Lectures and Talks

(according to subjects)
The Habad – Lubavitch Movement


• The Politics of Resurrection, the Story of Lubavitch
• The Habad movement: resurrectionism, succession and continuity
• Habad vs Lubavitch: How the Lubavitch dynasty emerged as the sole surviving Habad sub-group .
• The Fransciscans of Judaism and the International Jewish Network
• The Pluses and Minuses of the Lubavitch Movement

Ultra Orthodoxy

• The Next Jewish revolution: Rehabilitation of Ultra – Orthodoxy in Israel.
• The Many Faces of Religious Jewry; insights into the pluralism within Ultra Orthodoxy

Israeli Politics

• Future of the Jewish State
• The Israeli Left Wing as a Heresy; false messianism and dogmatism
• Solutions to the Arab-Israeli Impasse
• Discussions on the Viability of a Second Jewish State
• A Sanhedrin and Monarchy for Israel!
• New Directions in Jewish Peoplehood
• The Role of a Sanhedrin in Modern Israeli Politics
• A Bi-cameral System in Israel; an Upper House as Sanhedrin
• Can there ever be another Kingdom of Judea?

Jewish Political Thought

• Mysticism vs Rationalism: Understanding Politics and Piety in Jewish Religious Thought
• Jewish Messianism and the Breaking of Law
• Political Messianism; The Re-Emergence of Jewish Political Thought
• Adventures into New Political Thought: The Sanhedrin and the House of Lords
• Sabbatean Messianism as Proto-Secularism: Examples in Modern Turkey and Zionism
• Renewing Semikhah in the 16th Century: its failure and the things that followed.
• The Bible as a socio-political manifesto
• An Introduction to Logistical Messianism and its Implementation.

Biblical Interpretations and Portraits of Biblical Figures:

• God, Abraham, Joseph and Moses
• Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezra the Scribe
• Moses vs Aaron
• The Book of Jonah
• Samson

Judaism and the Jewish Diaspora

• The future of the Jewish Diaspora
• Noahidism as Judaism outside of Israel
• The Jews of Ancient China
• Jews and Judaism in Modern China
• The Failure of the Jewish Reform Movement

Jewish – Christian Relations

• Christian Attitudes to Jews and the State of Israel.
• Arab Christian Views on Judaism and the State of Israel
• Proposal for a Jewish-Christian Alliance
• A Jewish Theology of Christianity

A Jewish Theology of Christianity

• The Gradual Return of Christianity to Judaism
• The Ascent of Judaisers in the Church
• Israel as Axis for the Next Reformation of Christianity
• The Jewish Roots of Christianity
• The Jewishness of the New Testament
• The Mistakes of the Early Church

General Philosophy

• The Rationalist Idea of God and the Unfortunate and Profound Necessity for Faith
• Spirituality as The Ultimate Group-Builder
• Academia: from religious scribes to modern monasteries
• Insights into Rational Religion
• A Theory of God and Rational Spirituality
• The Politics of Pilgrimages
• The Messiah Complex: How the Idea of the Messiah Colonised Human Thinking
• An Examination of Four Types of Messianism

Islam

• The Trouble with Islam and How to Save It from Itself.
• A New Theology for Islam
• How Israel Should Relate to Islam

Ethics

• Legal and Philosophic Deliberation on Organ Transplants
• End of Life Decisions: A Jewish Perspective

China

• Possibilities for a Judeo – Sino Intellectual Exchange
• A Philosopher’s Observations of China
• An Ethic for China
• Jews in Ancient China: Kaifeng and the Silk Road
• Jews in Modern China
• Jewish Studies in China