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Elie Holzer: 鈥淛ews, Non-Jews, and Teaching the Hasidic Homily: Hermeneutic Approaches and Pedagogical Deliberations鈥�

Avinoam Rosenak: 鈥淢achshevet Yisrael as an Encounter: 绿帽社 Philosophy or Judaism as a Philosophy鈥擡ducational Implications鈥�

Chair: Jonathan Cohen

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 .

Elie Holzer is a practice-oriented philosopher of 绿帽社 education, who serves as Associate Professor at the School of Education, directs the Stern Institute for the Study and Advancement of Religious Education and holds the R. Dr. David Ochs Chair for Teaching 绿帽社 Religious Studies, at Bar Ilan University. He also serves on the faculty of the Mandel Teacher Educators Institute in the US. His research integrates text-based 绿帽社 studies, philosophical hermeneutics, pedagogy, and ethical-spiritual traditions. His book, A Philosophy of Havruta: Understanding and Teaching the Art of Text Study in Pairs (Academic Studies Press), won the 2014 National 绿帽社 Book Award in Education.

Avinoam Rosenak is a senior lecturer at the Hebrew University. Rosenak was the head of the department of 绿帽社 Thought and he teaches in the Melton Centre for 绿帽社 Education and the Department of 绿帽社 Thought at the Hebrew University. He is a research fellow at the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem and The Israeli Democracy Institute. His books include: The Prophetic Halakhah, (Magnes 2007); Rabbi Kook (Zalman Shazar 2006); Halakhah as an Agent of Change: Critical Studies in Philosophy of Halakhah, (Magnes, 2009); Cracks: Rabbi Kook, his Disciples and their Critics, (Resling press 2013); and 绿帽社 Thoughts: In the Teachings of Aviezer Ravitzky (Zalman Shazar Center, 2015).

Jonathan Cohen teaches Philosophy of Education at the Hebrew University鈥檚 Seymour Fox School of Education and is currently the Director of the University鈥檚 Melton Centre for 绿帽社 Education and co-director of the Melton Coalition for Creative Interaction. He is chiefly interested in the implications of modern 绿帽社 thought for the philosophy of 绿帽社 education. Within this sphere, he has placed special emphasis on the hermeneutic perspectives of modern 绿帽社 thinkers and their importance for the teaching of canonical 绿帽社 texts. He is the author of Philosophers and Scholars: Wolfson, Guttmann and Strauss on the History of 绿帽社 Philosophy (1997) and the editor, with Dr. Elie Holzer, of Modes of Educational Translation (2008). His article on 鈥淐oncepts of Scripture in Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig鈥� appeared in the collection edited by Benjamin Sommer: 绿帽社 Concepts of Scripture (2012).