I’m delighted to share with you a special online program with two of my teachers and mentors: A CONVERSATION WITH RABBIS DAVID ELLENSON AND MICHAEL MARMUR on the occasion of their extraordinary new anthology of modern Jewish thought, on Wednesday, August 19, 5:00-6:00 pm EASTERN time.
It should be an extraordinary opportunity to learn with two of the most generous and insightful scholars in the Jewish world.
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DAVID ELLENSON is the Chancellor Emeritus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. He served as the Director of the Schusterman Center of Israel Studies at Brandeis University and a Professor Emeritus at both Brandeis and HUC-JIR. He holds numerous degrees and has published extensively. Some of his books include Jewish Meaning in a World of Choice (2014), part of the Jewish Publication Society’s Scholar of Distinction series; Pledges of Jewish Allegiance (2012), with Daniel Gordis; and After Emancipation: Jewish Religious Responses to Modernity, winner of a Newish Jewish Book Council Award in 2005.
MICHAEL MARMUR is Associate Professor of Jewish Theology at HUC-JIR’s Jerusalem Campus. Until July 2018 he served as the Provost of HUC-JIR, and was previously the Dean of the Jerusalem campus. He is the author of Abraham Joshua Heschel and the Sources of Wonder (2016), and a prolific writer of popular and academic articles. Following his ordination in 1992, he worked as rabbi and teacher at the Leo Baeck Education Center in Haifa. He is currently the Chair of the Board of Rabbis for Human Rights.
Together, Rabbis Ellenson and Marmur are the editors of American Jewish Thought Since 1934, (Brandeis Library of Modern Jewish Thought, 2020) a magnificent new anthology of distinctive voices that have shaped American Jewish thought over in recent generations. The contributors to this volume tackle a wide array of spiritual challenges: loyalty and belonging; spiritual and ritual practice; post-Holocaust theology; the revival of ultra-orthodoxy; secular forms of Jewish spirituality; feminism and queer theory; Zionism and its critics; the place of social justice; peoplehood and post-ethnic Judaism; and more. It’s a masterful collection of remarkably diverse and compelling voices.
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