Ashkenazi or Sephardi?

Introduction

This episode is part Pardes’s Community Education Fall Lecture Series: Complex Identities in Israeli Society. This episode featured Rabbi Dr. Levi Cooper – Ashkenazi or Sephardi? The Battle over prayer rites and identity in the State of Israel.

December 4, Rabbi Dr. Sam Lebens – Birth of the Person; Embrace of a People – Click here to listen.
December 11, Jessica Steinberg – The Arab-Israeli in Israeli Film and TV
December 17, Rabbi Dr. Levi Cooper – Ashkenazi or Sephardi?
December 31, Shmuel Rosner – How Israelis Reinvent Judaism

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Credits:
Rabbi Dr. Levi Cooper – Pardes Faculty and Lecturing Host
Adam Titcher – Executive Producer

Levi Cooper

Dr. Levi Cooper is Senior Faculty at Pardes, teaching Jewish Law and Hasidut. He holds an LL.B., LL.M. and Ph.D from Bar-Ilan University, where he currently teaches in their Faculty of Law. Levi has been awarded multiple post-doctoral research grants, held academic visitor and educational advisory roles in Europe and Asia, and written extensively for academic publications.

Known as the Maggid of Melbourne, Levi hails from Australia. He currently lives in Zur Hadassa, where he has served as rabbi since 2005, co-founded the Lavi Primary School, and spearheaded other communal initiatives.