Elias Sacks, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Director of Graduate Studies for the Program in Jewish Studies, recently spoke at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion in Atlanta and at a conference听on 鈥�" at Creighton University.听In December 2015, he spoke at a workshop at Boston University entitled听"Thinking With Rabbinic Texts,鈥� which is part of a听broader initiative focused on听establishing a network of specialists in Talmud and rabbinic literature on the one hand, and scholars of Jewish thought on the other, interested in collaborative projects in pedagogy and research. 听
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