The Lubavitcher Rebbe - Life, Teachings and Impact
This event was made possible through the generous donations of
Craig & Deborah Cogut and George & Pamela Rohr
9th Floor, Kimmel Center at NYU
60 Washington Square South
Please call 212-998-8981 or email Shayne Figueroa to reserve a place for Sunday and please indicate
which session(s) you will be attending.
Welcome Remarks
1:30pm
Lawrence H. Schiffman
Chair, Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, NYU
Catharine Stimpson
Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, NYU
Elliot Wolfson
"Sources and Methods"
Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, NYU
Scholar of the Jewish Tradition
2:00pm - 4:00pm
Chair - Naftali Loewenthal, University of London
Chaim Rapoport, London England
The Rebbe's Commentary on Rashi: Some Initial Reflections
Lawrence H. Schiffman, New York University
The Rebbe as a Torah Scholar: Synthesis and Unity
Ephraim Kanarfogel, Yeshiva University
Respondent
The Rebbe and the Habad Movement
4:30pm - 6:30pm
Chair - Nehemia Polen, Boston Hebrew College
Yitzhak Kraus, Bar-Ilan University
The Rebbe's Ideology and the Habad Movement
Stephanie Wellen Levine, Tufts University
The Habad Community
Ada Rapoport-Albert, University of London
The Jewish Woman: From Housewife to Teacher and Leader
Philip Wexler, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Respondent.
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Education and the Modern Intellectual Context
9:00am - 11:00am
Chair - Robert Chazan, New York University
Aryeh Solomon, University of Sydney
The Rebbe's Educational Philosophy
Barry Chazan, Hebrew University
Habad, Education and Outreach
Jacob Immanuel Schochet, Humber College
The Rebbe, Science and Philosophy
Reuven Kimelman, Brandeis University
Respondent
Continuing the Mystical Chain
11:00am - 1:00pm
Chair - Jeffrey Rubenstein, New York University
Shaul Magid, University of Indiana - Bloomington
Infalibility, Human Worship and Religious Deviance: Lubavitch "Rebbeism" and It's Proto-Jewish Origins
Nehemia Polen, Boston Hebrew College
Mysticism as a Factor in Leadership and Decision-making
Allan Nadler, Drew University
Mitnagdic Opposition to the Rebbe
Jay Harris, Harvard University
Respondent
Medium and Message
2:30pm - 4:30pm
Chair - Philip Wexler, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Judah Cohen, New York University
Encouraging the Arts
Mark Kligman, Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion
Music and the Rebbe
Kate Miriam Loewenthal, University of London
The Rebbe and Psychology
Ari Y. Kelman, Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion
Respondent
Hasidism in the Modern Jewish World
4:30pm - 6:30pm
Chair - Mark Kligman, Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion
Gershon Greenberg, American University
In the Shadow of the Holocaust
Nathaniel Deutsch, Swarthmore College
Habad as an American Religious Movement
Adam Ferziger, Bar-Ilan University
The Rebbe, Rabbi Aharon Kotler, and the 'Habadization' of American Orthodoxy
Hasia R. Diner, New York University
Respondent
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60 Washington Square South
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The Wider World
9:00am - 11:00am
Chair - Judah Cohen, New York University
William Helmreich, City University of New York
Relation to Jewish Communal Organizations and Religious Movements
Shimon Cowen, Monash University - Melbourne
Embracing the Non-Jewish World
Jeffrey Shandler, Rutgers University
Habad, Menachem Mendel Schneerson and the Media
Jan L. Feldman, University of Vermont
Respondent
The Rebbe, Mysticism and PhilosophyThe Search for Redemption
11:00am - 1:00pm
Chair - Dov Schwartz, Bar-Ilan University
Moshe Hallamish, Bar-Ilan University
The Rebbe and the Tanya
Alan Brill, Yeshiva University
The Rebbe as a Modern Thinker
Elliot Wolfson, New York University
Secret of the Secret: Esotericism in Menachem Mendel Schneerson's Kabbalah
Norman Lamm, Yeshiva University
Respondent
2:30pm - 4:30pm
Chair - Ada Rapoport-Albert, University of London
M. Avrum Ehrlich, University of Shandong
The Messianism of of Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Naftali Loewenthal, University of London
Habad, the Rebbe and the Messiah in the 21st century
Dov Schwartz, Bar-Ilan University
Philosophy vs. Personality: Moderate Trends in R. Menahem-Mendel's Messianism
Yaakov Ariel, University of North Carolina
Respondent
Concluding Remarks
Lawrence H. Schiffman, New York University
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