May 31, 2010
Speaker: Dr. Lawrence Fine, Irene Kaplan
Lewiant Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of Religion at
Mount Holyoke College
Location: Pearlstone Conference and Retreat
Center; Reisterstown, MD
Love and interpersonal relations were central to Eastern European
Hasidism. According to one Hasidic teacher, Reb Arele...
May 31, 2010
Speaker: Dr. Lawrence Fine, Irene Kaplan
Lewiant Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of Religion at
Mount Holyoke College
Location: Pearlstone Conference and Retreat
Center; Reisterstown, MD
In the seventeenth century, a kabbalistic community developed in
Jerusalem, known as Bet El. Inspired by Lurianic...
May 30, 2010
Speaker: Dr. Lawrence Fine, Irene Kaplan
Lewiant Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of Religion at
Mount Holyoke College
Location: Pearlstone Conference and Retreat
Center; Reisterstown, MD
The small village of Safed was the site of a great renaissance of
kabbalistic life in the sixteenth century. What was the...
May 30, 2010
Speaker: Dr. Lawrence Fine, Irene Kaplan
Lewiant Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of Religion at
Mount Holyoke College
Location: Pearlstone Conference and Retreat
Center; Reisterstown, MD
The Zohar, the great kabbalistic literature of thirteenth-century
Spain, depicts Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai and his circle...
May 27, 2010
Speaker: Professor Menahem Milson,
Professor of Arabic Literature at the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, Co-founder of The Middle East Media Research Institute
(MEMRI)
Location: Sixth & I Historic Synagogue;
Washington, DC
Antisemitism has become a pervasive feature of public discourse in
the Arab and Islamic world....