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Saturday, February 15 • 8:15pm - 9:15pm
“Remember What Amalek Did to You!” Now Reconcile? Reconciling Identity Conflicts in Text and Society

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Next month, Jews around the world will mark the holiday of Purim and remember what Amalek did to us and the subsequent eternal commandment to annihilate Amalekites. This conflict represents a significant case study of an intractable identity conflict. This session will explore how through the integration of in-depth text study and contemporary reconciliation theory, we can consider how this ancient identity conflict, and similar such conflicts facing the Jewish world today, can be reconciled.
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Daniel Roth

Daniel Roth is director of the Pardes Center for Judaism and Conflict Resolution, where he also teaches courses that integrate text study with conflict resolution. He holds a PhD from Bar Ilan University's Program for Conflict Resolution, where he is on the faculty, writing about... Read More →

Saturday February 15, 2014 8:15pm - 9:15pm EST
Waterside
  Identity & Global Culture   Text & Thought

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