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MondayMarch5thSchedule:

EachstudentwillattendoneGeneralandoneJudaicsessioninaddition toageneralintroductorysessionandkeynoteaddress.

10:3511:15Period4:Introductorysession 11:2012:00Period5:SessionA 12:0512:45Period6:SessionB 12:501:30Period7:Lunch 1:352:15Period8:KeynoteAddressfollowedbyMincha 2:203:00Period9:RegularClasses


KeynoteSpeaker:ProfessorElliStern YaleUniversity,AssistantProfessorof ModernJewishIntellectualandCultural History;JudaicStudies,ReligiousStudiesandHistory


SessionsGeneralStudies

SessionsJudaicStudies

1. Ms. Susan Litwack Summerhill: Utopian 1. Ms.YosephaSheinbeinMashiachbenYosef and Mashiach ben David: Two Messianic education where students make the policy figures andtheteachersfollow 2. Ms Zahava Slonim Global Warming and 2. R.HillelRapp"DawnOfOurDeliverance: Climate Change: What scientist think the ModernIsraelandMessianicMoment planetwilllooklikeinthefuture 3. Mr. Ira Miller Poet as Prophet: Across 3. Dr. Jerry Zeitchik There is no difference CulturesandTime between today and the Messianic Era: Maimonides rationalist approach to Messinaism 4. Mr. Jay Klotz Not with a bang, but a 4. R YigalSklarinAre Jews allowedto actively whimper try to bring the redemption: A 16th century casestudy 5. Dr.JoshGaylord : TheWalking 5. R Ilan Schimmel: Will nonJews be saved during the Apocalypse and do they have a Dead placeintheworldtocome? 6. Mr Tom Kuck: William Blake: Building the 6. R Kenny Schiowitz Why I don't care about NewJerusalem theApocalypse 7. R Shlomo Stochel Olam Haba, Yemot HaMashiach, Techiyat HaMeitim: What HappensWhenandtoWhom?

Topic:Messianism,Missionaries, andZionismfromMenahemMendel ofShklovtoJohnHagee



ElliSternreceivedhisPh.D.fromUniversityofCalifornia,Berkeleyin2008.From20092010he was Junior William Golding Fellow in the Humanities at Brasenose College and the Oriental Institute,UniversityofOxford.Heresearchesthetransformationanddevelopmentoftraditional and religious worldviews in Western life and thought. In particular, he focuses on modern EasternEuropeanJewry,Zionism,secularism,andreligiousradicalism.Currently,heisfinishing abookentitledTheGenius:ElijahofVilnaandtheMakingofModernJudaismtobepublishedby Yale University Press in 2012. His courses include Secularism: From the Enlightenment to the Present, Modern Jewish Intellectual History, and Law and Ethics in Modern Judaism. His most recentarticleisGeniusandDemographicsinModernJewishHistory,JQR(Summer,2011).

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