Jewish Studies

HDS is known to take interfaith dialogue very seriously. But what happens when that dialogue leaves the classroom? How does it work in the context of the “real world”—where faith is lived in addition to studied—and where trauma is a matter of experience...

This is the bicentennial year of Harvard Divinity School, and in addition to high profile special events on campus, most of us are naturally taking the long view, placing our work in the light of that 200-year history. The Center, though young by HDS...

On Thursday, October 1, Steven Kepnes, director of the Chapel House and chair of the Department of Religion at Colgate University, will deliver the Albert and Vera List Fund for Jewish Studies Lecture at the Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR)...

Arthur (Avraham Yizhak) Green defines himself as a neo-Hasidic Jewish theologian. Hasidism, as he sees it, is an approach to religion that begins with the prophet’s intoxicating and transformative insight that “The whole world is filled with God’s glory...

Joel S. Kaminsky, Professor of Religion and Morningstar Family Professor in Jewish Studies at Smith College, delivers the 2015 Albert and Vera List Fund for Jewish Studies Lecture. Much recent scholarship has portrayed the book of Job as sweeping away an...

Professor Alexander Samely (University of Manchester) discusses new tools in analyzing ancient Jewish texts, including a database of comparative profiles of ancient Jewish texts.

On April 4, Louis Newman delivered this year's Albert and Vera List Fund for Jewish Studies Lecture at the Center for the Study of World Religions at HDS. Newman is the John M. and Elizabeth W. Musser Professor of Religious Studies and director of Judaic...