Fall 2025 Events at the Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law at Harvard Law School
Tuesday September 9, 12:15pm
Hauser Hall 105
Shaul Magid
Harvard University
“Violence, War, and Nationalism in Three Traditional Modern Jewish Thinkers:
Aaron Shmuel Tamares, Yoel Teitelbaum, and Abraham Isaac Kook”
Tuesday September 16,
4-8pm
Pound Hall 101
Co-hosted by:
James Loeffler
Johns Hopkins University
Noah Feldman
Harvard University
Wednesday September 17, 12:15pm
Hauser Hall 105
Avi Milikovsky
Israel Office of The State Attorney, High Court of Justice
“Israeli Supreme Court Jurisprudence on the Conscription of
Ultra-Orthodox Students: Recent Developments”
Monday October 20, 12:15pm
Wasserstein 3007
Robert Katz
Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law
“Antisemitism and the Law: A New Casebook”
Wednesday October 22, 4pm
Wasserstein 1023
Eliot Wolfson
UC Santa Barbara, Emeritus
“Mystical Nihilism, Theopolitics, Ethics,
and the Law beyond Law”
Thursday October 23, 12:15pm
Hauser Hall 101
Yahli Shereshevsky
Haifa University
“Bagatz and the War in Gaza”, Via Zoom
Monday October 27, 12:15pm
Hauser Hall 102
Justice Khaled Kabub
Israeli Supreme Court
Monday November 17, 12:15pm
Wasserstein 1010
Omer Bartov
Brown University
“The War in Gaza and Legal Definitions of Genocide”
Wednesday November 19, 12:15pm
Hauser Hall 105
Sarah Greenberg
Harvard University
“‘The Law is Not in Heaven’:
Authority and Covenant in Jewish Political Thought”
Tuesday November 25, 12:15pm
Hauser Hall 105
Jessica Marglin
Harvard University
“The Shamama Case:
Contesting Citizenship Across the Modern Mediterranean |
How a nineteenth-century lawsuit over the estate of a wealthy Tunisian Jew
shines new light on the history of belonging“
December 14-16
Washington DC
Moderators:
Christine Hayes, Yale University
Jay Harris, Harvard University
Discussants:
Julia Watts Belser, Georgetown University Alyssa Gray, Hebrew union College
Simcha Gross, University of Pennsylvania
Isaac Landes, The Jewish Theological Seminary
Association for Jewish Studies Roundtable
“What is the Bavli?”
Organized by the Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Lawat Harvard Law School