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The Memorial Lectures at Drisha — 65 episodes
Nature and the Supernatural in Medieval Ashkenaz: The Renee and Alexander Bohm Memorial Lecture
The Seder Ritual and the Formation of Community: 2024 25th Annual Rapoport Lecture
All Israel Are Guarantors for One Another: The History of a Metaphor
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What Have They Done to My Holiday, or Rosh HaShanah Through the Ages
Yonah vs. God: A Prophetic Polemic?
The Prophet Who Stole Chanukah: The Biblical Roots of a Rabbinic Holiday
Yom Kippur or the Challenge of Authenticity
Mah Nishtanah — The Mishnah’s Fifth Question!
Does Jewish Law Recognize Righteousness?
Satan: The Evolution of Evil - The Stanley Rudoff Memorial High Holidays Lecture
From the Sea to Sinai, Tests of the Wilderness
Praying for the Welfare of our President: Perspectives from Halakhah and History
Each Person A Tree: A Short History of a Tall Metaphor
Ne’ilah: Ends and Beginnings
How did the Pesach Seder become a Family Affair?
Holidays and Theology in the Biblical Calendar: From a ’Holy Land’ to a ’Holy People’
Jewish and American Ethos During Tumultuous Times: Complementary and Conflicting Visions of Human Dignity and Worth
Dirshu Et Shalom HaIr Asher Hegleti Etchem Shama: On American Jews and American Citizenship
Hebrew and Jewish Identity in America
Jewish Philosophical Perceptions of Gentiles in (Early) Modern Europe
“You didn’t Build That”: A Morally Mature Theology of Thanksgiving
Mushrooms And Lullabies: The Public/Private Divide in Rabbinic Sources
Esther, Ruth, and Insider/Outsider Jew
Humans and Animals in Tanakh
Separation of Shul and State: Torah Study as an Alternative to Theocracy
The Rule of Law: Promises and Pitfalls?
Under the Sea: The Song of the Sea and the Creation Stories of the Ancient Near East
Light Against Darkness: The Miraculous Survival of the Holiday of Chanukkah
Everyone Believes: Rosh Hashana and the Renewal of Faith
Guiding Lights: Illuminating the Distinctions of the Chanukiah and the Menorah
All These Vows: The Kol Nidrei Conundrum
Love, Longing and Liberty: Reflections on Shir HaShirim
Symbolism and Meaning in the Seir Hamishtaleach: Reenacting the Story of Creation
The Omer Festival: Recovering a Lost Holiday and its Surprising Roots
Joseph’s Temptations and Chanukkah: Delivering the Powerful into the Hands of the Weak
From Cases to Concepts: R. Jose’s views on property rights as reflected in the Mishnah, Tosefta, and Talmudim
Commandment and Control in Marriage: The Poetics of Mishnah Kiddushin Chapter 1
Mishnah and Memory: An Educational Exploration
Introduction to Kohelet: Confronting Religious Challenges
The Machine-Made Matzah Controversy: Law and Tradition in Conflict
Assimilationists Or Maccabees
The Death of the Martyrs: A Lesson for Living
Let Me See That Good Land: The Story of a Human Life
Understanding Our Selichot Service: A Rabbinic Tapestry of Biblical Themes and Verses
The Ten Commandments: Principles of a Humanistic Practice
Home for the Holiday: The Miraculous Crossings of Passover
Voices of Our Fathers: The Patriarchs and Today’s Challenge of Prayer
Yom Kippur and the Imagination of the Aggadists
Fast of Gedalia: Then and Now
Blood, Bread, and Redemption: What is the ”True” Story of Pesach?
Creation Narratives in the Book of Exodus
Two Creation Stories — Contradictory or Complementary
Is God’s Presence Within Us?
New Year, Judgment Day, and Coronation: The Many Faces and Single Nature of Rosh Hashana
Gates of Favor: Sephardic Cadences of the Akeida
Hagar, Ishmael, and the Phantom Akeidah
Deception in the Exodus Story
Teshuva Drasha
Ani Ledodi Vedodi Li - I am for my Beloved and my Beloved is for me: Forgiveness, Atonement, and Humility
Repentance and Free Will
Awaken: A Maimonidean Imperative
In Your Blood Live, In Your Blood Live: Understanding the Blood of Circumcision, the Blood of the Pascal Lamb and the Blood of Childbirth
Fellow Passengers: Teshuva as a Community
God, Nature, and Community in Mishnaic Thought: A Literary Study of Mishnaic Passages