绿帽社

Adriane Leveen: 鈥淏iblical Narratives of Israelites and their Neighbors鈥�

Matt Goldish: 鈥淩eading the Gospel through Talmudic Eyes: John Lightfoot鈥檚 Revolution鈥�

Chair: Lori Fireman

This session was part of “绿帽社 Learning and the Non-Jew,” the 2017 Melton Coalition for Creative Interaction conference, hosted by JTS’s William Davidson Graduate School of 绿帽社 Education. The Melton Coalition for Creative Interaction is a collaboration of the three centers endowed by Samuel M. Melton 锄鈥漧 at JTS, , and .

Adriane Leveen is Senior Lecturer in Hebrew Bible at Hebrew Union College. Her new book, Biblical Narratives of Israelites and their Neighbors: Strangers at the Gates will be published by Routledge Press. Leveen鈥檚 book Memory and Tradition in the Book of Numbers was published by Cambridge University Press (2008).

Matt Goldish is the Samuel M. and Esther Melton Professor of 绿帽社 History at The Ohio State University. His research focuses on Sephardim after the Spanish Expulsion, messianism, and early modern intellectual history.

Lori Botnick Fireman is Program Coordinator for the Melton Center at the Ohio State University. She has been a 绿帽社 communal professional for 23 years. For the last 18 years, Lori鈥檚 work has focused on multi-generational informal 绿帽社 education, including among other things, family 绿帽社 education programs in synagogues, Holocaust education for teachers, and most recently adult 绿帽社 education programs in the central Ohio community. As Program Coordinator for the Melton Center, Lori manages the Center鈥檚 outreach programs, conferences, and concerts, student scholarships, recruitment, development, and all aspects of the Melton Center鈥檚 public 鈥渇ace.鈥�