| Lecturer: Malka Piotrakovsky מלכה פיוטרקובסקי Category: Tanach lectures Subject: מדוע התחפשה יהודית? על בגדים תחפושות ושינויי מציאות . Language: Hebrew Description: The role and importance of clothes throughout the Tanach with an emphasis on Megilat Esther. |
| Lecturer: Menachem (Mel) Alexenberg Category: Bellows-Kahn lecture series Subject: On Being a Zionist Artist in a Networked World Language: English Description: Addressing the Zionist challenge of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook to renew the old and sanctify the new, the lecture will explore the vibrant interface between the structure of Jewish consciousness, the realization of the Zionist dream in the State of Israel, and new directions in art emerging from post-digital creativity in a networked world. See also www.melalexenberg.com |
| Lecturer: Leeor Gottleib Category: Tanach lectures Subject:Who Censored Psalms? מי צינזר את ספר תהילים? Language: Hebrew Description: There are a group of psalms that have a unique attribute. Were these psalms changed from their initial versions and if so when? |
| Lecturer: Dr. Yehuda Berenson Category: Tanach lectures Subject:chiastic structures in megilat Ruth Language: Hebrew Description: There are many chiastic structures (ABCcba) in Megilat Ruth both on a macro level i.e. the whole megilah and also within the chapters of Ruth that reveal new insights into Ruth. |
| Lecturer: Prof. Menachem Levine Category: Yom Haatzmaut lecture Subject: The history and pre-history of the state of Israel Language: Hebrew Description: Prof. Levine was born in 1918. He joined the Beitar movement at an early age and helped Zeev Jabotinsky in Poland. He came to Israel and became active in the Etzel and as a chemist he helped make explosives for them. A personal history which intermeshes with the events that shaped the country before and after independence. |
Lecturer: Prof. Avraham Grossman Category: Tanach lectures Subject: Rashi as a feminist Language: Hebrew Description: Insights into the Rashi's commentaries which show Rashi as someone who stood up for the honor and centrality of the role of women in Judaism. |
| Lecturer: Prof. Abraham Nudelman Category: Science lecture Subject: The development of an anti-schizophrenic drug AN-168 Language: English Description: The development of an efficacious and safe anti-schizophrenic drug which has a surprise beneficial side effect |
| Lecturer: Rabbi Stuart Weiss Category: Torah lecture Subject: Do we worship Hashem or halacha? Language: English Description: Do we put too much stress on the letter of the law being meticulous in keeping halacha and ignore the reasons that the halacha was given? |
| Lecturer: Rabbi Yoel bin Nun Category: Tanach lecture Subject: The connection between Chanuka, olive oil and the prophet Zecharya Language: Hebrew Description: Was Chanuka celebrated before the time of the Maccabis? What are the early roots for the celebration of Chanuka and what is the connection with the prophet Zecharya? |
| Lecturer: Rabbi Pinchas Rubenstein Category: Torah lecture Subject:Does Love Cover All Transgressions?! (Love and Boundaries in Education) Language: Hebrew Description: How should we educate our children and bring them up with values that we want to impart without them rebelling. |
| Lecturer: Rabbi Mottie Goldreich Category: Tanach lecture Subject:Jerusalem in the book of Shoftim Language: Hebrew Description: The importance of Jerusalem in pre-Davidic times. The role that Jerusalem plays in building the moral fiber of the Jewish people. |
| Lecturer: Rav shaul Bar Ilan Category: Torah lectures Subject: "חייב לכעוס עליהם ולהכלימם" בגמרא בהסטוריה ובאגדה Language: Hebrew Description: How a teacher should deal with a student according to the Rambam and others. |
| Lecturer: Rav Yaakov Meidan Category: Tanach lectures Subject:The connection between Judaism and ecology Language: Hebrew Description: The Jewish outlook on nature and ecology |