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Michael L. Chernick
Dr. Chernick is Deutsch Professor of Jewish Jurisprudence and Social Justice at HUC-JIR/New York. He was educated at Yeshiva College and Bernard Revel Graduate School and was ordained at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. He specializes in Talmudic and halachic literature.
Education
- Ordained, Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University (1968)
- Ph.D., Bernard Revel Graduate School
Lecture Titles
- The Talmudic Tradition and the Contemporary World
- "Revealing a Hidden Light": A Literary Approach to the Talmudic Short Story
- Maimonides's Philosophy of Jewish Law
- Toward an Authentic Jewish Spirituality
- "You Shall be as Gods": Traditional Judaism Faces the Brave New World
- "Must I Love my Fellow Jews?": Halakhic Judaism and Jewish Religious Pluralism
Recent Books
- Essential Papers on the Talmud (ed.) New York University Press, 1995 (order online
from amazon.com)
- The Writing was the Writing of God. HUC Press (forthcoming)
Articles
- "Maire de France in the Synagogue" in Examplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. (2006)
- "Turn it and turn it again": Culture and Talmud Interpretation, in Turn It Again, ed. Sheila Delany
(Pegasus Press, 2005).
- "Polysemous Sugyot as a Source of Rishonic Debates about Normative Halakhah," Studies in Mediaeval Halakhah in Honor of Stephen M. Passamaneck, Jewish Law Association Studies, XVII, Jewish Law Association, 2007.
In the News
- Contributor to an article on Get and 'Agunot, by Anne Givens, Newsday, 2005.
Papers Delivered
- "The Status of Women in the Halakhic and Aggadic Thought of Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Ishmael," Conference Celibrating the Centennary of Abraham Joshua Heschel, Bet Morashah, Jerusalem, December 2007.
- "Brisk, Jacob Neusner, and the Stam: Significant Methodologies for Meaningful Talmud Teaching and Study," Conference on Teaching Rabbinic Literature, Mandell Center for Studies in Jewish Education, Brandeis University, January 2008.
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