Recent years have witnessed an impressive outpouring of important new work in contemporary Jewish theology. In this Spotlight Session, we gather four leading scholars, each of whom has recently produced an important work of Jewish theology, to think together about the implications of their ideas for Jewish education.

This webinar features the following panelists in discussion with Jon Levisohn (Brandeis University) about their books:

• Julia Watts Belser (Georgetown University): Loving Our Own Bones: Disability Wisdom and the Spiritual Subversiveness of Knowing Ourselves Whole
• Mara Benjamin (Mount Holyoke College): The Obligated Self: Maternal Subjectivity and Jewish Thought
• Yonatan Brafman (Tufts University): Critique of Halakhic Reason: Divine Commandments and Social Normativity
• Shai Held (Hadar Institute): Judaism is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life

Originally recorded: 5/1/25

At the Mandel Center, we are committed to advancing the field of Jewish educational scholarship, especially scholarship on teaching and learning, in order to make a deep and lasting difference on the lives of learners and the vibrancy of the Jewish community. That’s our mission.

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Learning About Learning is a production of the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education at Brandeis University, and is engineered and edited by Nathan J. Vaughan of NJV Media LLC.