SHIURIM

Shiurim Given

1. Chanukah: Jew v Jew, Jew v Greek
2. Purim: Fact and Fantasy
3. Purim: Megillah of Esther: It's vagueness is its power
4. Shavuot: History and Development
5. Shavuot: Torah or Rabbinic Judaism
6. TuB'Shvat: History and Development
7. Tisha B'Av: 3 weeks, 9 days and 2000 years
8. Tisha B'Av: Eastern European Jewry; Then and Now
9. Rosh Hashanah: From Biblical obscurity to the head of the year
10. Yom Kippur: Unetaneh Tokef, Background, spirituality and development
11. Yom Kippur: Kol Nidrei, what is it all about?, Franz Rosenzweig and SR Hirsch
12. Yom Kippur: Creative Repentance and Rav Soloveitchik
13. Succot: A universal festival
14. VeTen bracha
15. Noah: The Jew: Chosen by God, Rejected by Man.
16. Va'era: Free Will in contemporary religious thought
17. Vayishlach: Juxtaposition to Chanukah
18. Shemot: A family becomes a Nation
19. Mishpatim: Attitude in Catholic and Jewish theology regarding the foetus
20. Remnant Theory
21. Jewish Prayer: Av Harachamim: Individual Responsibility and CommunalIdentity
22. Memory and Remembrance
23. Development of the reading of the Law
24. Ten Commandments or are there fourteen?
25. The shape of the tablets of the Ten Commandments: Christian influence on the Synagogue