Are There Things A Jew Must Believe?
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Dr. Marc Shapiro
Marc B. Shapiro holds the Weinberg Chair in Judaic Studies at the University of Scranton. A graduate of Brandeis (BA) and Harvard (PhD), he is the author of numerous books, articles, and reviews and is a popular scholar in residence at synagogues around the world. He has written Between the Yeshiva World and Modern Orthodoxy and The Limits of Orthodox Theology, both of which were National Jewish Book Award Finalists. Other books of his include Saul Lieberman and the Orthodox, Studies in Maimonides and His Interpreters, and Changing…
Dr. Menachem Kellner
Menachem Kellner is chair of the Department of Philosophy and Jewish Thought at Shalem College (Jerusalem) and Wolfson Professor emeritus of Jewish Thought at the University of Haifa. His most recent publication appeared in the latest issue of Tradition (vol. 43 [2021]: 23-52): “Today’s Perplexed: Between Maimonidean Promise and Peril.” This series is drawn from Kellner's 2016 Hebrew book, Gam Hem Keruyim Adam: Ha-Nokhri Be-Einei Ha-Rambam (They Too Are Called Human: Gentiles in the Eyes of Maimonides). His most recent…