As part of a pair of programs featuring open dialogue about issues related to the Middle East, Radcliffe Dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin sat down with Noah Feldman to discuss his new book, To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2024).
Released on March 6, 2025.
Episode Transcript (https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/news-and-ideas/episode-403-conversation-with-noah-feldman#transcript)
Guests
Tomiko Brown-Nagin is the dean of Harvard Radcliffe Institute, the Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School, and a professor of history in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
Noah Feldman is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law and founding director of the Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law at Harvard Law School.
David Stern is the Harry Starr Professor of Classical and Modern Jewish and Hebrew Literature and a professor of comparative literature at Harvard University. He was the 2011–2012 Beatrice Shepherd Blane Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute.
Related Content
Noah Feldman’s Institutional Biography (https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/noah-r-feldman/)
Tomiko Brown-Nagin’s Institutional Biography (https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/tomiko-brown-nagin-dean)
Episode 402: Conversation with Aslı Ü. Bâli (https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/news-and-ideas/episode-402-conversation-with-asli-u-bali)
To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374298340/tobeajewtoday/)
Report of Harvard University’s Open Inquiry and Constructive Dialogue Working Group (https://provost.harvard.edu/sites/hwpi.harvard.edu/files/provost/files/open_inquiry_constructive_dialogue_report_october_2024.pdf)
David Stern’s Institutional Biography (https://cjs.fas.harvard.edu/people/faculty-leadership/david-stern/)
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