Rabbi, Professor, Lord - A Conference in Honour of Jonathan Sacks
Rabbi, Professor, Lord
A Conference in Honour of
Jonathan Sacks
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Tuesday 17 January
17.30
The Marcus and Ann Rosenberg Music Building (1005), Concert Hall
Chair: Dr. Miriam Feldmann Kaye, Bar-Ilan University
President Yitzhak Herzog (video)
Prof. Arie Zaban, President of Bar-Ilan University
Mr. Eliot Sacks
Prof. Hanoch Ben-Pazi, Bar-Ilan University
Jonathan Sacks: Rabbi, Professor, Lord
Prof. Dov Schwartz, Bar-Ilan University
Rabbi Sacks and Religious Zionism (Hebrew)
Prof. Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Arizona State University
Rabbi Sacks: A Post-Secular Public Theologian
Prof. Jonathan Rynhold, Bar-Ilan University
Jonathan Sacks: The Rabbi as Public Intellectual
Dinner
(invitation only)
19.30
‘Biss Biss’, Building 1004
Sponsored by British Friends of Bar-Ilan University
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Wednesday 18 January
Beit HaRav Jakobovits Building (1002), Lecture Theatre 01
Part 1: Jewish Philosophy
- 09.00-10.30 Rabbi Sacks as a Jewish Philosopher
Chair: Prof. Yehuda Halper
Prof. Hanoch Ben-Pazi, Bar-Ilan University
Rethinking Judaism: The Ethical Challenge of Jonathan Sacks
Dr. Miri Freud-Kandel, University of Oxford
Jonathan Sacks, the British Chief Rabbinate and the Challenges of Religious leadership
Prof. Lawrence Kaplan, McGill University
Rabbi Sacks on R. Soloveitchik’s Religious Philosophy
Dr. Tzachi Cohen, Ono Academic College
Difficult Texts – Value Confrontation and Creative Hermeneutics in the Teachings of
Rabbi Sacks and Patterned Listening in H. N. Bialik’s Thought (Hebrew)
- 10.45-12.00 Philosophical Dialogue with Rabbi Sacks
Chair: Prof. Tamar Ross
Prof. Daniel Rynhold, Yeshiva University
Theories of the Self: Philosophy & Pragmatism in the Thought of Jonathan Sacks
Dr. Miriam Feldmann Kaye, Bar-Ilan University
The “Great Eclipse”: Enlightenment Philosophy in Rabbi Sacks’ Early Writings
Dr. Tamra Wright, Yeshiva University
“There is a Moral Obligation to be Clear”:
Continental and Analytical Philosophy in the Thought of Rabbi Sacks
- 13.00-14.30 ‘To Heal a Fractured World’ The Ethics of Responsibility:
Contemporary Challenges
Chair: Prof. Miriam Faust
Prof. Laurie Zoloth, University of Chicago
Rabbi Sacks and the Ethics of Sustainability
Prof. Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, Bar-Ilan University
Rabbi Sacks’ Torah: A Feminist Perspective
Prof. Samuel Lebens, University of Haifa
“Religion is Not a Private Language”: Rabbi Sacks on the Public Nature of Religion
Rabbi Dr. Eugene Korn, Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding
Telos, Tragedy and Triumph: Jonathan Sacks on the Jewish Covenantal Mission
- 14.45-16.00 The Covenant: Modern Jewish Thought
Chair: Dr. Leore Sachs Shmueli
Prof. Alan Brill, Seton Hall University
The Dignity of Globalization
Dr. Tanya White, Matan Institute
The Place of Covenantal Theology in the Work of Rabbi Sacks
Prof. Joshua Berman, Bar-Ilan University
Forgiveness Studies in the Writing of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks:
A Case Study in His Use of Social Thought
Part 2: Inter-Faith Dialogue and Religious Conflict
- 16.15-17.30 Countering Religious Extremism
From ‘The Dignity of Difference’ to ‘Not in God’s Name’:
Chair: Dr. Ben Mollov, Bar-Ilan University
Prof. Barbara Meir, Tel Aviv University
Introducing Dignity to Difference:
The Notion of Otherness in Interreligious Philosophy
Prof. Ephraim Meir, Bar-Ilan University
Sibling Rivalries in the Monotheistic Family & Rabbi Sack’s Interreligious Theology
Dr. Alon Goshen-Gottstein, Elijah Interfaith Institute
Was Rabbi Sacks Interested in Other Religions?
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Thursday 19 January
Beit HaRav Jakobovits Building (1002), Lecture Theatre 01
Part 3: The Bible
- 09.00-10.30 Rabbi Sacks and Biblical Parshanut
Chair: Prof. Arieh Reich, Bar-Ilan University
Ms. Jessica Sacks, Koren Publishers, Jerusalem
Dignity of Diction: The Translation Work of Rabbi Sacks
Rabbi Dr. Reuven Leigh, Chabad, Cambridge University
Jonathan Sacks as a Biblical Exegete
Dr. Tova Ganzel, Bar-Ilan University
The Role of Exile in Rabbi Sacks’s Sermons
Rabbi Dr. Michael Harris, London School of Jewish Studies
Violent Biblical Texts in the Thought of Rabbi Sacks
Part 4: Education and Leadership
- 10.45-12.00 ‘Tradition in an Untraditional Age’:
Orthodoxy and the Confrontation with Modernity
Chair: Dr. Amira Schiff
Rabbi Dr. Raphael Zarum, London School of Jewish Studies
Jonathan Sacks: Renaissance Rabbi and the Birth of Modern Orthodoxy
Rabbi Barry Kleinberg, University of Haifa
Does Rabbi Sacks’ Religious Pluralism Result in the Collapse of Orthodoxy?
Prof. Avinoam Rosenak, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Rabbi Sacks and the Limits of the Humanist – Orthodox Translation
- 12.15-13.30 Rabbi Sacks and Religious Leadership
Chair: Dr. Tzachi Hershkovitz
Prof. Zehavit Gross, Bar-Ilan University
The Educational Legacy of Rabbi J. Sacks
Ms. Yafit Clymer, Matan Institute & Beit Hillel
The Idea of Prayer in Rabbi Sacks’ Thought
Prof. Leslie Wagner, Former Vice-President of the United Synagogue (UK)
Rabbi Sacks: The Making of a Great Religious Leader
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14.30
The Marcus and Ann Rosenberg Music Building (1005), Concert Hall
Part 5: Judaism and the Realm of Politics
- 14.30-16.00 ‘The Politics of Hope’: Judaism and Political Thought
Chair: Dr. Elisheva Rosman-Stollman, Bar-Ilan University
Prof. Nahshon Perez, Bar-Ilan University
Religious Communitarianism & Liberal Theory: Necessary, Compatible, Contradictory?
Dr. Benjamin Schvarcz, Bar-Ilan University
Israel, a Missing Dimension in Jonathan Sacks’ Political Theory
Prof. Moshe Hellinger, Bar-Ilan University
Rabbi Sacks as a Jewish Liberal Communitarian Thinker
Part 6: Rabbi Sacks as a Public Intellectual
Keynote Speaker
16.15-17.00
Chair: Prof. Jonathan Rynhold
Prof. Robert Putnam
Harvard University
How Two Voyages of Discovery in 1831 Are Astonishingly Relevant Today:
An Unexpected Encounter with Jonathan Sacks
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Roundtable: שולחן עגול
17.15-18.30
Future Tense: Rabbi Sacks & Visions for Israel & the Jewish People in a Global Culture
בלשון עתיד: הרב זקס וחזון לישראל וליהדות בתרבות הגלובלית
Chair: Prof. Hanoch Ben-Pazi
Prof. Adam Ferziger, Bar-Ilan University (Hebrew)
Prof. Michal Govrin, The Hartman Institute (Hebrew)
Rabbi David Wolpe, Sinai Temple, Los Angeles (English)
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Concluding Lecture
18.30
Chair: Prof. Amnon Albeck, Rector
Dr. Micha Goodman
Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem (Hebrew)
The Later Thought of Sacks as an Indictment Against Postmodernism
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