Tikvah Scholars 2011-2012

Yitzhak Ben David

Graduate of Yeshivat Har Etzion, and was ordained as a Rabbi by the Israeli Chief Rabbinate. He has taught Talmud and Jewish Thought at Midreshet Ein Hanatziv and atYeshivat Maale Gilboa, and has served as head of the Beit Midrash for Midreshet Ein Hanatziv alumnae. He holds a Master’s degree in Philosophy and Talmud from Hebrew University.

Research:

The Authority and Disobedience Model in Tractate Horayoth As Viewed Through the Prism of Modern Legal Doctrines

Hillel Ben Sasson

Ph.D. candidate in Department of Philosophy at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he also completed his Bachelors and Masters. His work focuses on encounters between scriptural traditions and Western philosophy, both in antiquity as well as in modern times.

Janet Bordelon

Ph.D. candidate and Jim Joseph Fellow at New York University in Education and Jewish studies. She graduated magna cum laude from Colby College with a B.A. with honors in History and Government. As a Frankel fellow, she completed her M.A. in Judaic studies from the University of Michigan in Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism. 

RESEARCH:

Rethinking the Multi-Cultural Paradigm for Teaching about Religion in Global History Textbooks

Clémence Boulouque (Scholar Emeritus)

A graduate from the Institute of Political Sciences in Paris, the ESSEC business school, Ms. Boulouque holds a BA in Art History from the Sorbonne as well as a DEA (one-year post MA French diploma) in Comparative Literature. She also received a Fulbright Scholarship to pursue her studies at Columbia University in the Master’s Program of International Affairs with a concentration on the Middle-East. 

RESEARCH:

(Mentored by Professor Elliot Wolfson)

Joshua M. Drapekin

J.D. student at NYU School of Law. He completed his undergraduate study in Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies and Hebrew at Emory University as a Woodruff Scholar. He worked as a research assistant and general intern for Dr. Kenneth W. Stein at the Institute for the Study of Modern Israel, where his research focused primarily on Jimmy Carter’s presidential and post-presidential activities relating to the Middle East. 

Adam Gaynor

Consultant with The Whelan Group, a New York-based firm providing planning and advisory services to non-profits and foundations.

RESEARCH:

Guadalupe González Diéguez

Ph.D. Candidate at the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies (New York University). She undertook undergraduate studies in Spain (Universidad Complutense) and France (Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint Denis), holding B.A.s in Philosophy and Hebrew Philology from Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She holds a DEA (post-graduate degree) in History of Philosophy from Universidad Complutense. 

RESEARCH:

Isaac ibn Latif (1210-1280) Between Philosophy and Kabbalah. Timeless and Timebound Wisdom

Ruth Kaniel Kara-Ivanov (Gruss Scholar-in-Residence)

Lecturer in the Department of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a Research Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute. She received her BA, MA, and PhD in Jewish Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

RESEARCH:

Myth, Ethics and Gender: The Zohar—between Antinomianism and a New Halacha

Lynn Kaye

Completing her PhD in Rabbinic Literature at NYU as a recipient of the Dean's Dissertation Fellowship. She was also awarded a Doctoral Scholarship by the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture.

RESEARCH:

Doing Time: Law and Temporality in the Babylonian Talmud

Yehezkel Margalit

Recently completed his Ph.D. in Law at Bar-Ilan University. He specializes in family, contract, Jewish law and bioethics.

RESEARCH:

National Health or Procreation Insurance? – Parenthood at Every Age, Every Price and Subsidized by the State?

Paul Nahme

Ph.D. candidate in the Centre for the Study of Religion and the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. Under the supervision of Professors David Novak and Robert Gibbs, he is completing his dissertation entitled, “The Theological Conditions of the Political: Legitimacy and Justification as Categories of Legal and Religious Reason,” focusing on the relationship between Christian, Jewish, and Islamic political theology and the modern liberal constitutional state.

RESEARCH:

Constitutional Eschatology: Mono-theism and Legal Pluralism

Ram Rivlin

Research Fellow at the Hebrew University’s Faculty of Law, where he wrote his Ph.D. dissertation as well as taught Family Law and Jurisprudence. Prior to his doctoral studies, he served for several years as a Legal Assistant (senior clerk) for Justice Ayala Procaccia, at the Israeli Supreme Court, having received a Bachelor Degree in Law and Philosophy, 2002, and LL.M., 2004, both from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, magna cum laude. He was admitted to the Israeli Bar on 2003.

RESEARCH:

Jewish Divorce in Dual Systems: Norms, Ritual and Bargaining Tools

Arie Rosen

J.S.D. candidate at New York University School of Law, concentrating on legal and political philosophy. He is writing his doctoral dissertation on the relationship between models of legal authority and the question of the concept of law, under the supervision of Professor Jeremy Waldron.

RESEARCH:

Aliza Segal

Holds a Ph.D. in Jewish Education from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her BA and MA (Bible) from Yeshiva University preceded years of work as a classroom teacher in the United States and Israel, with additional experience in adult education, curriculum writing, teacher training, and practitioner research (ATID, Jerusalem). 

RESEARCH:

Michelle Waldman Sarna

Recently completed her PhD. at Fordham University on Emerging Adulthood in Muslim and Jewish cohorts. She has presented her research and perspectives on the transition to adulthood at several conferences and forums, including YU’s Orthodox Forum and Jim Joseph Foundation’s Third Space Conference.

RESEARCH:

Moran Yahav

J.S.D. candidate at New York University School of Law, with research interests in legal and political philosophy as well as in the history and theory of international law. Her doctoral dissertation, supervised by Professor Liam Murphy, aims to develop an institutional theory of law in the province of general jurisprudence.

RESEARCH:

"An Institutional Theory of Law"