From the monthly archives: November 2020

Dr. Ephraim Kanarfogel Publishes a New Book

On November 20, 2020 · In News, Publications

Dr. Ephraim Kanarfogel

Dr. Ephraim Kanarfogel, E. Billi Ivry University Professor of Jewish History, Literature, and Law at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, has published Brothers from Afar: Rabbinic Approaches to Apostasy and Reversion in Medieval Europe, with Wayne State University Press, which has published three of […]

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Remembering Lord Jonathan Sacks

On November 20, 2020 · In News

By Dean Daniel Rynhold

Today is Remembrance Sunday in the UK, when we honor the contributions of British and Commonwealth servicemen and women. I did not expect that it would also become a day on which I would, with deep sadness, also be honoring the memory of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks. The sheer volume of […]

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Final Judgement and The Dead in Medieval Jewish Thought

On November 11, 2020 · In Uncategorized

BRGS was pleased to welcome Dr. Susan Weissman for the first PhD “zoom” lunch of the semester on October 22, 12:30PM-1:30PM.  Dr. Weissman, who is a graduate of BRGS and chair of the Judaic Studies Department at Lander College for Women, discussed her new book Final Judgement and The Dead in Medieval Jewish Thought, which describes […]

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