The Center for the
Study of Conversion and Inter-Religious Encounters

Nadia Zeldes: "The Samma Family of Trapani (Sicily): Tracing a Case of Micro-History"

Nadia Zeldes & David Ben Zazon: "Pugliesi, Sephardim, and Portuguese – Jewish Exiles in Ottoman Valona (1492-1550)"

David Borabeck: "Galilee Torah sh-Be‘al Peh: Yechiel Michel Pines’ observant orientalism between Meron and Bnei-Yehuda"

Elad Ben David: "Between Religion and Crisis: Yasir Qadhi’s Da‘wa as Islamic Practical Theology in Post-October 7 America"

Maya Shabbat: "On The Margins: A Biography of Simon Bernfeld"

Roni Tzoreff: "Missing Objects, Missing Subjects: The Colonization of Jewish Ethnography in the Israel Museum"

Elazar Ben-Lulu: "Who Moved My Challah? Evolving Practices and Innovations in Traditional Jewish Bread

Elazar Ben-Lulu: "Ethnographic Dilemmas and Reflexive Thoughts of a Contemplative Jewish Anthropologist"

Elad Ben David: "Potential for Interfaith Dialogue in America in the Aftermath of October 7? The Discourse of American Muslim Imams as a Case Study"

Elazar Ben-Lulu: Israeli Prayers of Resistance and Resilience: The Politics of Faith After October 7th

David Borabeck: Mount Zion and Maqam Sayyidna ʿAli: The Two-Fold Formation of Religion in the Sovereign State and the Limits of Jewish Sovereignty

David Sabato: Yavneh and its Sages: The Birth of Rabbinic Halacha

Netta Schramm: Don't Trouble God with Condolences: On Leibowitz's Silence Regarding the Holocaust

Daniella Talmon-Heller Courts and Qurʾāns: ‘ʿUthmānī’ Codices from the Caliph’s Residence in Medina to Topkapı Palace in Istanbul