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Religion is Physics: A Different Kind of Theory. A Different Kind of Everything.
Zoom(Fear not! No math is required for this talk!) Religion is accused of being many things, but how could Religion be Physics? Physics aims to understand everything with the most...
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The Talmud Talks and We Listen: How the Talmud Became the Authoritative Voice in Jewish Life
ZoomThe Talmud is an obscure, elitist document that emerged from a small community of scholars who held no recognized authority, living as a minority in a land not their own....
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Religion in a Time of Crisis: In the Shadow of the Holocaust
ZoomDuring the latest installment of the Center for the Study of Religion’s “Religion in a Time of Crisis” series, panelists Dr. Michael Berenbaum and Dr. Aaron Hass will discuss Susan...
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Organs for Sale: Markets, Motives, and the Spirit of Medicine
ZoomThis talk is based on my forthcoming book, Organs for Sale, which is an extended case study of the bioethical question of how to increase human organ supply, focusing on...
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Music and Hebrew Infusion
ZoomJoin Sarah Bunin Benor, Co-Author of Hebrew Infusion: Language and Community at American Jewish Summer Camps (2020), and sociologist Dan Lainer-Vos as they discuss the role of music in how camps infuse...
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Reading the Story of Dinah in Context and in the Age of #MeToo
ZoomDinah, the only (mentioned) daughter of the patriarch Jacob, emerges in Genesis 34, only to disappear from the text. Dinah goes out to visit the women of the land. She...
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Can Sacrifice be Literary? Ritual and Narrative in the Priestly Inauguration Day Episode
ZoomOne of the most enduring conclusions in pentateuchal studies is that the legal and narrative elements of the Pentateuch have distinct origins. Yet this argument is based more on outdated...
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Nicolas Poussin’s Visual Adaptation of Two Biblical Themes
ZoomIn this talk I will discuss Nicolas Poussin adaptation of two biblical narratives in two masterpieces: “The Plague at Ashdod” (1630) inspired by an episode in 1 Samuel, namely the...
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Studying Buddhism to Study Women: Sources, Topics, and Questions from Medieval China
ZoomTaking the example of Northern Wei Empress Dowager Ling (d. 528 CE) as a case study, this talk asks the question of “What new things can we learn about women...
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Religious Freedom, Buddhist Liberation
ZoomCo-Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Buddhist Studies U.S. officials who occupied Japan after World War II claimed that the defeated country lacked religious freedom, but this tidy narrative masked...