Monday 14 October 2024 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - The Civic Bargain: Is the Jew indeed ‘more man than Jew’?
  Dr Miri Freud-Kandel (University of Oxford)
  Modern Judaism: Through the Lens of October 7

Monday 21 October 2024 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Debates on Jewish eligibility for citizenship: shaping moves towards Reform
  Dr Miri Freud-Kandel (University of Oxford)
  Modern Judaism: Through the Lens of October 7

Monday 28 October 2024 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Judaism as a Religion: Reform Judaism in the shadow of universalism
  Dr Miri Freud-Kandel (University of Oxford)
  Modern Judaism: Through the Lens of October 7

Monday 4 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Orthodoxy: Same challenge, altered context. Judaism as more than a religion
  Dr Miri Freud-Kandel (University of Oxford)
  Modern Judaism: Through the Lens of October 7

Wednesday 4 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Professor Yonatan Y. Brafman (Tufts University) will discuss his new book Critique of Halakhic Reason: Divine Commandments and Social Normativity (2024)
  Dr Miri Freud-Kandel (University of Oxford), Prof Yonatan Brafman (Tufts University)
  Modern Jewish Thought

Wednesday 18 May 2022 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Kabbalah Research in the Wissenschaft Des Judentums (1820-1880)
  Professor George Y. Kohler (Bar-Ilan University)
  Modern Jewish Thought Seminar

Wednesday 1 June 2022 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - French Jewish Thought: Writings on Religion and Politics (Brandeis, 2018)
  POSTPONED UNTIL MICHAELMAS TERM - date TBA
  Professor Sarah Hammerschlag (University of Chicago)
  Modern Jewish Thought Seminar

Wednesday 15 June 2022 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Cultural Disjunctions: Post-Traditional Jewish Identities (Chicago, 2021)
  Professor Paul Mendes-Flohr (University of Chicago)
  Modern Jewish Thought Seminar

Monday 14 October 2024 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - The Civic Bargain: Is the Jew indeed ‘more man than Jew’?
  Dr Miri Freud-Kandel (University of Oxford)
  Modern Judaism: Through the Lens of October 7

Monday 21 October 2024 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Debates on Jewish eligibility for citizenship: shaping moves towards Reform
  Dr Miri Freud-Kandel (University of Oxford)
  Modern Judaism: Through the Lens of October 7

Monday 28 October 2024 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Judaism as a Religion: Reform Judaism in the shadow of universalism
  Dr Miri Freud-Kandel (University of Oxford)
  Modern Judaism: Through the Lens of October 7

Monday 4 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Orthodoxy: Same challenge, altered context. Judaism as more than a religion
  Dr Miri Freud-Kandel (University of Oxford)
  Modern Judaism: Through the Lens of October 7

Wednesday 6 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Professor Rebecca J. Epstein-Levi (Vanderbilt University) will discuss her new book When We Collide: Sex, Social Risk, and Jewish Ethics (2023)
  Dr Daniel Herskowitz (Wolfson College, Oxford), Prof Rebecca Epstein-Levi (Vanderbilt University)
  Modern Jewish Thought

Wednesday 20 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Professor Motti Inbari (University of North Carolina) will discuss his new book Ruth Blau: A Life of Paradox and Purpose (2023)
  Dr Daniel Herskowitz (Wolfson College, Oxford), Prof Motti Inbari (University of North Carolina)
  Modern Jewish Thought

Wednesday 4 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Professor Yonatan Y. Brafman (Tufts University) will discuss his new book Critique of Halakhic Reason: Divine Commandments and Social Normativity (2024)
  Dr Miri Freud-Kandel (University of Oxford), Prof Yonatan Brafman (Tufts University)
  Modern Jewish Thought