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Annual Levinson Lecture

Levinson Lectures

Date

Speaker

Title of Lecture

October 22, 2009 Dr. Jon Schofer Stewardship or Vulnerability? Ancient Jewish Rainmaking
and the Foundations of Environmental Ethics
August 27, 2009 Dr. Eyal Zisser The Influence of Syria & Iran on Peace in the Middle East:
An Expert's Perspective

November 16, 2008

Dr. Lee Levine

"The Revolutionary Impact of Archaeology on our Understanding of Jewish History"

April 29, 2008

Dr. Ellen Haskell

"Divine Domesticity: Women, Marriage and the Home in Jewish Mysticism"

EVENT CANCELED

Dr. Richard Friedman

“Before the Apple - What Was Life Like Before the Events in Eden?”

March 22, 2007 Dr. Michael Stone

“Adam and Enoch: Vying Paradigms for Explaining Evil ”

September 11, 2006

Dr. Amy-Jill Levine

"Creating Anti-Semites: How the Church and the Academy Misunderstands Both Jesus and Judaism"

February 2, 2006

Dr. Marc Bregman

"Envisioning the Sacrifice of Isaac"

September 14, 2005

Dr. Paula Fredriksen

"History and Hollywood: Jews and Gentiles from Mel Brooks to Mel Gibson"

October 26, 2004 Dr. Frances Malino "Jewish Sisters in Muslim Lands:
The Teachers of the Alliance Israélite Universelle"

March 30, 2004

Dr. Henry Levinson

"Why the Great American Religious Thinkers Would Have Been Better Off Jewish"

March 2, 2004 Dr. Jonathan Sarna "The Emergence of American Judaism"

February 4, 2003 Dr. Stephen Whitfield "Judaism in the South"

April 15, 2002 Dr. Ross Kraemer "Rehabilitating Salome: Herodian Jewish Princess and the Death of John the Baptist"

September 21, 2000

 

Dr. Moshe Halbertal

"Controversy About Controversy: The Rabbis’ Argument About Argument"

March 23, 2000 Dr. Peter Ochs

"Judaism and Christianity After the Holocaust"

 

 

OTHER SPEAKERS:

2/19/07 Dr. Yehuda Gellman  “Reb Nachman of Breslav on The
Sacrifice of Isaac:A Divine Comedy In Two Acts” 
EUC Auditorium
7:30 pm
4/12/07 Dr. Christopher Browning

“Holocaust Perpetrators
Reconsidered: Fifteen            
Years After Ordinary Men”

Curry Auditorium
7:30 pm

 

 

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