IJSS2: January 2018

A Garden Next Door

Jeffrey J. Kripal – J. Newton Rayzor Professor of Philosophy and Religious Thought, Rice University in Houston, Texas.

Connecting the Particular to the Universal

Elliot Wolfson – Fellow of the American Academy of Jewish Research and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is the Marsha and Jay Glazer Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies and Distinguished Professor of Religion at University of California, Santa Barbara

My Blogging, Myself

Sharrona Pearl - A Canadian–American historian and theorist of the face and writer who teaches at Drexel University.

The Triumph of the Therapeutic and Being “Spiritual but not Religious”

Bill Parsons – Professor of Religion at Rice University, Bill has written and edited several books, including The Enigma of the Oceanic Feeling (Oxford, 1999), Teaching Mysticism (Oxford, 2011), and Religion and Psychology: Mapping the Terrain (Routledge, 2001), Mourning Religion (Virginia, 2008.)

The Contemporary Social Relevance of Hasidic Prayer

Dr. Tali Loewenthal – Teaching Fellow, Dept of Hebrew and Jewish Studies of UCL (University College London, University of London).

Contemplation, Meditation and Metaphysics in Second Generation Habad

Jonathan Garb – Gershom Scholem Professor of Kabbalah, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

Lessons from Progressive Education for Spirituality and Social Justice

Susan Semel – Professor of Education and the Chair of the Department of Leadership and Special Education at the City College of New York.

Holocaust Memories

Dr. Alan Sadovnik– Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor in the School of Public Affairs and Administration (SPAA) at Rutgers University–Newark.

The Theory and Practice of Bittul in Habad Hasidism

Rabbi Nochum Grunwald – Editor In Chief, Heichal Ha-Besht.

Jewish Spirituality as Social Theory and Practice

Philip Wexler– Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Unterberg Chair in Jewish Social and Educational History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Previously, Dean of the Margaret Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development at the University of Rochester, NY.

Habad Hasidism and the Mystical Reconstruction of Society

Eli Rubin holds– PhD in Hebrew and Jewish Studies from University College London, and is a research writer and editor at Chabad.org.

The Educator as a Living Model

Rivkah Slonim – Education Director, Rohr Chabad Center for Jewish Student Life, Binghamton University, NY.

Aging As Spiritual Completion

Shaul Wertheimer – Director of Chabad on Campus at Queens College, City University of New York.

Empathy in Therapeutic Dialogue

Rabbi Joey Rosenfeld – LCSW is a practicing psychotherapist in the addiction field focusing on the interface between philosophy, spirituality, and psychology.

Thoughts on Educational Purpose and Practice

Mendy Levin – Principal at Cheder Chabad, Philadelphia.

Halakhah and Meta-Halakhic Considerations

Ada Rapoport-Albert – Emeritus Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College London, UK.

Modest Dress in Religion and Society

Kate Loewenthal – Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Royal Holloway, London University, Visiting Professor at Glyndwr University, Wales, and the University of Chester, Distinguished Research Fellow at New York University in London.

“There’s Something – Down There”

Nathaniel Berman – Rahel Varnhagen Chair in Brown University’s Department of Religious Studies

Beyond the Individualization Thesis

Rachel Werczberger – Lecturer, Tel Aviv University, Program of Religious Studies & The Academic College of Yezreel Vally.

On Mystical Sociology and Turning Judaism Outward

Don Seeman – Professor of Religion, Tam Institute for Jewish Studies, Emory University.

Spirituality in the Bible, Second Temple and Rabbinic Literature

Lawrence H. Schiffman – Judge Abraham Lieberman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University and Director of the Global Network for Advanced Research in Jewish Studies.

The Road from Halakha to the Secular

Shaul Magid – Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College, Kogod Senior Research Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America