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Conferences
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February 22-24, 1998
Welcome and Introduction -
Lawrence Sullivan, Harvard Center for the Study of World Religions
Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim, Bucknell University
Steven Shaw, Jewish Theological Seminary
Moshe Sokol, Touro College
Moderator - Michael Paley, UJA Federation, New York
Ismar Schorsch, Jewish Theological Seminary
Judaism and Nature: Some Critical Reflections
Lawrence Rasmussen, Union Theological Seminary:
New Directions in Theological Ethics, Nature and the Environment - ABSTRACT
J. Baird Callicott, University of North Texas
Current Issues in Environmental Philosophy - ABSTRACT
Toward a Contemporary Jewish Theology of the Natural World
Moderator - Mitchell Thomashow, Antioch New England Graduate Center
Michael Fishbane, University of Chicago
Arthur Green, Brandeis University
Nature in Winter: A Brief Ecological Field Trip (Part I)
Steve Shaw, Dan Swartz, and Michal Smart
Chair - Everett Gendler, Andover, Massachusetts
Yehuda Gellman, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel:
Buber's Bluff: On the Attitude of Early Hasidism to the World and Nature - ABSTRACT
Shaul Magid, Jewish Theological Seminary:
Nature and Disability: The Natural World in Nahman of Bratzlav's "Tale of The Seven Beggars" - ABSTRACT
Elliot Wolfson, New York University:
The Mirror of Nature in the Jewish Mystical Tradition - ABSTRACT
Respondent - Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Indiana University
Nature and Moral Obligation: Theoretical Perspectives
Chair - Roger Gottlieb, Worcester Polytechnical Institute
Lenn Evan Goodman, Vanderbilt University
Respect for Nature in the Jewish Tradition - ABSTRACT
Shalom Rosenberg, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Torah and Nature: On the Functionality of "Nature" - ABSTRACT
Moshe Sokol, Touro College
What are the Ethical Implications of Jewish Theological Conceptions of Nature? - ABSTRACT
Respondent - Barry Kogan, Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati
The Bible through an Ecological Prism
Daniel Hillel, Center for Environmental Studies, Karkur, Israel
The Bible through an Ecological Prism
Nature and Human Obligation: Biblical and Theological Reflections
Chair - Eric Katz, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Tsvi Blanchard, CLAL
Can Judaism Make Environmental Policy? Sacred and Secular Language in Jewish Environmental Discourse - ABSTRACT
Evan Eisenberg, Leverett, Massachusetts
The Ecology of Eden - ABSTRACT
Tikva Frymer-Kensky, University of Chicago
"Leshev" and Gaia: The Limits of Biblical Ecology - ABSTRACT
Respondent - Eilon Schwartz, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Chair - David Shatz, Yeshiva University
Stephen Geller, Jewish Theological Seminary
Nature's Answer: Creation and Theodicy in the Bible - ABSTRACT
Neil Gillman, Jewish Theological Seminary
Liturgical Transformations of the Creation Stories - ABSTRACT
David Novak, University of Toronto
The Doctrine of Creation and the Idea of Nature - ABSTRACT
Respondent - Jon Levenson, Harvard University
An Evening with Edward O. Wilson, Harvard University
Chair - Paul Gorman, National Religious Partnership for the Environment
Nature in Winter: A Brief Ecological Field Trip (Part II)
Steve Shaw, Dan Swartz, and Michal Smart
Chair - David Szonyi, Jewish Theological Seminary
Benjamin Ish Shalom, Bet Morasha, Jerusalem
Nature in the Thought of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook - ABSTRACT
Edward Kaplan, Brandeis University
Reverence and Responsibility: Abraham Joshua Heschel on Nature and The Self - ABSTRACT
Respondent - Susan Shapiro, Columbia University
Nature and the Environment: Perspectives from the Rabbinic Tradition
Chair - Lawrence Troster, CLAL
Eliezer Diamond, Jewish Theological Seminary
How Much Is Too Much? The Problem of Conventional Versus Individual Pollution Standards in Rabbinic Law - ABSTRACT
David Kraemer, Jewish Theological Seminary
Jewish Death Practices: A Commentary on the Relationship of Humans to the Natural World - ABSTRACT
Respondent - Saul Berman, Yeshiva University
The Engaged Community: Reflections by Jewish Environmental Practitioners
Chair - Rachel Cowan, The Nathan Cummings Foundation
Daniel Swartz, National Religious Partnership for the Environment
Mark Jacobs, Coalition on the Environment & Jewish Life
Michal Smart, Camp Isabella Freedman
Jeremy Benstein, Heschel Center for Nature Studies, Israel
