Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies
Layers of Trauma and Paths to Healing
297 Goldberg Room 225 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA, United StatesWed. Oct. 9, 12:30–2 pm, 297 Goldberg Room, Berkeley Law Building Register: https://layersoftrauma.rsvpify.com Ayelet Gundar Goshen, Israeli author and Clinical Psychologist, will join Yael Segalovitz, Israel Institute Visiting Professor, for […]
Songs for the Brokenhearted: Book Talk with Ayelet Tsabari
Berkeley Law Law Building, 215 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA, United StatesPublic Event Monday, October 21, 5:30–7 pm PT, 297 Goldberg Room, Berkeley Law Building Light Reception: 5–5:30 pm PT, Steinhart Courtyard, Berkeley Law Building Register: https://brokenhearted.rsvpify.com About this Lecture […]
Meaning-Making after Trauma
+1 morePublic Event Monday, October 28, 11 am–12:15 pm PT, Zoom Webinar Register https://berkeley.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4FRbhdgDQjaFaegSrcsxnw About this Webinar Keren Friedman-Peleg, Israeli psychological anthropologist, will join Rebecca Golbert, Helen Diller Institute Executive […]
Modeling Shared Society in Israel
297 Goldberg Room 225 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA, United StatesFriday, November 1, 12:30–2 pm, 297 Goldberg Room, Berkeley Law Building Register: https://sharedsociety.rsvpify.com Mohammad Darawshe is a leading expert on Jewish-Arab relations in Israel. He has devoted much of […]
Lunch Talk with Professor Hadar Aviram
110 Law BuildingEnjoy lunch and hear about Professor Aviram’s new book in progress, which is an effort to bridge ancient history, archaeology, theology, and modern penology to discuss the incarceration experience in […]
Israel/Palestine in World Religions: Whose Promised Land?
110 Law BuildingPublic Event Thursday, November 21, 6–7:30 pm, Room 110, Berkeley Law Building Register https://promisedland.rsvpify.com About this Lecture Ilan Troen, a founding scholar of the field of Israel studies, will […]
The Assault on Freedom of Communication in Israel following the October 7 Massacre and the Israel-Hamas War
297 Goldberg Room 225 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA, United StatesAmit Schejter, HDI Visiting Scholar and Professor of Communication Studies at Ben-Gurion University, will examine the two dramatic events that took place in Israel during 2023: a government attempt to […]
New Horizons in Jerusalem Studies: An Integrative Framework for the Analysis of the Development of Modern Jerusalem
297 Goldberg Room 225 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA, United StatesThis lecture presents new research that offers an integrative framework for analyzing Jerusalem’s modern development from the late Ottoman period to the present. The project utilizes a newly compiled database […]
What’s God Playing At? Law as Performance
105 Law BuildingIn late antiquity, some Jews began to think of the Torah as a natural law — absolute, immutable, and transcending historical time. Other ancient Jews, particularly the Talmudic rabbis, resisted […]
Sympotic Rabbis, Truth, and the Glorious Uncertainty of Law
297 Goldberg Room 225 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA, United StatesThe Talmud is famous for its labyrinthine debates and dialectical subversions. By situating the Talmud in the broad tradition of the late antique symposium, we gain insights into the rabbis’ […]
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