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Rabbi Haim Rechnitzer (Show Contact Information)
Rabbi Dr. Rechnitzer is Assistant Professor of Modern Jewish Thought on the Cincinnati campus. He earned his doctorate from The Department of Jewish Thought at Hebrew University (2003), and his rabbinic ordination from HUC-JIR (2003). He also studied at Mandel School for Educational Leadership and at the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem. Prior to joining the faculty of the College-Institute, Rabbi Dr. Rechnitzer was on the faculty at Franklin and Marshall College, Department of Religious Studies and Jewish Thought.
Education
- Ordained, HUC-JIR (2003)
- Ph.D., Hebrew University (2003) Title: Leo Straus and the theological political predicament
- Mendel School for Educational Leadership, "Jerusalem Fellows" (1998)
Publications
- "Haim Guri and Rabbi David Buzaglo: A Theo-Political Meeting Place of Zionist Sabra Poetry and Jewish Liturgy," The Journal for the Study of Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewry 2, n. 1 (Summer 2008): 37-62.
http://sephardic.fiu.edu/journal/JSSMJinsidecover.htm
- "Redemptive Theology in the Thought of Yeshayahu Leibowitz," Israel Studies 13, n. 3 (Fall 2008): 137-159
- "Tell Me What Your Questions Are and I will Tell You Who You Are: Some Reflections on the 'Proposed Taxonomy for a Twenty-First-Century Theology of Reform Zionism' by S. M. Davids," CCAR Journal (Summer 2008). [forthcoming]
- "Toward a Trans-Liberal Romanticism: The Case of A. E. Simon," (Hebrew) in Modes of Educational Translation: Studies in Jewish Education Vol.13, ed. Jonathan Cohen & Eli Holzer (Jerusalem: Magnes Press). [forthcoming]
- "The Political Theology of Leo Strauss" in God Will Not Be Silence: Jewish Modernism and Political Theology (Haelohim Lo Yealem Dom - Moderna Yehudit Veteologya Politit), ed. Christoph Schmitt (Tel Aviv: HaKibutz Hameuchad). [forthcoming]
- "The Journey Towards the Birth of Modern Liberalism: Leo Strauss's Hobbes," in The Young Leo Strauss, ed. Eugene Sheppard & Pierre Bouretz (Chicago: University of Chicago Press). [forthcoming]
- "Maimonides' Messianism: Between Personal Salvation and Public Responsibility" in Gog U'Magog, ed. David A. Yoel, Moti Inbari, Yoram Mazor and Maya Leibowitz (Tel Aviv: Yediot Ha'Ahronot Press, 2002): 38-57
Lecture Titles
- Between Israeli Poetry and Jewish Theology
- Zionism and Political Theology
- The Redemptive Theology of contemporary Jewish Thinkers
- Judaism as Faith versus Judaism as Law
- Modes of Translation from Jewish Thought to Jewish Education
- The Transformation of Jewish Value-Concepts: From Classic Text to Modern Context
Research in Progress
- The State of Israel and Contemporary Reform Political Theology
- Religion and State - construction of a dialogue Between Halakhic Responsa and Contemporary Liberal Political Philosophy
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