Applying Biblical Economic Mitzvot in Modern Life – Is it Possible?
Mordy Cohen, Paideia Scholar-in-Residence
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Israelisk dokumentärfilm i Stockholm
Välkommen till ett Paideia-studentprojekt!
Plats: TeaterStudio Lederman, Gästrikegatan 13, Stockholm
The Modern Jew and his Antiquated Tradition: I.L. Peretz Recounts Hasidic Tales
Dr Nicham Ross (Ben Gurion University)
We will engage in joint reading of a Hassidic tale regarding the midnight lamentation (‘Tikkun Hatzot’) of the Rebbe of Sassov. This text will serve as the basis for discussing the conflicting responses that a traditional, pre-modern, Jewish text evokes in the hearts and minds of modern Jewish readers, by comparing two contrary versions of this tale: the original traditional version and its subsequent adaptation by the modern secular Yiddish writer I.L. Peretz
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“Annulling It Is Allowing its Existence”: Abraham and Ethics in Gur Hasidism
PhD candidate Assaf Tamari (Ben Gurion University)
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Israeli Declaration of Independence as a Modern Jewish Text
PhD Candidate Rani Jaeger (Bar-Ilan University)
Rani Jaeger is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Bar Ilan University at the department of Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies. He is also the Director of the Shalom more »
Law and Life in Medieval Ashkenaz
Rachel Furst, Hebrew University
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The Krister Stendahl Memorial Lecture
The Krister Stendahl Memorial Lecture by Susannah Heschel
The Zohar and its Place in Jewish Culture
Prof. Boaz Huss (Ben-Gurion University)
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A Revolution in Jewish Education: Naphtaly Herz Wessely
Prof. Motti Zalkin (Ben-Gurion University)
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Prayers for the High Holidays: Kol Nidre and Unetane Tokef
Prof. Avigdor Shinan (Hebrew University)
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