Professor Adam S. Ferziger - Scholar in Residence
March 17-18, 2017
Professor Adam S. Fergizer
Professor Adam S. Ferziger grew up in Riverdale, New York, and attended SAR, Ramaz, and YU. He teaches in the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, Bar-Ilan University, where he holds the S.R. Hirsch Chair for Research of the Torah with Derekh Erez Movement, and is a senior associate at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. His first academic position at Bar-Ilan was as the Gwendolyn and Joseph Straus Fellow in Jewish Studies. Subsequently he received Bar-Ilan's "Outstanding Lecturer Award." His most recent book, Beyond Sectarianism: The Realignment of American Orthodox Judaism, won the 2015 National Jewish Book Award.
Friday Night,
TOPIC: "Feminism and Heresy and the Future of American Orthodoxy"
Shabbat Morning after services, in The Straus Main Sanctuary
TOPIC: "Beyond Sectarianism: The Realignment of American Orthodoxy"
Shabbat Afternoon, 1 hour before Mincha
TOPIC: "On Fragmentary Judaism: The Jewish 'Other' in the Worldview of Rabbi Dr. Aharon Lichtenstein"
Shabbat Afternoon at Seudah Shlisheet
TOPIC: "Beyond Religion and Politics: The Role of Modern Orthodoxy in Israeli Judaism"