Bar Kochba to Bibi: How Do the Jews Survive?

Speaker: Dr. Ori Soltes, Goldman Professorial Lecturer in Theology and Fine Arts at Georgetown University

Series: Haberman Distinguished Scholar Series

Date: January 15, 2020

Location: Temple Beth Ami, Rockville, MD 

As Judaism has evolved through the centuries, it has encountered diverse challenges to its survival, from internal to external. In part, these challenges reflect the question of what Judaism is — a religion, a nationality, an ethnicity, a culture, or a civilization? How do the dynamic tensions among these various identities, and between the will to conserve or to evolve, affect the Jewish future?