Scholar speaks at Princeton
Judy Klitsner, a senior lecturer at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, where she holds the Rabbi Joshua S. Bakst chair in Tanakh, recently led a teaching session at Princeton’s Center for Jewish Life.
Her talk, “Your Brother’s Blood is Crying: Biblical Origins of Our Fractured Society,” examined whether biblical stories of family strife provide us with hope for repairing our own society. Ms. Klitsner and students analyzed several sibling-centered stories in the book of Genesis to compare to narratives of Jewish people today, noting the enduring theme of fractiousness among siblings.
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