Freedom and Faith: The Ten Commandments in Contemporary American Society
Freedom and Faith: The Ten Commandments in Contemporary American Society
Is it possible to legislate religious values? The Ten Commandments have become a symbol of public tension, religious division, and means to be an American. Join the Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies on Family Weekend for an enlightening discussion of the legal, historical, and religious significance of biblical law-- and its place in contemporary society. The discussion will be moderated by Prof. Max Grossman.
Rabbi Ari Israel is in his twenty ninth year as a Hillel Executive Director and returned in 2003 from Rochester, NY to Silver Spring, MD where he grew up, to work at the University of Maryland Hillel. In addition to Rabbinic ordination, Ari has Masters Degrees in Medieval Jewish History as well as Secondary Education. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland, teaching a course on Jewish Leadership and Community.
Jen Gartner is the University's Deputy General Counsel. She is a graduate of the University of Delaware (B.A., 1998); the George Washington University Law School (J.D., 2001), where she served as Senior Managing Editor of the Public Contract Law Journal; and Norwich University (M.P.A., 2005). Raised in Baltimore, Jen is the child and grandchild of Holocaust survivors who fled to the U.S. and quickly joined the fight for civil rights for all Americans. Her family background inspired Jen to become an attorney and swear an oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution. Jen joined the University of Maryland, College Park in April 2013. In addition to her legal practice, for over 15 years, Jen has taught courses in administrative law, constitutional law, environmental law, regulatory compliance, negotiations, and federal contracting. Jen's primary portfolio at the University includes ethics law, sponsored research, regulatory compliance, risk management, health law, university policies and procedures, and other transactional matters. Jen has been in higher education for over 20 years and is proud to be a member of our diverse campus community.
Matthew Suriano specializes in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, ancient Near Eastern religions, Northwest Semitic epigraphy, and the archaeology of the Levant. His first book The Politics of Dead Kings: Dynastic Ancestors in the Book of Kings and Ancient Israel (Mohr Siebeck, 2010) examined the motifs used to describe a king's death. His recent book, A History of Death in the Hebrew Bible (Oxford University Press, 2018), which won ASOR's Frank Moore Cross Award, looks more broadly at death and burial in biblical literature. His current projects includes a study of Iron Age monolithic-tombs in Jerusalem, MMO:VAS, a new edition of Hebrew funerary inscriptions from Iron Age Judah for the Society of Biblical Literature's series Writings from the Ancient World (with Jacqueline Vayntrub), and a project on the Book of Kings.
Meyerhoff Center celebrates 50 Years of Jewish Studies!
Is it possible to legislate religious values? The Ten Commandments have become a symbol of public tension, religious division, and means to be an American. Join the Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies on Family Weekend for an enlightening discussion of the legal, historical, and religious significance of biblical law-- and its place in contemporary society. The discussion will be moderated by Prof. Max Grossman.
Rabbi Ari Israel is in his twenty ninth year as a Hillel Executive Director and returned in 2003 from Rochester, NY to Silver Spring, MD where he grew up, to work at the University of Maryland Hillel. In addition to Rabbinic ordination, Ari has Masters Degrees in Medieval Jewish History as well as Secondary Education. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland, teaching a course on Jewish Leadership and Community.
Jen Gartner is the University's Deputy General Counsel. She is a graduate of the University of Delaware (B.A., 1998); the George Washington University Law School (J.D., 2001), where she served as Senior Managing Editor of the Public Contract Law Journal; and Norwich University (M.P.A., 2005). Raised in Baltimore, Jen is the child and grandchild of Holocaust survivors who fled to the U.S. and quickly joined the fight for civil rights for all Americans. Her family background inspired Jen to become an attorney and swear an oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution. Jen joined the University of Maryland, College Park in April 2013. In addition to her legal practice, for over 15 years, Jen has taught courses in administrative law, constitutional law, environmental law, regulatory compliance, negotiations, and federal contracting. Jen's primary portfolio at the University includes ethics law, sponsored research, regulatory compliance, risk management, health law, university policies and procedures, and other transactional matters. Jen has been in higher education for over 20 years and is proud to be a member of our diverse campus community.
Matthew Suriano specializes in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, ancient Near Eastern religions, Northwest Semitic epigraphy, and the archaeology of the Levant. His first book The Politics of Dead Kings: Dynastic Ancestors in the Book of Kings and Ancient Israel (Mohr Siebeck, 2010) examined the motifs used to describe a king's death. His recent book, A History of Death in the Hebrew Bible (Oxford University Press, 2018), which won ASOR's Frank Moore Cross Award, looks more broadly at death and burial in biblical literature. His current projects includes a study of Iron Age monolithic-tombs in Jerusalem, MMO:VAS, a new edition of Hebrew funerary inscriptions from Iron Age Judah for the Society of Biblical Literature's series Writings from the Ancient World (with Jacqueline Vayntrub), and a project on the Book of Kings.
Meyerhoff Center celebrates 50 Years of Jewish Studies!
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