See past events hosted by Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law.
FALL 2026 EVENTS
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 · 12:15 PM · LEWIS HALL ROOM 202
Miriam Anzovin
The Daf Reactions Project
Moderated by Noah Feldman
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 · 12:15 PM · GRISWOLD HALL ROOM 110
Grzegorz Kwiatkowski
Art, Human Rights, and Memory Activism: Poetry, Music, and Testimony from the Fortunoff Archive
Moderated by Abadir M. Ibrahim
CO-SPONSORED BY THE HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRAM AT HLS
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 · 12:15 PM · HAUSER HALL ROOM
105
Michal Bar-Asher Siegal — Caroline Zelaznik Gruss and Joseph S. Gruss Visiting Professor in
Talmudic Civil Law, HLS, Fall 2026
Did Words on the Wall Matter More? Public Scripture and Jewish–Christian Encounters in the First
Centuries CE
Moderated by Noah Feldman
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13 · 12:15 PM · HAUSER HALL ROOM 104
Nitsan Plitman — SJD Candidate, HLS
The Enshrinement of Torah Study in Israel’s Basic Laws: A New Constitutional Chapter
Moderated by Noah Feldman
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3 · 12:15 PM · HAUSER HALL ROOM
105
Anat Ovadia-Rosner — Visiting Scholar, HLS
A Non-Market Paradigm for Anti-Discrimination: The Forgotten Story of Israel’s 1959 Employment
Service Law
Moderated by Sharon Block, Executive Director, Institute
for a Just Economy, HLS
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18 · 12:15 PM · HAUSER HALL ROOM 101
Gabriel Abensour — Junior Research Fellow, Kogod Research Center, Shalom Hartman Institute
Halakha after Colonization: Rabbinic Responses to French Civil Law in Colonial Algeria
Moderated by Jessica Marglin, Jacob E. Safra Professor of Jewish History and Sephardic Civilization
at Harvard
CO-SPONSORED WITH THE CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES AT HARVARD
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2 · 12:15 PM · HAUSER HALL ROOM 101
Adan Ersheid — Visiting Scholar, HLS
Constituting Communities: Religion, Law, and Minority Identities in Jewish and Islamic Law
Moderated by Jessica Marglin