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Beyond Conformity: Connecting to our Judaism

Dr. William Kolbrener

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…

Audio

Feb 15, 2012

Monday Morning Quarterback

Daniel Goldstein

Monday morning at 1:30AM here in Israel, I joined over one hundred million of my fellow earth dwellers to watch Superbowl XLVI. When halftime rolled around, I imagine there were far fewer of us who left the broadcast and surfed over to the YU Torah…

Article

Feb 7, 2012

Judaism vs. Hellenism in the Eyes of Twentieth Century Thinkers

Rabbi David Bigman

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Program

Dec 4, 2011

Should I Stay or Should I Go? The Response of Rabbinic Leadership to the Holocaust

Professor Kimmy Caplan

Audio

Nov 11, 2011

The Future of Religion in a Secular Age

Dr. Elliott Malamet, Professor Charles Taylor

To purchase the MP3 from this lecture please click here Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth and Professor Charles Taylor, Department of Philosophy, McGill University; winner of the Templeton…

Program

Sep 29, 2011