Come to our forum presenting the works from the inaugural Halachic Left Writing Project, reviewing papers exploring various topics in Jewish thought and halacha (list below!)
Sunday, July 20, 9:30am-5:30pm at Congregation B’nai Jeshurun in NYC
Register here: bit.ly/forum-hl
*** We are working on getting a livestream option -- more information forthcoming! No need to sign up in advance for the livestream ***
Topics include:
* Bal Tashchit and the Laws of War (Rabbi Leead Staller, RIETS)
* Rabbinic Approaches to Accessing the Temple Mount: The Norms of Sacred Space (Raphael Magarik, Assistant Professor at UIC)
* Shelilat haMinhag: "Negation of the Diaspora" and the Eradication of Our Traditions (Isaac Treuherz, Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology, SOAS)
* Prayers, Language, and Values: When is Change Permissible? (Laynie Soloman, Associate Rosh Yeshiva at SVARA)
* "A Prison Without a Lock”?: Halakhic Perspectives on BDS (Rabbi Allen Lipson, Semikha, Hebrew College, 2024)
* Halakha and Democracy: Rethinking the Relationship (Rabbi Aryeh Cohen, Professor of Rabbinic Literature at Ziegler).
* Law at the End of History: Is Religious Zionist Halacha Antinomian? (Netanel Zellis-Paley, PhD Student in Psychology at Temple University)
* "Delaying the Services": An Exploration of Medieval Ashkenazic Protest (Albert Kohn, PhD Candidate in Medieval Jewish History at Princeton University).
* Ger Toshav: Strange and Settler in Israel Palestine (Rabbi David Seidenberg, PhD, Semikha, JTS)
* Kashrut in Solidarity Work (Rabbi Lexie Botzum, Semikha, Yashrut)
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