February 24, 2019
3:30 pm
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5:45 pm
Locations listed below
February 25, 2019
9:30 am
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4:45 pm
Locations listed below
February 26, 2019
9:00 am
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11:00 am
Locations listed below
ARCHIVED EVENT
The Melton Coalition for Creative Interaction is a joint project of the Melton Research Center of the Jewish Theological Seminary, the Melton Centre for Jewish Education of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and The Melton Center for Jewish Studies of the Ohio State University.
Among other activities, the Coalition sponsors a biennial conference on key issues of shared interest to Judaica scholars, scholars of Jewish education and Jewish educational practitioners. The conference venue rotates among the three institutions. Various projects—including publications and educational interventions emanate out of the conferences.
The theme of time in Jewish thought creates an opportunity to investigate a major topic in Jewish philosophy, history and religion through the disciplines of Jewish studies as well as through disciplines in the social sciences such as anthropology and social psychology. Time is also central to the practice of Jewish education. Scholars of different fields of Jewish studies can generate a depth of reflection on ideas about time, the Jewish holidays and their development and the ways in which these affect experience and identity. Scholars of Jewish education can provide an analysis of past and current educational practice and the assumptions about Jewish time that this practice embodies.
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Sunday, February 24 - Ohio Staters Inc. Founder’s Room, 2nd floor, Ohio Union
1739 N High St, Columbus, OH 43210
SESSION 1
3:00-3:30 PM Welcome and Introductions – Tamar Rudavsky, Meryll Page
3:30-4:15: Hannah Kosstrin, Assistant Professor of Dance, OSU
Bodily Memories, Kinesthetic Temporality: Functions of Jewish Time in Two Dance Films
4:15-5:00: Avinoam Rosenak, lecturer, Melton Center for Jewish Education and the Dept. for Jewish Thought, Hebrew University
Four Philosophical Notes on the Idea of Time: Ramifications for Jewish Education
5:00-5:45: Sarah Tauber, faculty, Davidson School of Jewish Education at JTS;
Hasidic Drushim on the Moadim: The Value of and Implications for Jewish Education in Pluralistic Jewish Settings
Monday, February 25 - Will Eisner Room, 2nd floor, Sullivant Hall
1813 N High St, Columbus, OH 43210
SESSION 2
9:00-9:30 AM Breakfast for participants
9:30-10:15 AM: Chaya Gorsetman, Clinical Associate Professor of Education, Stern College, Yeshiva University
Teaching the Jewish Holidays in Early Childhood Education: Tensions in a Constructivist Classroom
10:15-11:00 AM: Joseph Reimer, Associate Professor of Education, Brandeis University
Shabbat-at-Camp: An Evolving Ritual Practice
11:00-11:45 AM Tanya Zion-Waldoks, gender scholar, post-doctoral visiting fellow, Princeton University
Between ‘time’s up” and “as old as time”: reflections on Jewish-Orthodox feminism in Israel today
11:45-1:30 PM Lunch
SESSION 3
1:45-2:30 PM: Matt Goldish, Professor of History, OSU
Sage and Time: Renaissance Anachronism in Abraham Portaleone's 'Shilte Ha-Gibborim
2:30-3:15 PM: Lynn Kaye, Assistant Professor of Rabbinic Literature and Thought, Brandeis University
Sanctification and Nullification of Time Through Human Activity
3:15-3:30 Break
SESSION 4
3:30-5:15 PM Informal discussion; curriculum development
5:30 PM Dinner for participants
8:00 PM Piano concert, Or Yissachar, Weigel Hall.
Pianist Or Yissachar will give a recital entirely composed of contemporary music by Israeli composers since the 1970s, featuring pieces by Mr. Yissachar, OSU's own Jan Radzynski, Michael Damian, André Hajdu, Yehoshua Lakner, and Yosef Bardanashvilli.
This concert is free and open to the public.
Tuesday, February 26 – Interfaith Prayer & Reflection Room, 3rd Floor, Ohio Union
SESSION 5
8:30-9:00 AM: Breakfast for participants
9:00-9:45: Naomi Brenner, Associate Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Culture
Story Time: Serialization and Jewish Popular Fiction
9:45-10:30: Yonatan Cohen, the Bella and Israel Unterberg Professor of Jewish Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Dimension of Time in the Jewish Educational Thought of Joseph Lukinsky
10:30-11:15: Dr. Noga Baror-Bing, Hebrew University, Kerem Teachers Seminary at David Yellin College/Hartman Institute, the Mandel Institute
Jewish Identity in the context of time
11:15-12:00 PM lunch, conclusions and moving forward
Sessions are open to the public (except for meals). For more information, contact Lori Fireman.
