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Academy for Jewish Religion Media Center


The following is an opportunity to hear AJR, CA lectures and, more specifically, to get a sense of the kind of dynamic, passionate, and intellectually stimulating dialogues that are a hallmark of the Academy.


Sunday Evening Shiur
Featuring: Alan Morinis, author of Everyday Holiness
November 15, 2009

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Lecture: The Duty to Heal and to Seek Healing: When do we say 'Enough is enough?'

Featuring: AJR, CA President, Rabbi Mel Gottlieb, PhD (moderator); Panelists - Jacob Zighelboim, MD, AJR, CA Professor of Philosophical Thought; Rabbi Eli Schochet, PhD, AJR, CA Professor of Talmud; Rabbi and Psychotherapist Anne Brener, AJR, CA Professor of Ritual and Human Development; and Julie Madorsky, MD, AJR, CA Board of Directors

October 25, 2009

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Lecture: Understanding the Mystical Meanings of Your Dreams

Featuring: Tamar Frankiel, PhD, AJR, CA Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor of Comparative Religion

February 17, 2009

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Lecture: Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die: Jewish Medical Ethics in the 21st Century

Featuring: Rabbi Elijah Schochet, PhD, AJR, CA Professor of Talmud

November 18, 2008

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