Exile: The Secret of Jewish Survival
Chaim Seidler-Feller
Chaim Seidler-Feller is the Executive Director of the Yitzhak Rabin Hillel Center for Jewish Life at UCLA and Director of the Hartman Fellowship for Campus Professionals. Heis a lecturer in the Departments of Sociology and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA and in the Department of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University. He is a faculty member of the Wexner Heritage Foundation. He received was ordination from Yeshiva University where he completed a Masters in Rabbinic Literature.
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Through a variety of texts – Biblical, Rabbinic, Hasidic and Homiletic – we will explore an alternative and innovative theological framework for understanding Jewish history. How has Exile had a determinative impact on the development of Judaism while constituting a distinctively Jewish conceptual contribution to civilization?