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Beyond Conformity: Connecting to our Judaism

From Shakespeare to Freud, Einstein to Eliot - what is the role of play in creative thinking?; and is there a role for play in contemporary Jewish life? We explore how play and desire are essential for a radical Jewish creativity for the 21st century. Not nurturing blind conformity and compliance, our Judaism should nourish an openness to play, a yearning for making new connections, and taking the risk of getting 'caught in the act.'

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Dr. William Kolbrener

William Kolbrener earned a PhD from Columbia University and is currently a professor in the Department of English Literature at Bar Ilan University in Israel. An internationally renowned authority on John Milton, Renaissance poetry and philosophy, Kolbrener also publishes and lectures widely on Jewish life and learning. He is the author of a new and groundbreaking study of Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik entitled The Last Rabbi. Dr. William Kolbrener, a senior lecturer at Bar Ilan University , has brought his dynamic style of

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