In genuine Jewish tradition, everywhere there is machlokes, reasoned disputes aimed at spiritual growth. Reform-oriented author and journalist Abigail Pogrebin and Orthodox-minded Yeshiva Headmaster Rabbi Dov Linzer are thus in good company with their new book It Takes Two To Torah, in which they “Discuss and Debate Their Way Through the Five Books of Moses.” Zoom attendance link here Cosponsored by the Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies and Congregation B'nai ...

Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Psychology at Hebrew University/Jerusalem, Yoram Bilu is a psychological anthropologist who focuses on Israeli society and Jewish traditional culture. His research interests include the anthropology of religion, culture and mental health, the sanctification of space in Israel, and Maghrebi Jewish culture. His perspective is consistently two-fold, as he seeks to highlight the interface between, on one hand, social actors as individuals, and on the other, the collective level of social ...