Teaching Mahshevet Yisrael: The Universalist / Particularist Issue
Feb 14, 2017
Elie Holzer: “Jews, Non-Jews, and Teaching the Hasidic Homily: Hermeneutic Approaches and Pedagogical Deliberations”
Avinoam Rosenak: “Machshevet Yisrael as an Encounter: Jewish Philosophy or Judaism as a Philosophy—Educational Implications”
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Teaching Jewish History and Teaching Israel: The “Other” is Within “Our” Subject Matters
Feb 13, 2017 By Ofra Arieli Backenroth | Public Event video
Ofra Backenroth and Alex Sinclair: “‘Present Absentees’: On the Place of Non-Jewish Israeli Narratives in Israel Education”
Meredith Katz and Jeffrey Kress: “Middle School Students and ‘The Other’ in an Online Jewish History Simulation Activity”
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Jewish Particularism and Universalism
Feb 13, 2017
Marc Silverman: “‘Free Jews’ and Their Views on Jewish Culture and Its Interface with Other Peoples’ Cultures”
Yossi Turner: “Jewish Learning and the Non-Jew: Toward a New Particularist-Universalist Paradigm”
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Seeing the “Other” in Jewish Canonical Texts
Feb 13, 2017
Adriane Leveen: “Biblical Narratives of Israelites and their Neighbors”
Matt Goldish: “Reading the Gospel through Talmudic Eyes: John Lightfoot’s Revolution”
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Teaching Jews about the “Other” and Teaching the “Other” about Jews
Feb 13, 2017 By Sarah Tauber (z”l) | Public Event video
Sarah Tauber: “A Jewish Professor and Christian Students Meet: Teaching and Learning in an Introduction to Judaism Course at a Christian Seminary”
Michael Gillis: “Teaching About Other Religions in Jewish Education”
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Thinkers with an Educational Orientation: Exploring the Universal and the Particular
Feb 12, 2017
Ari Ackerman: “Universalism and Jewish Nationalism in the Educational Philosophy of Mordecai Kaplan”
Daniel Marom: “Jewish Educational Roots and Implications of Zamenhof’s Global Esperanto Movement”
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