Sep 27, 2017 By: yunews
Dr. Michelle Levine, associate professor of Bible at , recently published an article, titled, 鈥�Havdalah鈥� Emulating God in Mind and Deed: Israel鈥檚 Divine Mission and the Quest for Salvation,鈥� in Havdalah, a publication by Mesorah Matrix, New Paradigm Matrix Publishing (eds. David Birnbaum, Martin S. Cohen, and Saul J. Berman), pp. 221鈥�250.
In August, Dr. Levine participated in the international conference, the Seventeenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, where she presented a paper, titled, 鈥淭he Literary and Thematic Unity of Balaam鈥檚 Prophecies in Ramban鈥檚 Biblical Commentary.鈥�
Over the summer, she also delivered a lecture series on the haftarot from the Book of Isaiah for the Three Weeks, at the Young Israel of Forest Hills, NY, and she gave a shiur in Hebrew in Efrat, Israel, on the topic of 鈥淭he Light of Redemption in the Blessings before Shema.鈥�