Workshop: Judaism in Private and Public

Occasional Workshop in Jewish Law, Thought, and Identity

Wednesday, April 3, 12:30 – 1:45 pm, 297 Goldberg Room, Berkeley Law Building 

Both in Israel and in America, Jewishness has become a more public activity and concern in the past century than in much of Jewish history. In Israel, Judaism is the stuff of the public square; and in the past half-century, American Jews have mirrored these behaviors as well. We will study some key texts from the late 20th century on the question of whether Jews should perform religious rituals in public — a question that went to the heart of American Jewish ideas about constitutional law, as well as American Jewish anxieties about their “at-homeness” in America — with an eye towards what these choices will continue to mean to the evolving American religious public sphere.

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