Available Lecture Topics 

Jewish Liturgy:

• The Siddur: A Biography

• The Dynamics Shaping Jewish Prayer and Worship in Modernity

• Celebrating Torah -- (on the meanings embedded in Torah rituals and what this says about the ritual reading of Torah)

• The Bible in Jewish Life

• Illuminating Jewish Women’s Spirituality: Yiddish Prayers for Candlelighting

• Self and Other in Jewish Liturgy

• Constructing Memory in Jewish Liturgy

• The Origins and Meanings of the Birkat HaMinim

• Rabbis and the Ancient Synagogue

Jewish-Christian Relations:

• From Cursing the Christians to Eliminating Evil: The Censorship and Transformation of the Birkat HaMinim

• Dabru Emet: The 2000 Jewish Statement on Christians and Christianity

• A Jewish Reading of Nostra Aetate 4

• Jewish-Christian Relations in the Twenty-First Century (on issues in the contemporary dialogue)

• Toledot Yeshu: Understanding a Medieval Jewish Gospel Parody