Advanced Learning Institute

Mondays - 9:30 am PT | 12:30 am ET
September 15, 22, 29 and October 6

In this four week course, we will explore the innovative and deeply influential work of four major Jewish theologians who engage with and challenge the history and traditions of Jewish thought, practice and religion.

Using the works of Nehama Leibowitz, Judith Plaskow, Rachel Adler and Tamar Ross - two Americans and two Israelis - we will trace the through lines of 20th century Jewish thinking and the changing goal posts of Judaism in the late 20th century.

Dr. Leah Hochman directs the Louchheim School for Judaic studies at the University of Southern California and serves as associate professor of Jewish Thought at Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles where she teaches classes in medieval and modern philosophy, American Judaism, modern history, and food ethics. She is the author of The Ugliness of Moses Mendelssohn: Aesthetics, Religion and Morality in the Eighteenth Century and the editor of Tastes of Faith: Jewish Eating in the United States.