2 November – Rabbi Dr. Zvi Leshem – Parashat Noah
9 November – Nissim Sabato – Parashat Lech Lecha
16 November – Matan Barzilai – Parashat Vayeira
23 November – Tziyona Baruch Getahun – Parashat Hayei Sara
30 November – Dr. Ezra Chwat – Parashat Toldot
7 December – Daniel Lipson – Parashat Vayetzei
14 December – Rabbi Guy Avihod – Parashat Vayishlah
21 December – Dr. Raquel Ukeles – Parashat Vayeshev
28 December – Prof. Elchanan Reiner – Parashat Miketz / Hanuka
4 January – Rabbi Dr. Zvi Leshem – Parashat Vayigash
11 January – Rabbi Dr. Aviad Stollman– Parashat Vayekhi
18 January – Dr. Michael Gross – Parashat Shemot
25 January – Dr. Yochai Ben-Ghedalia – Parashat Va'era
1 February – Nissim Sabato – Parashat Bo
26.4 – Dr. Ezra Chwat - "The Meaning of the Flag's Colors: Blue and White in the Zohar
3.5 – Zachary Rothbart – "The Establishment of Yom HaAtzmaut as a Religious Holiday"
10.5 – Nissim Sabato – Parashat Emor
17.5 – Matan Barzilai – Parashat Behar-Behukotai
24.5 – Dr. Gila Flam – Parashat Bamidbar
29.5 – Dori Haneman – Parashat Naso/ Shavuot
7.6 – Dr. Milka Levy-Rubin – "The Ten Commandments"
14.6 – Rabbi Dr. Zvi Leshem – Parashat Shlakh Lekha
21.6 – Daniel Lipson – Parashat Korakh
28.6 – Rabbi Eliezer Lerner – Parashat Hukat
5.7 – Tsiyona Barukh Getahun – Parashat Balak
12.7 – Dr. Uri Melammed – Parashat Pinhas
19.7 – Dr. Daniella Talmon-Heller – "Moses, the Israelites and the Land of Canaan: The Quranic Version"
26.7 – Dr. Gila Flam – Parashat Devarim / Shabbat Hazon
02.8– Rabbi Guy Avihod – Parashat V'ethanan
09.8 – Dr. Ezra Chwat – Parashat Ekev
16.8 – Dr. Gabriel Wasserman – The Book of Daniel
23.8 – Rabbi Dr. Zvi Leshem – Parashat Shoftim
27.9 –
Dr. Michael Gross – Between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur
2.10 – Rabbi Dr. Zvi Leshem – Sukkot
18.10 – Dr. Gila Flam– Parashat Noakh
25.10 – Rabbi Yehiel Goldhaber – "The Implications of Changing Abraham's Name"
01.11 – Dr. Ezra Chwat – Vayera
08.11 – Rabbi Daniel Gutenmacher – Hayei Sara
15.11 – Zachary Rothbart – Parashat Toldot
22.11 – Mordecha Vaintrob – Parashat Vayetze: Why is this a 'Closed' Parasha?
06.12 – Nissim Sabato – Parashat Vayeshev
31.1 – Dr. Gila Flam – Tu B'Shvat/ Parashat Yitro
7.2 – Dr. Shirley Graetz – Parashat Mishpatim/Shabbat Shekalim
14.2– Leor Jacobi – Parashat Teruma
21.2 – Rabbi Dr. Zvi Leshem – Parashat Tetzve/ Shabbat Zachor
27.2 – Chaya Meier Herr – "For Purim" – Will take place in the Edelstein Room
7.3 – Dr. Miri Kahana – "Targum Jonathan on Parashat Para's Haftorah"
14.3 – Dr. Michael Gross – Parashat Vayikra / Shabbat HaHodesh
21.3 – Dr. Emmanuel Schieber – Parashat Tzav
26.3 – Rabbi Ari Chwat – For Passover
11.4 – Prof. Martin Lockshin – Parashat Tazria-Metzora
16.4 – Rabbi Dr. Zvi Leshem – "The Holiness of the Land of Israel and Yom Ha'atzmaut in Hasidut"
25.4 – Dr. Gabriel Wasserman – Parashat Emor
2.5 – Dr. Yochai Ben-Ghedalia – Parashat Behar/Log B'Omer [Berman Hall]
9.5 – Channa Lockshin-Bob – Parashat B'Hukotai/Jerusalem Day [Berman Hall]
16.5 – Yael Mali, author of "Reflected in art: artistic interpretations of weekly Torah portions" – Ruth the Zionist
23.5 – Daniel Lipson – Parashat Naso
30.5 – Rabbi Dr. Zvi Leshem – The Menorah: Who Is It?
6.6 – Nissim Sabato – Parashat Shlakh
13.6 – Ariel Seri-Levi – Parashat Korah and Parashat Dathan and Abiram
20.6 – Prof. Martin Lockshin – Parashat Korah and Parashat Dathan and Abiram
27.6 – Dr. Emmanuel Schieber – Parashat Balak
4.7 – Dr. Zohar Maor – From the Zealotry of Pinkhas to the Modesty Regulations of Gur Hassidim: A Study of "Beit Yisrael"
11.7 – Hayim Shemesh – "Commentary on 3:22"
25.7 – Rabbi Dr. Zvi Leshem – Tu B'Av: The Great Rectification
1.8 – Aviad Markovitz – (Dis-)Inheriting Our Fathers' Land: Rethinking the Rashba's Ban Against Philosophy
15.8 – Dr. Yoel Finkelman – Parashat Shoftim
22.8 – Dr. Gila Flam – Parashat Ki Tetze
29.8 – Nissim Sabato – Parashat Ki Tavo
5.9 – Rabbi Dr. Zvi Leshem – Parashat Nitzavim: Circumcision of the Heart and the Teshuva Process
13.9 – Rabbi Joshua Gerstein – Parashat Vayelekh and Shabbat Shuva
16.9 – Dr. Clinton Bailey – The Bedouin Origins of Sukkot
3.10 – Dr. David Cohen-Zemach – The Story of Creation as the Starting Point of the Torah
10.10 – Asa Keisar – "The Torah's attitude toward shedding the blood of animals"
17.10 – Dr. Gabriel Wasserman – Parashat Leck Lekha
24.10 – Dr. Yochai Ben-Ghedalia – The Binding of Ishmael; the Binding of Isaac
31.10 – Dr. Ezra Chwat – Parashat Chayei Sara
7.11 – Dr. Emmanuel Schieber – Toldot: Why did Esau Marry Ishmael's Daughter?
14.11 – Rabbi Dr. Zvi Leshem – Parashat Vayetze: "When One's Bashert Suddenly Appears"
21.11 – Dr. Moshe Goultschin – Parashat Vayishlakh
28.11 – Dr. Raquel Ukeles – "Crosspollination between Jewish and Islamic Traditions: The Story of Joseph"
5.12 – Rabbi Yechiel Goldhaber – "Types and categories of Hanukkah candles"
12.12 – Dr. Rivka Shveiky – Parashat Vayigash
19.12 – Nissim Sabato – Parashat Vayekhi
26.12 – Channa Lockshin-Bob – Parashat Shemot
02.01 – Rabbi Dr. Zvi Leshem – "Vaera: The Name of God as a Vehicle for Knowledge of the Divine"
09.01 –
Mordecha Vaintrob – Parashat Hashkem
16.01 – Dr. Ezra Chwat – Tu B'Shvat
23.01 – Daniel Lipson – Parashat Yitro
30.01 – Dr. Gila Flam– Parashat Mishpatim: The Oral Torah and the Written Torah
06.02 – Prof. Bracha Yaniv – The presentation of Temple utensils in the European synagogue
13.02 – Prof. Martin Lockshin – All that touches the altar is sanctified
20.02 – Dr. Aliza Moreno – Parashat Ki Tisa
27.02 – Dr. Emmanuel Schieber – The significance of the Tabernacle before and after the sin of the golden calf
06.03 – Matan Barzilai – Parashat Pekudei
13.03 – Dr. Gabriel Wasserman – Parashat Vayikra/Shabbat Zakhor
18.03 – Ayala Paz – Womanly wisdom – Esther's short sentence that saved her people
27.03 – Dr. Tirza Kalman – Parashat Shemini / Shabbat Para
03.04 – Erella No'ah Yedgar – The Exodus Story in Nechama Leibowitz's Teachings
10.04 – Channa Lockshin-Bob – On Passover
17.04 – Daniel Lipson – On Passover
01.05 – Rabbi Dr. Zvi Leshem – "Shoah and Faith: Hassidic Thought and the Holocaust"
06.05 –Monday. Prof. Rabbi Dalia Marx – "It Is My Appointed Time, But Only If You Say So": Between the Biblical Festivals and the Israeli "High Holy days"
29.05 – Dr. Aliza Moreno – Parashat Bamidbar
15.05.19 – Michal Lashansky – Parashat Behar
22.05.19 – Rabbi Yechiel Goldhaber – "For Log B'Omer: On Halakha in the Zohar"
29.05.19 – Rabbi Dr. Zvi Leshem – Bamidbar: darkness or light?
05.06.19 – Nissim Sabato – Parashat Naso / Shavuot
12.06.19 – Dr. Aliza Moreno – Parashat Behaalotecha
19.06.19 – Dr. Gabriel Wasserman – "Completion of the Book of Job"
26.06.19 – Dr. Emmanuel Schieber – Parashat Korakh
03.07.19 – Prof. Martin Lockshin – "Sanctifying God’s Name and Moses’ Sin"
10.07.19 – Prof. Oded Israeli – Parashat Balak
17.07.19 – Dr. Zohar Maor – 'The Question of the 17th of Tammuz in our Time'
24.7.19 – Daniel Lipson – Parashat Matot
31.7.19 – Channa Lockshin-Bob – Tisha B'Av
7.8.19 – Dr. Ezra Chwat – Parashat Masei
14.8.19 – Dr. Gila Flam – Ve'ethanan / Shabbat Nachamu
21.8.19 – Dr. David Cohen-Zemach – "Material and Spirit in Moses' World"
28.8.19 – Dr. Gabriel Wasserman – Parashat Re'eh
4.9.19 – Dr. Tamar Shadmi – "Law and justice poems on the walls of East European community rabbinic courts"
11.9.19 – Rabbi Dr. Zvi Leshem –"From Shame to Shining: Teshuva in the Writings of Rav Shagar zt”l"
18.9.19 – Erella No'ah Yedgar – "G-d's Leading Israel in the Desert - Readings in Parashat Ki- Tavo"
25.9.19 –
Dr. Tirza Kelman – Nitzavim/ Rosh Hashana
3.10.19 – Ariel Seri-Levi – Yom Kippur
10.10.19 – Prof. Edward Fram– Sukkot
23.10.19 – Dr. Emmanuel Schieber– Parashat Bereshit
30.10.19 – Dr. Ezra Chwat – Parashat Noakh
6.11.19 – Ayala Paz – Parashat Lek Lekha
13.11.19 – Zack Rothbart – "Parashat Vayera: Why Salt?"
20.11.19 – Dr. Miri Kahana – "Khayei Sara: Summarizing the Genealogy of Abraham"
27.11.19 – Rabbi Dr. Zvi Leshem – "Parshat Toldot: Special Education"
4.1.20 – Dr. Yochai Ben-Ghedalia– Parashat Vayetze
11.12.19 – Nachum Zitter – Parashat Vayishlakh
18.12.19 – Prof. Rabbi Dalia Marx – "Joseph and Gender Complexity"
25.12.20– Dr. Gabriel Wasserman – Hanuka Piyutim
1.1.20– Dr. Gila Flam – Parashat Vayigash
8.1.20– Erella No'ah Yedgar – "Parashat Vayekhi: Did the brothers really come to full reconciliation?"
15.1.20 – Prof. Martin Lockshin – "Parashat Shemot: “Her maidens were walking along the riverbank”
22.1.20 – Matan Barzilai – Parashat Va'era
