Noah Feldman: To Be a Jew Today

Room: Society, Sciences & Technology, 2nd Floor

In his timely reckoning with how Jews can and should make sense of their tradition and each other, Noah Feldman asks a wide array of questions: What does it mean to be a Jew? At a time of worldwide crisis, venerable answers to this question have become unsettled. In his latest book, To Be a Jew Today, the legal scholar and columnist draws on a lifelong engagement with his religion to offer a wide-ranging interpretation of Judaism in its current varieties. How do Jews today understand their relationship to God, to Israel, and to each other—and live their lives accordingly?

Noah Feldman is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard University, where he is also founding director of the Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law. A leading public intellectual, he is a contributing writer for Bloomberg View and the author of numerous books, including The Broken Constitution, Divided by God, and The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State.