Rethinking the Tishrei Holidays: Ritual, History, and Renewal Rabbi Prof. Dalia Marx September 06-September 27,2026
Judeans or Jews? Prof. Daniel R. Schwartz Series: Conflicts in Ancient Judean Society: The Second Temple Period zoom October 04, 2026 Sun | 7pm (12pm EDT)
The Hasmonean Civil War Prof. Daniel R. Schwartz Series: Conflicts in Ancient Judean Society: The Second Temple Period zoom October 11, 2026 Sun | 7pm (12pm EDT)
What Destroyed the Temple and Jerusalem? Prof. Daniel R. Schwartz Series: Conflicts in Ancient Judean Society: The Second Temple Period zoom October 18, 2026 Sun | 7pm (12pm EDT)
The Battle for the Jewish Future Prof. Daniel R. Schwartz Series: Conflicts in Ancient Judean Society: The Second Temple Period zoom October 25, 2026 Sun | 7pm (12pm EDT)
Jewish Time Jewish ritual keeps reinventing itself in times of crisis. Rabbi Prof. Dalia Marx finds the same pattern in an ancient debate over the shofar and in the prayers written since October 7 By Alex Stein
When Words Falter, Poetry Speaks Maya Tevet Dayan has won Israel’s First Lady’s Prize for Hebrew Poetry for “The Wandering Jewess,” written after October 7. At the President’s Residence, four contemporary Hebrew poets were honored for poetry that carries what prose cannot By Noa Sorek
Reading Spinoza in XXI-Century Israel Excommunicated for heresy in 1656, Baruch Spinoza went on to lay the philosophical groundwork for liberal democracy – and is widely regarded as the first secular Jew. Prof. Pini Ifergan on why Spinoza’s ideas still matter today By Gilad Halpern
