Temple Beth Rishon

What can Judaism contribute to our ethical understanding of the world around us? What might it have to say about contemporary prisoner exchanges in Israel? Or about Occupy Wall Street? Can there even be such a thing as Jewish Ethics? In this course we'll look at practical and philosophical ethical questions through the prism of Jewish texts ancient and modern.

Dr. Rynhold is Associate Professor of Modern Jewish Philosophy at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies at Yeshiva University. He arrived in the US from London, England in 2007 and has taught for the past 3 years at the Skirball Center for Adult Jewish Education at Temple Emanuel in Manhattan. TBR members have become acquainted with Dr. Dan through his work with our own Hebrew High School students.

Dr. Dan, as our teenagers call him, was Professor of Judaism in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at King’s College, London from 2001 to 2007 and taught for two years at Jew’s College of London. He has published two books: Two Models of Jewish Philosophy: Justifying One’s Own Practices (2005) and An Introduction to Medieval Jewish Philosophy (2009), and articles on The Problem of Evil, Nietzsche and Jewish Philosophy and the thought of Moses Maimonides and Joseph B. Soloveitchik.

There is no charge for this course. All reading and discussion will be in English.

NOTE: There will be no class on February 23.