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Announcing Upcoming Events with Moshe D. Chechik

Announcing Upcoming Events with Moshe D. Chechik

Between Autonomy and Authority, Between Germania (Ashkenaz) and Tzarfat: The Halachic Thought of Rabbi Meir of RothenburgA Master Class by Moshe D. Chechik (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) Smokler Center Third Floor Multipurpose RoomApril 28th-May 2nd, 2025Mon-Wed & Fri: 9:30 AM – 1 PMThurs: 1 PM – 4:30 PM Rabbi Meir b. Barukh of Rothenburg ob der […]

Honors Student Presents Research

Honors Student Presents Research

Al gesher tzar me’od: The Origins and Evolution of the Independent Minyan Movement Honors Thesis Presentation April 21st4:30 PMGilman 479 Near Eastern Studies (NES) major Zachary Bahar will present his thesis findings with commentary by Felix Posen Professor in Modern Jewish History James Loeffler (History) and William Foxwell Albright Chair in Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern […]

Inaugural Koren Lecture in Holocaust Studies

Inaugural Koren Lecture in Holocaust Studies

The Inaugural Koren Lecture in Holocaust Studies: Imagining Law after Nuremberg: Lemkin, Jackson, and the Poetry of Justice will be held on April 23rd and presented by James Loeffler.

Visiting Speaker Andrew Gross, March 10th

Visiting Speaker Andrew Gross, March 10th

Ancient Texts and Modern Techniques: Producing A New Edition of the Temple Scroll (lecture) March 10th6 PMGilman 130G The Temple Scroll was an attempt by the authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls to produce a more perfect Torah. Five copies of this text were discovered, including the longest of all the extant Scrolls. In recent […]

Visiting Speaker Eliot Wolfson, February 20th

Visiting Speaker Eliot Wolfson, February 20th

The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute & Stulman Program for Jewish Studies present a talk on Jewish mysticism with Eliot Wolfson, the Marsha and Jay Glazer Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara February 20th5 PMGilman 388

Upcoming Lecture from Guest Speaker Sidra Dekoven Ezrahi

Upcoming Lecture from Guest Speaker Sidra Dekoven Ezrahi

Thursday, November 7th 5 PM Gilman 479 Armageddon In Our Time?  Professor Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Thirty-seven acres of “real estate” in Jerusalem, encompassing the Temple Mount and Al Aqsa, are the epicenter of the intensifying religious war between Jews and Muslims that has evolved from political strife. Based on her […]

Two Upcoming Lectures from Guest Lecturer Hannah Pollin-Galay

Two Upcoming Lectures from Guest Lecturer Hannah Pollin-Galay

Hannah Pollin-Galay will lead a seminar on October 30 and present a lecture on her new book on October 31.

The 18th Lavy Colloquium

The 18th Lavy Colloquium

Oct. 27th, 2024 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM Johns Hopkins Hillel Center 3109 N. Charles Street

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Landscape, Garden, Monster

Landscape, Garden, Monster

Rethinking the Female Body in the Hebrew Bible Dr. Rhiannon Graybill University of Richmond September 12, 2024 • 5:30 PM (EST) Lecture at Gilman Hall room #17 followed by a reception at the Smokler Center.3109 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD 21218 The Hebrew Bible is filled with peculiar, striking metaphorical representations of THE female body. […]