The Jewish Theological Seminary
JTS Department of Community Engagement
Past Programs
The Louis Finkelstein Institute is pleased to offer selected lectures and events as podcasts and transcripts.
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| April 12, 2011 |
"The State of Catholic-Jewish Relations in the United States" The Most Reverend Timothy M. Dolan, archbishop of New York and president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), delivers an address entitled "The State of Catholic-Jewish Relations in the United States." Archbishop Dolan is introduced by Dr. Burton L. Visotzky. Following the address is a dialogue between Archbishop Dolan and JTS Chancellor Arnold M. Eisen. |
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| February 28, 2011 |
"GenNext: Religious Leadership 40 and Under" A panel discussion on religious leadership in the next generation. Panelists include:
Live music by Girls in Trouble. |
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| January 25, 2011 |
Death Panels? End of Life Issues and the New York Palliative Care Information Act" This panel will discuss the issues we face as individuals or surrogate decision-makers in end-of-life situations. Panelists:
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| January 19, 2011 |
Preaching the Gospel of Martin Luther King Jr. The Reverend Dr. James Alexander Forbes Jr. delivers a lecture entitled "Preaching the Gospel of Martin Luther King Jr." |
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October 25, 2010 |
Judaism and Islam in America Today: Assimilation and Authenticity The participants in the roundtable, this year's Jack and Lewis Rudin Lecture at JTS, include Arnold M. Eisen, chancellor of JTS; Sherman Jackson, professor of Islam at the University of Michigan; and Serene Jones, president of Union Theological Seminary. The moderator is Ingrid Mattson, former president of the Islamic Society of North America and director of the Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford Seminary. Enjoy highlights from this landmark roundtable on Judaism and Islam in America:
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September 16, 2010 |
"Teshuvah as a Common Element in the Lives of Professor Father Thomas Casey, SJ, director of the Cardinal Bea Centre for Judaic Studies of the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome delivers the lecture. |
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April 12, 2010 |
"Health Care Reform: Where Are We Now? Where Are We Going? Does Judaism Have Guidance to Offer?" Panelists:
Rabbi Leonard A. Sharzer, MD, senior fellow in bioethics, Louis Finkelstein Institute for Religious and Social Studies, JTS, serves as moderator. |
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February 17, 2010 |
"Religion, Science, and Wonder" Speakers: Janna Levin, professor of physics and astronomy at Barnard College, is the author of the PEN/Bingham award-winning novel, A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines, which explores the borders between scientific knowledge and sheer wonder, faith and delusion, and genius and lunacy. Rabbi Shai Held is cofounder of Mechon Hadar and the author of a dissertation on the thought of Abraham Joshua Heschel—one of the most profound Jewish thinkers of the last century. |
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November 17, 2009 |
"A Conversation on Creation and Evolution" Speakers: Lenn Goodman is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. His most recent book is Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself. Philip Kitcher, John Dewey Professor of Philosophy and James R. Barker Professor of Contemporary Civilization at Columbia University, is the author of Living with Darwin and other works. |
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March 12, 2009 |
"Have Doctors Lost Their Authority in American Culture?" Speaker: Jonathan Imber, author of Trusting Doctors: The Decline of Moral Authority in American Medicine, and Professor of Ethics and Sociology, Wellesley College Respondent: Dr. Nancy Berlinger, Hastings Center for Bioethics |
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February 11, 2009 |
"What Does Human Personhood Mean in an Age of Sex Selection, Cloning, and Gene Therapy?" Speaker: Eric Cohen, author of In the Shadow of Progress: Being HUman in an Age of Biotechnology, and director of the Tikvah Fund. Respondent: Dr. Josephine Johnston, Hastings Center for Bioethics |
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January 28, 2009 |
"What Are the Moral Crises That Arise Daily at Today's Urban Hospitals? Speaker: Julie Salamon, best-selling author of Hospital, and former reporter and critic for the New York Times and Wall Street Journal Joined by: Dr. Alan Astrow, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York; Martin Payson, chairman, Maimonides Medical Center |
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February 22–23, 2006 |
"The Renaissance of Jewish Philosophy in America" Panelists: Leora Batnitzky, Princeton University, and Martin D. Yaffe, University of North Texas Moderator: Alan Mittleman, The Jewish Theological Seminary: "'Coming After': American Jewish Thought in the Light of German Judaism" |
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October 30–31, 2005 |
"Secular Europe, Religious America: Religion, Politics, and the Transatlantic Divide" |
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March 15, 2005 |
"Vouchers, Charters, Choice: A Conversation About Education Policy" Speakers: Dr. Jay P. Greene, Senior Fellow, Education Research Office, Manhattan Institute Dr. Henry M. Levin, professor of Economics and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University |
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October 19, 2004 |
"American Jews and the Current Challenges of Church and State" Panelists: Marc Stern, codirector, Committee on Law and Social Action, American Jewish Congress Nathan Diament, director, Institute for Public Affairs, Orthodox Union David Saperstein, director and counsel, Religious Action Center, Union for Reform Judaism Respondent: Melissa Rogers, professor, Wake Forest University |
