious Pluralism in Israel" with Yuval Jobani

Dec 6, 2016 at

Yuval Jobani, assistant professor at Tel Aviv University and fellow at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies will be speaking about feminism, religious pluralism, democracy, and the public sphere.…



"Voices High and Low: Selections from an Accidental Archive" Cairo Genizah exhibit opening

Dec 5, 2016 at

Join us for an exploration of a multilingual, multicultural and multicentric archive! Part time-machine, part-archive, the Cairo Genizah is a collection of the written output of Jewish communities from the…



Gruss Lectures in Talmudic Civil Law: Rabbinic Constitutionalism

Nov 21, 2016 at -

 

Rabbi David Flatto, Ph.D., is Professor of Law and Jewish Studies at Penn State University and Associate Professor of Law and Jewish Philosophy at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Dr. Flatto holds…