“The Center for Advanced Judaic Studies has established a new school in Judaic studies, a school renowned for its groundbreaking interdisciplinary approach, its unique communal learning environment, and its profound commitment to merging Jewish past and present. Breaking through traditional academic detachment, the center produces research both deeply grounded in classical sources and highly relevant to contemporary life.”
- Prof.
Avi Sagi, Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Advisory Committee
“The center’s work with members of other religions is truly unique. It is not interfaith dialogue; we’re not out to discover what we share, but rather to capitalize on our differences. Jews, Christians and Muslims each enjoy the contribution of otherness to their own reflective enterprise. There is nothing more exhilarating than someone who can hear voices in your own faith to which you yourself have become deaf.”
- Prof.
Menachem Fisch, International Theology Conference Advisory Committee
Jews today live in an open marketplace of ideas, ideologies and lifestyles, and must constantly ensure the relevance and vitality of their heritage by bridging the values of the Jewish tradition with the realities of the modern world. Judaism must be receptive to critical thinking, contemporary scholarship, and interdisciplinary exchange.
The Center for Advanced Judaic Studies is home to more than 40 distinguished scholars of multiple disciplines and denominations, including some of the finest minds in contemporary Judaic scholarship. It is committed to exploring new directions of Jewish philosophy, theology and sociology, and serves as a hotbed for the cultivation of innovative ideas, a scholarly community for prominent academics, and a source of a wide range of publications.
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