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05.08.2019
From New Christians to French Citizens: Jews of the Bordeaux Region
Speaker: Dr. Geraldine Gudefin Series: Rabbi Joshua O. Haberman Distinguished Speaker Series Location: Ohr Kodesh Congregation, Chevy Chase, MD Date: April 28, 2019 Bordeaux, as most Americans know, is one of the most important wine regions of France. Less known...
03.12.2019
America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today
Speaker: Professor Pamela Nadell Series: Rabbi Joshua O. Haberman Distinguished Speaker Series Location: JCC of Northern Virginia Date: February 6, 2019 This lecture was also given on March 11, 2019 at Kol Shalom in Rockville, Maryland. In her groundbreaking new...
01.22.2019
Lincoln and the Jews
Speaker: Professor Jonathan D. Sarna Series: Rabbi Joshua O. Haberman Distinguished Speaker Series Location: Ohr Kodesh Congregation, Chevy Chase, MD Date: November 11, 2018 The first U.S. President who actively sought to attract support from Jewish voters was none other...
01.22.2019
A Hanukkah Rededication: Honoring the Legacy of Rabbi Joshua O. Haberman
Speaker: Professor Marsha Rozenblit Series: Special Event Location: Washington Hebrew Congregation, Washington, DC Date: December 9, 2019 Our community came together to honor the legacy of our organization's founder, Rabbi Joshua O. Haberman, z"l. We learned about the world that...
01.14.2019
Is Judaism Really Monotheistic: A Maimonidean Perspective
Speaker: Professor Kenneth Seeskin Series:Rabbi Joshua O. Haberman Distinguished Speaker Series Location: Beth Shalom Congregation, Columbia, MD Date: December 10, 2018 The first two commandments of the Decalogue are the primary sources for our Jewish monotheism. How do we understand...
01.07.2019
Making of a Nation: Jewish Immigration 1820 - 1920
Speaker: Professor Hasia Diner Series: Day of Learning Location: Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Congregation, Bethesda, MD Date: September 3, 2018 Immigration is one of the hottest topics in our country today. In this full day program, Professor Diner, one of the...
01.03.2019
Healing, Health and Jewish Sensibilities
Speaker: Rabbi Vanessa Ochs, Ph.D. Series: Rabbi Joshua O. Haberman Distinguished Scholar Series Location: Congregation Olam Tikvah, Fairfax, VA Date: November 18, 2018 Derived from Jewish texts, traditions, laws, practices, rituals, and experiences, “Jewish Sensibilities” are ways in which Jews...
01.03.2019
What Can Jewish Culture of Pre-War Germany Teach Us Today?
Speaker: Professor Michael Brenner Series: Rabbi Joshua O. Haberman Distinguished Scholar Series Location: Adas Israel Congregation Date: October 23, 2018 The 19th Century German Jewish community was the first to attempt to integrate Jewish traditions into a modern European society....
10.24.2018
Understanding Judaism Through the Lens of Islam
Speaker: Professor David Kraemer Program Series: Rabbi Joshua O. Haberman Distinguished Speaker Series Location: B'nai Israel Congregation, Rockville, MD Date: October 7, 2018 In many respects, Islam is Judaism's closest "relative." It is a religion of law, based upon both...
04.23.2018
Creating Israel's National and Cultural Identity: From the Ottoman Empire to the Jewish State
Speaker: Professor Arieh Saposnik Program Series: Jewish Enrichment Location: Kehilat Shalom, Gaithersburg, Maryland Date: Monday, April 9, 2018 "If the Jews wish to become a nation of 'Jewish Culture,'" Eliezar Ben-Yehuda wrote in 1904, "they must first become truly a...
04.23.2018
The Neuroscience and Spirituality of Consciousness
Speaker: Dr. Christof Koch Rabbinic Response: Rabbi Lauren Holtzblatt Program Series: The Rabbi Joshua O. Haberman Distinguished Scholar Series Location: Adas Israel Congregation, Washington, DC Date: Tuesday, April 3, 2018 A top neuroscientist's stimulation explanation of the physical qualities of...
04.23.2018
Why Did Jewish Art Flourish in Late Antiquity?
Speaker: Rabbi Lee Levine Program Series: Rabbi Joshua O. Haberman Distinguished Scholar Series Location: Ohr Kodesh Congregation, Chevy Chase, MD Date: November 21, 2017 The study of ancient Jewish art is a relatively new field fueled by ongoing archaeological discoveries....
02.28.2018
The New Face(s) of American Jewish Life
Speaker: Rabbi Sid Schwarz Program Series: Jewish Enrichment Location: Adat Shalom, Bethesda, MD Date: January 24, 2018 Rabbi Sid Schwarz does pioneering work uncovering organizations across North American that re-inventing conceptions of Jewish identity and Jewish life. This session provides insight...
02.27.2018
The God of Vengeance or the God of Mercy?
Speaker: Rabbi Reuven Hammer Program Series: Joshua O. Haberman Distinguished Speaker Series Location: Tifereth Israel Congregation, Washington, DC Date: November 16 Since the rise of Christianity, the God of Judaism has often been depicted as a God of vengeance, while...
02.27.2018
Film: "Man From Munkacs: Gypsy Klezmer," directed by Yale Strom
Presenter: Yale Strom Vocalist: Elizabeth Schwartz Location: Tikvat Israel, Rockville, MD Date: October 28, 2017 Man From Munkacs: Gypsy Klezmer, one of many award-winning films directed by Yale Strom, explores the symbiotic relationship between the Rom Gypsies and the Jews...
02.27.2018
Holocaust in the USSR: A Forgotten Story Asking To Be Told
Speaker: Izabella Tabarovsky Program Series: Jewish Enrichment Location: Ohev Shalom - The National Synagogue, Washington, DC Date: September 27, 2017 While many of us know Babi Yar, this was not the first such massacre, nor was it unique in its...
02.27.2018
Campus Confidential: What the Demise of the Humanities Means for Jews on Campus or Preparing for College
Speaker: Professor Jacques Berlinerblau Program Series: Rabbi Joshua O. Haberman Distinguished Speaker Series Location: Washington Hebrew Congregation Date: September 12, 2017 Georgetown Professor and Director of the Center for Jewish Civilization, Jaques Berlinerblau talks about what the college experience is...
05.01.2017
Time Capsules in the Rubble: The Secret Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto
Speaker: Dr. Samual Kassow Program Series: Rabbi Joshua O. Haberman Distinguished Scholar Series Location: Kehilat Shalom, Gaithersburg, MD Date: April 2, 2017 The Ringelblum archive in the Warsaw Ghetto buried thousands of documents. But of the 60 people who worked on this national mission,...
05.01.2017
An Unlikely Revival: Jews in Today's Germany
Speaker: Dr. Michael Brenner Program Series: Rabbi Joshua O. Haberman Distinguished Scholar Series Location: Congregation Olam Tikvah, Fairfax, VA Date: March 19, 2017 Dr. Brenner tells the story of the rebuilding of Jewish life in Germany after the Holocaust and until today.
04.04.2017
What's So Divine About Divine Law?
Speaker: Dr. Christine Hayes Program Series: Rabbi Joshua O. Haberman Distinguished Scholar Series Location: Congreation B'nai Tzedek, Potomac, MD Date: March 5, 2017 Dr. Hayes steps back 2000 years to explore the diverse attitudes towards the divine character of the Torah, and highlights the surprisingly radical...
04.04.2017
After Abel and other stories
Speaker: Dr. Michal Lemberger Program Series: Jewish Enrichment Location: Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Congregation, Bethesda, MD Date: February 9, 2017 Dr. Lemberger shines a new light on the lives of nine Biblical women.
04.04.2017
Who Were the Dead Sea Sectarians?
Speaker: Dr. Maxine Grossman, University of Maryland, College Park Program Series: Rabbi Joshua O. Haberman Distinguished Scholar Series Location: Temple Beth Ami, Rockville, MD Date: December 14, 2016 Dr. Grossman traces the lives, text, and religious commitments in an effort to understand the sectarian movement and the...
04.04.2017
How Do You Say "Genocide" in Yiddish?
Speaker: Dr. James Loeffler, University of Virginia Program Series: Rabbi Joshua O. Haberman Distinguished Scholar Series Location: Ohr Kodesh Congregation, Chevy Chase, MD Date: November 14, 2016 Dr. Loeffler makes the argument that the concept of a "genocide law" predates the Holocaust, and is derived...
01.23.2017
Biomedical Ethics: Traditional Jewish Values Across the Continuum of Life - Part I - End of Life Issues
Speaker: Rabbi Elliot Dorff, Rector, Sol & Anna Dorff Distinguished Service Professor in Philosophy, American Jewish University Program Series: Community Event Location: Temple Shalom, Chevy Chase, MD Date: January 12, 2012 Rabbi Dorff presents a discussion through a clinical case...
01.23.2017
Jews in Space: The Importance of Space and Place in Rabbinic Judaism and Beyond
Speaker: Dr. David C. Kraemer, Joseph J. and Dora Abbell Librarian and Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics Program Series: Rabbi Joshua O. Haberman Distinguished Scholar Series Location: Congregation Beth El of Montgomery County, Bethesda Date: November 3, 2016 Jewish History...
01.23.2017
Film - 50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus
Speaker: Scott Miller, Director of Curatorial Affairs at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Program Series: Cultural Enrichment Location: Bender Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington, Rockville Date: October 27, 2016 Mr. Miller puts the film in historical context. He is the Co-Author...
01.23.2017
The Brandeis Legacy
Speaker: Dr. Melvin Urofsky, Professor of History and Director of Doctoral Program in Public Policy and Administration, Virginia Comonwealth University Program Series: Rabbi Joshua O. Haberman Distinguished Scholar Series Location: B'nai Israel Congregation, Rockville, MD Date: September 18, 2016 It's...
02.18.2013
Jews in Muslim and Christian Spain and Portugal - A New Home in Portugal: Haven and Horror
Speaker: Professor Marc Saperstein, the Horace W. Goldsmith Visiting Professor at Yale University and previously the Charles E. Smith Professor of Jewish History at George Washington University for 9 years Program Series: Holiday Weekend Study Retreat Location: Pearlstone Conference and...
02.18.2013
Jews in Muslim and Christian Spain and Portugal - 1391-1492: the Last Tragic Century
Speaker: Professor Marc Saperstein, the Horace W. Goldsmith Visiting Professor at Yale University and previously the Charles E. Smith Professor of Jewish History at George Washington University for 9 years Location: Pearlstone Conference and Retreat Center; Reisterstown, MD ...
05.21.2012
Charlatans and Criminals, Businessmen and Rabbis: Networking in the Venetian Ghetto
Speaker: Dr. Bernard Dov Cooperman, Louis L. Kaplan Chair and Associate Professor of Jewish History at the University of Maryland Location: Magen David Sephardic Congregation; Rockville, MD The Venice ghetto, like the city itself, is now largely the property...
05.10.2012
Gender & Jewish History
Speaker: Dr. Deborah Dash Moore, Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of History at the University of Michigan and Director of the Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies Location: Temple Sinai; Washington, DC This lecture reveals the importance...
04.26.2012
Hawks and Doves: The Complexities of Religious Zionism
Speaker: Dr. Robert Eisen, Professor of Religion and Judaic Studies and Chair of the Department of Religion at George Washington University in Washington, DC Location: Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington; Rockville, MD Date: April 26, 2012 In modern...
03.29.2012
Being a Jew in Nazi Germany: Nazi Oppression & the Jewish Response
Speaker: Dr. Michael A. Meyer, Adolph S. Ochs Professor of Jewish History Emeritus at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati and international president of the Leo Baeck Institute, a scholarly organization devoted to the historical study of German Jewry Location: Temple Shalom;...
03.15.2012
The Sabbath Soul: Mystical Reflections on the Transformative Power of Holy Time
Speaker: Dr. Eitan Fishbane, Assistant Professor of Jewish Thought at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New YorkLocation: Congregation Olam Tikvah; Fairfax, VAExplore the spiritual texture of Shabbat and its meaning for our lives today through the writings of mystical masters...
02.20.2012
Rethinking Jewish Beliefs in the Aftermath of the Holocaust: Part V
Speaker: Rabbi Joshua O. Haberman, Founding Chairman of the Foundation for Jewish Studies and Rabbi Emeritus of Washington Hebrew Congregation in Washington, DC Location: Pearlstone Conference and Retreat Center; Reisterstown, MD Fifth in a series of five lectures. The Lenell...
02.20.2012
Rethinking Jewish Beliefs in the Aftermath of the Holocaust: Part IV
Speaker: Rabbi Joshua O. Haberman, Founding Chairman of the Foundation for Jewish Studies and Rabbi Emeritus of Washington Hebrew Congregation in Washington, DC Location: Pearlstone Conference and Retreat Center; Reisterstown, MD Fourth in a series of five lectures. The Lenell...
02.20.2012
Rethinking Jewish Beliefs in the Aftermath of the Holocaust: Part III
Speaker: Rabbi Joshua O. Haberman, Founding Chairman of the Foundation for Jewish Studies and Rabbi Emeritus of Washington Hebrew Congregation in Washington, DC Location: Pearlstone Conference and Retreat Center; Reisterstown, MD Third in a series of five lectures. The Lenell...
02.19.2012
Rethinking Jewish Beliefs in the Aftermath of the Holocaust: Part II
Speaker: Rabbi Joshua O. Haberman, Founding Chairman of the Foundation for Jewish Studies and Rabbi Emeritus of Washington Hebrew Congregation in Washington, DC Location: Pearlstone Conference and Retreat Center; Reisterstown, MD Second in a series of five lectures. The Lenell...
02.19.2012
Rethinking Jewish Beliefs in the Aftermath of the Holocaust: Part I
Speaker: Rabbi Joshua O. Haberman, Founding Chairman of the Foundation for Jewish Studies and Rabbi Emeritus of Washington Hebrew Congregation in Washington, DC Location: Pearlstone Conference and Retreat Center; Reisterstown, MD First in a series of five lectures. The Lenell...
02.13.2012
Survivors of the Inquisition: Faith & Perserverance among the B'nei Anousim of Lisbon
Speakers: Rabbi Jules Harlow, served on the staff of the Rabbinical Assembly, most notably as Director of Publications, where he specialized in editing and translating the liturgy Navah Harlow, founding director of the Center for Ethics in Medicine at Beth Israel...
12.11.2011
Kabbalah, Science, and Universal Ethics
Speaker: Dr. David Ruderman, Joseph Meyerhoff Professor of Modern Jewish History and the Ella Darivoff Director of the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of PennsylvaniaLocation: B'nai Israel Congregation; Rockville, MD "The Book of the Covenant" (Sefer ha-Brit), first...
11.22.2011
Maharal: The Mystic as Legal Scholar
Speaker: Rabbi Dr. Levi Cooper, professor at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem and spiritual leader of Kehillat HaTzur VeHaTzohar in Tzur Hadassah Location: Temple Shalom; Chevy Chase, MD The Maharal is celebrated as a mystic, but he was also a legal authority. To...
11.20.2011
Rabbi Akiva: The Mystical Prayer of a Legal Authority
Speaker: Rabbi Dr. Levi Cooper, professor at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem and spiritual leader of Kehillat HaTzur VeHaTzohar in Tzur Hadassah Location: Ohr Kodesh Congregation; Chevy Chase, MD Rabbi Akiva is generally seen as the central legal authority in...
11.17.2011
The Villager and the Flute: Hasidic Tales that Contravene Jewish Law
Speaker: Rabbi Dr. Levi Cooper, professor at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem and spiritual leader of Kehillat HaTzur VeHaTzohar in Tzur Hadassah Location: Washington DC JCC; Washington, DC This lecture looks at the famous Hasidic tale and how it has...
11.10.2011
Looking in on Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden
Speaker: Dr. Ziony Zevit, Distinguished Professor of Biblical Literature and Northwest Semitic Languages at American Jewish University Location: Agudas Achim Congregation; Alexandria, VA The idea of "the Fall" of humanity from divine grace as a result of original sin is deeply ingrained in both Jewish and...
11.03.2011
Did Women Study Torah in the Talmudic Period?
Speaker: Dr. Judith Hauptman, The E. Billi Ivry Professor of Talmud and Rabbinic Culture at the Jewish Theological SeminaryLocation: Temple Shalom; Chevy Chase, MD For years, scholars and laypeople alike have asserted that women in the talmudic period were relegated to...
10.27.2011
Between History and Memory: Rethinking the American Jewish Past
Speaker: Dr. Hasia Diner, Paul and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History at New York University Location: JCC of Greater Washington; Rockville, MD From the idea that the eighteenth century constituted a "sephardi era" in American Jewish history...
10.17.2011
Three German Jews Rediscover Their Judaism
Speaker: Dr. Michael Berenbaum, writer, lecturer, and teacher consulting in the conceptual development of museums and the development of historical films Location: Ohr Kodesh Congregation; Chevy Chase, MD Dr. Berenbaum speaks about the lives of Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig,...
09.05.2011
"Revelation" in Modern Jewish Thought: Part III
Speaker: Dr. Leora Batnitzky, Professor and Chair in the Department of Religion at Princeton University, where she also directs Princeton’s Tikvah Project on Jewish Thought. Location: Pearlstone Conference and Retreat Center; Reisterstown, MD Revelation as Ethics: Emil Fackenheim, Emmanuel...
09.04.2011
"Revelation" in Modern Jewish Thought: Part II
Speaker: Dr. Leora Batnitzky, Professor and Chair in the Department of Religion at Princeton University, where she also directs Princeton’s Tikvah Project on Jewish Thought. Location: Pearlstone Conference and Retreat Center; Reisterstown, MD Revelation as Reason: Hermann Cohen, Joseph...

What's The Haberman Institute for Jewish Studies about?

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The Haberman Institute for Jewish Studies episodes:

From New Christians to French Citizens: Jews of the Bordeaux Region

America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today

Lincoln and the Jews

A Hanukkah Rededication: Honoring the Legacy of Rabbi Joshua O. Haberman

Is Judaism Really Monotheistic: A Maimonidean Perspective

Making of a Nation: Jewish Immigration 1820 - 1920

Healing, Health and Jewish Sensibilities

What Can Jewish Culture of Pre-War Germany Teach Us Today?

Understanding Judaism Through the Lens of Islam

Creating Israel's National and Cultural Identity: From the Ottoman Empire to the Jewish State

The Neuroscience and Spirituality of Consciousness

Why Did Jewish Art Flourish in Late Antiquity?

The New Face(s) of American Jewish Life

The God of Vengeance or the God of Mercy?

Film: "Man From Munkacs: Gypsy Klezmer," directed by Yale Strom

Holocaust in the USSR: A Forgotten Story Asking To Be Told

Campus Confidential: What the Demise of the Humanities Means for Jews on Campus or Preparing for College

Time Capsules in the Rubble: The Secret Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto

An Unlikely Revival: Jews in Today's Germany

What's So Divine About Divine Law?

After Abel and other stories

Who Were the Dead Sea Sectarians?

How Do You Say "Genocide" in Yiddish?

Biomedical Ethics: Traditional Jewish Values Across the Continuum of Life - Part I - End of Life Issues

Jews in Space: The Importance of Space and Place in Rabbinic Judaism and Beyond

Film - 50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus

The Brandeis Legacy

Jews in Muslim and Christian Spain and Portugal - A New Home in Portugal: Haven and Horror

Jews in Muslim and Christian Spain and Portugal - 1391-1492: the Last Tragic Century

Charlatans and Criminals, Businessmen and Rabbis: Networking in the Venetian Ghetto

Gender & Jewish History

Hawks and Doves: The Complexities of Religious Zionism

Being a Jew in Nazi Germany: Nazi Oppression & the Jewish Response

The Sabbath Soul: Mystical Reflections on the Transformative Power of Holy Time

Rethinking Jewish Beliefs in the Aftermath of the Holocaust: Part V

Rethinking Jewish Beliefs in the Aftermath of the Holocaust: Part IV

Rethinking Jewish Beliefs in the Aftermath of the Holocaust: Part III

Rethinking Jewish Beliefs in the Aftermath of the Holocaust: Part II

Rethinking Jewish Beliefs in the Aftermath of the Holocaust: Part I

Survivors of the Inquisition: Faith & Perserverance among the B'nei Anousim of Lisbon

Kabbalah, Science, and Universal Ethics

Maharal: The Mystic as Legal Scholar

Rabbi Akiva: The Mystical Prayer of a Legal Authority

The Villager and the Flute: Hasidic Tales that Contravene Jewish Law

Looking in on Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden

Did Women Study Torah in the Talmudic Period?

Between History and Memory: Rethinking the American Jewish Past

Three German Jews Rediscover Their Judaism

"Revelation" in Modern Jewish Thought: Part III

"Revelation" in Modern Jewish Thought: Part II