Judaism

WSRP 2017–18 Research Associate Avital Davidovich-Eshed, PhD (Bar Ilan University), Visiting Lecturer in Women's Studies and Judaism, delivers her talk, "Enclosed Gardens Revealed: The Concept of Virginity in Medieval Jewish Culture."

Professor Sarah Hammerschlag delivered this year's Albert and Vera List Jewish Studies Lecture on the topic "Truth for Children: Suffering and Election in Postwar French Jewish Thought." In her lecture Hammerschlag considers the role of biblical...

HDS is known to take interfaith dialogue very seriously. But what happens when that dialogue leaves the classroom? How does it work in the context of the “real world”—where faith is lived in addition to studied—and where trauma is a matter of experience...

Margaux Fitoussi’s world has changed before her eyes more than once. Born in France, she lived in Paris until she was 7, when her parents—she an American dancer and he a doctor of Tunisian origin—divorced. Next was a home on the edge of the ocean in Long...

This past summer, through the support of a CSWR Greeley International Fellowship, MTS candidate Shira Telushkin worked as an intern at the Christian Leadership Initiative (CLI) run by the Shalom Hartman Institute of Jerusalem (SHI) and the American Jewish...

Professor Jon Levenson writes on the great rewards and grave dangers that come from a philosophical investigation of the Torah.

Professor Guy Stroumsa delivered the 2016 Albert and Vera List Fund for Jewish Studies Lecture on the topic “Christianity and the God of Israel: Henri Bergson, Simone Weil, Emmanuel Levinas.”

Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, typically involves standing for hours with a hungry belly and a parched throat. These bodily deprivations underscore the biblical commandment to afflict our souls—an affliction that may engender liberation. Elliot...

Jeremy Sher, MDiv ’16, talks about his path to the rabbinate and how Jewish communities can be more inclusive.

Professor Jon Levenson discusses his latest book, The Love of God: Divine Gift, Human Gratitude, and Mutual Faithfulness in Judaism, in which he explores the origin and development of the idea of "love of God."