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One-Week Advanced Seminar:
Narrative Traditions in the Bible and Beyond

Five-Session Courses:

An Absence of Grace?
Beyond the Law: An Analysis of Aggadah
Bible and Jewish Law
Does All Israel Have a Place in the World to Come?
Gender and Judaism: Feminist Critique of Traditional Jewish Theology
God in the 'Years of Fury': A Look at Holocaust Theology
Hungry Hearts: Fasting and Prayer (conducted in Hebrew)
Mind of the Mishnah: What Were the Rabbis Thinking About and Why?
Parashat HaShavua Through the Eyes of the Netziv
Pink Shirts and Pinstripe Trousers: Clothing and Gender Construction in Halakha
Rabbinic Authority: Comfort and Discomfort
Reading Leviticus in a World Without a Temple
Theologies of Lament: Reading Eikhah
Thinking About the Past: The Rabbis and Others on History

One-Time of Short Courses
Can Laws Given at Har Sinai Change Due to Events in the Book of Number?: The Theological Ramifications of a Chronological Debate (6/25)
God’s Wife: The Marriage Metaphor (6/30, 7/7)
Greeting the Sabbath Angels: Jewish Conceptions of Angels in the Rabbinic and Medieval Periods (6/30, 7/7)
Microcosm of Mourning: The Laws of the Three Weeks (July 3, 10, 17)
The Progress of Prayer: Lessons from the Cairo Geniza (7/16)
Religious Women and the Israeli Army: Skirts, Guns and Halakha (7/21, 28)
"Whoever Looks Upon the Priests Goes Blind": Priests and the Public Eye (7/16)
Yours, Mine, and Ours: Minhag (custom), Marriage, and Mutuality (7/21. 28)


 

Narrative Traditions in the Bible and Beyond – June 23-26

Menachem Leibtag – June 26


Drisha cited for being "profoundly innovative"

Drisha feature in Jewish Week

VIEWPOINT: Debra Waldoks - Graduation Speech

Drisha featured in PBS documentary “The Jewish Americans” on January 23