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A special issue on Jewish Analytic Theology, edited by Aaron Segal and Sem Lebens, has been published in the latest issue of the Journal of Analytic Theology.  The issue can be found here.
The Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame is offering a two-year postdoctoral fellowship that will begin on July 1, 2023. Candidates must have a Ph.D. in hand by July 1, 2023 (degree must be awarded no earlier...
Talmudic Destiny
Call for Abstracts: The APJ plans to sponsor a session on the theme “Emotions and Jewish Philosophy” at the APA Central Division in Denver, CO, February 22-25, 2023. We invite abstracts of 750-1,000 words on any topic related to emotions and Jewish...
Congratulations to our steering committee members Shlomit Wygoda Cohen (Van Leer Institute) and Noam Oren (Hebrew University) for their recent publications on Jewish themes in Religious Studies. Here are the links for Shlomit’s paper “Why does God Command?,” and Noam’s...
Jewish Identity
The APJ is pleased to announce that several online symposia will be held in the upcoming months. Specific details will be sent in the following weeks.
Call for applications for a post-doc in Jewish analytic theology at York University. For details, see here.
Two new positions at the University of Birmingham in the UK: Senior lecturer in Philosophy of Religion; and Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Jewish Philosophy of Religion.
The Association for the Philosophy of Judaism is pleased to announce the publication of Jewish Philosophy in an Analytic Age, edited by Sam Lebens, Dani Rabinowitz, and Aaron Segal (Oxford University Press, August 2019). Description: Since the classical period, Jewish...
Essay Prize 2018-2019 This year, the Association for the Philosophy of Judaism is running a special essay prize, on the theme of the Meaning of Life. The analytic tradition of philosophy has dedicated surprisingly little attention to the ultimate question...
Jewish Philosophical Theology Young Scholars Summer Workshop The Herzl Institute, Jerusalem June 12-22, 2017 Project Directors: Yoram Hazony and Joshua Weinstein The Jewish Philosophical Theology project invites applications from graduate students and recent PhDs for a Young Scholars Bible and...
Call for abstracts: ENGAGING LEON ROTH A conference hosted by the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto and sponsored by the Leon Roth Foundation. Conference dates: May 15th-17th 2017 INVITED SPEAKERS: Leora Batnitzky (Princeton) –...
Analytic Philosophy
The Open University of Israel is looking for a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow to work on a project funded by the Israel Science Foundation, “Analyzing Levinas: Second-Person Normativity and the Metaphysics of Mind”. The project is headed by Dr. Michael Fagenblat...
The Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University
The Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University invites applications for the Tikvah Postdoctoral Fellowship. One fellow will be appointed for the 2015-2016 academic year, upon the approval of Yeshiva’s provost, the director of...
Pickering & Chatto
Alan Mittleman has been invited to edit a new series on Jewish Philosophy for the British publisher, Pickering and Chatto. He is looking for manuscripts with constructive philosophical content, although historically oriented work might also be acceptable. Both single author...
Jews Quarter
The first APJ Newsletter
November 3, 2024
The APJ is holding a symposium on The People, the Torah, the God: A Neo-Traditional Jewish Theology (Academic Studies Press, 2023) by Jerome Gellman on November 3-8, 2024. The symposium is being held on this page. For the first three...
Upcoming
January 8, 2025
7:00 pm
The APJ is delighted to announce that our annual group session for 2025 will be held at the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association in New York City at the Sheraton Times Square on Wednesday, January 8, from 7:00...