Rabbi Morris takes participants on a live tour of the UK’s oldest synagogue, London’s Bevis Marks Synagogue built in 1701. Enjoy its beautiful interior and learn its remarkable history as your are entertained with stories about its famous congregants including Sir Moses Montefiore and Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. £5 suggested donation. Private tours can be […]
Join Rabbi Morris in conversation with Matthias Lehmann. He will speak on his book “Emissaries from the Holy Land: How Sephardic Rabbis Created a Unified Mediterranean Jewish Community” Matthias B. Lehmann is the Teller Family Chair in Jewish History at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Ladino Rabbinic Literature and Ottoman […]
Join Rabbi Morris in conversation with David Sclar: "(Re)Forming Identity: Books and Portuguese Rabbinicization in Early Modern Amsterdam David Sclar is a Research Fellow with the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University. He has published widely on Jewish religious life in early modern Italy and the Dutch Republic, and as held fellowships at Princeton […]
Join Rabbi Morris for a weekly shiur on Sephardi Judaism for Modern Times: Weekly class studying Miriam Mendes Belisario's "Sabbath Evenings at Home." The text is available online for free at https:// archive.org/details/sabbatheveningsa00beli. Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/94315733888 Password: 389173
Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society explores the political and social history of the Jews of Suriname, a Dutch colony on the South American mainland just north of Brazil. Suriname was home to the most privileged Jewish community in the Americas where Jews, most of Iberian origin, enjoyed religious liberty, were judged by their own tribunal, […]
Rabbi Shalom Morris in conversation with Ronnie Perelis -Yeshiva University talk about the Sephardic Atlantic: networks of family and faith Prof. Perelis will explore the lines connecting Conversos and Western Sephardim in the early modern atlantic world. In particular we will look at how families could comprise devout Catholics, passionate crypto-Jews and committed Sephardim and […]
Join Rabbi Morris for a Pre-Shabbat Connect at 4.30pm. https://zoom.us/j/930770579. Password: 709334
Join Rabbi Morris for a weekly shiur on Sephardi Judaism for Modern Times: Weekly class studying Miriam Mendes Belisario's "Sabbath Evenings at Home." Conversation #9: The Revelation and Permanence of the Law The text is available online for free at https:// archive.org/details/sabbatheveningsa00beli. Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/94315733888 Password: 389173
Rabbi Morris in conversation with Adam Sutcliffe from Kings College London, speaking about his book: What Are Jews For? History, Peoplehood and Purpose. A wide-ranging look at the history of Western thinking since the seventeenth century on the purpose of the Jewish people in the past, present, and future Adam Sutcliffe is professor of European […]
Join Rabbi Morris for a special pre Tish'a Be’Ab Conversation with Professor Martin Goodman Oxford University, talking about his book Rome & Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations. Professor Goodman studies the political, social and religious history of the Jews in the Roman Empire, in particular the relationship of the Jews to the wider Roman […]
