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Community Text Study Program

Community Text Study Program

Join our Community Text Study Program

Meetings twice a month September through April

The Melton Center’s community text study program offers participants the opportunity to study Jewish topics from an academic perspective. The sessions are held twice a month on Zoom during the academic year, are 1.5 hours long, and are led by our faculty.

Last year we studied a range of topics that included: historical approaches to Italian Jewish humanists in the Renaissance; medieval Jewish perspectives on the bible as literature and the Israel-Hamas War, to name a few.

There are short reading assignments before each session, and there is no cost to join.

Community Text Study Schedule Winter/Spring 2026

January 21 and 28, 2026:

The Scar and the Sacrifice: Homer, Genesis, and Jewish Readers of Greek Antiquity

Harriet Fertik and Ben Folit-Weinberg

Feb 4 and 18, 2026:

Israel, Gaza, and a Palestinian State: Where are we and where are we headed?

Don Sylvan

Mar 4, 2026:

Karaite and Rabbinic polemics/ interpretation.

Armand Rogers, Melton Fellow

March 11, 2026:

TBA

Apr 15, 2026: 

Democracy and the judicial crisis in Israel

and

Apr 29, 2026: Memory and national identity in Israel

Ori Yehudai

For more information contact Tamar Becker, becker.905@osu.edu.