As part of a pair of programs featuring open dialogue about issues related to the Middle East, Radcliffe Dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin sat down with Noah Feldman to discuss his new book, To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2024).
Released on March 6, 2025.
Guests
Tomiko Brown-Nagin is the dean of Harvard Radcliffe Institute, the Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School, and a professor of history in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
Noah Feldman is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law and founding director of the Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law at Harvard Law School.
David Stern is the Harry Starr Professor of Classical and Modern Jewish and Hebrew Literature and a professor of comparative literature at Harvard University. He was the 2011–2012 Beatrice Shepherd Blane Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute.
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