Lecture Topics
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JEWISH COMMUNITIES IN ASIA
“A Year with the Jews of Cochin” (PowerPoint)
“Identity Transformed: the Bene Israel Jews”
“‘Jewish Apartheid’ and a Jewish Gandhi”
“The Ancient Jewish Community of Kaifeng, China”
“The Curious Case of Sa’id Sarmad: An Eccentric Jewish-Yogi-Sufi Courtier of the Mughals”
“Three Judaizing Movements in India”
“Two Models of Jewish Continuity from India”
INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE
“A Tale of Two Exiles: Jews and Tibetans”
“A Tale of Two Exiles, the Dalai Lama and Me”
“Buddhism and American Judaism: Mutual Enrichment or a ‘Twain Crash?”
“Free Will (Bechirah) or Divine Play (Lila): Jewish and Hindu Creation Stories and their Meanings”
“Hindu-Jewish Dialogue in America”
“Jains, Jews, and a Handshake”
“The ‘Jewish Secret’ and the Dalai Lama”
SPIRITUALITY
“Contemporary Global Spirituality”
“‘Just the Facts, Ma’am’ – What Is Spiritual Biography?”
“Mystic Light, Mystic Darkness”
“Spirituality in the University”
“The ‘Feminine’ According to Jung’s Psychology and Buddhist Tantra”
“The Importance of Jewish Meditation”
INDO-JUDAIC STUDIES
“India and Israel in the Ancient World”