Rabbi Professor Marc Saperstein Sermons and Papers
SERMONS
2011
The Art of Forgiving : Cambridge Kol Nidre 2011
The Unwilling Nazirite: Cambridge Naso 2011
"You Shall Be Holy" : Cornell University, Kedoshim 2011
The Song at the Sea: Cambridge 7th Day Pesach 2011
Naaman's Discovery of God: JCM Wuppertal, Tazria 2011
New Perspectives: Cambridge Zakhor 2011
Beaten for the Light: Berkeley, California Tetsaveh 2011
The Heart of the Stranger: Cambridge Mishpatim 201
2010
Sacred Boundaries: Cambridge Va-Yetze 2010
Moses as Model: Cambridge Yom Kippur 2010
My Least Favourite Biblical Verse: Cambridge Mattot 2010
To Bless and to Curse: Cambridge Balak 2010
The Memory of Amalek: Cambridge Zakhor 2010
Quoting "Unkosher" Sources: Cambridge Yitro 2010
2009
Jacob and Us: Bristol and West Progressive Va-Yetsei 2009
5769: What Went Wrong? Can We Do Better?: Cambridge YK 2009
Abraham: The First Zonist?: Birmingham Progressive Lekh Lekha 2009
Utopian Legislation: Cambridge Re'eh 2009
Attacking our Leaders: New North London Hukkat 2009
Israel's Original Sin: Cambridge Ki Tissa 2009
On Servitude and Emancipation: Cambridge Mishpatim 2009
2008
Jacob's Dreams and Ours: Cambridge Va-Yetsei 2008
Standing Before God: Music and the Religious Life, Cambridge Kol Nidre 2008
The Widow Oppressed by the Torah: Cambridge Korah 2008
Lepers at the Gate: Cambridge Metzora 2008
"It Ain't Necessarily So": Cambridge Bo 2008
2007
"For Thou Art With Us": Cambridge Va-Yeshev 2007
Crossroads in Life: Edgware Yom Kippur 2007
The Sounds of Silence: Cambridge Rosh Hashanah 2007
The Six-Day War, Then and Now: Birmingham 9 June 2007
A Nation of Prophets?: Cambridge Be-Ha'alotekha 2007
Following a Majority: Cambridge Mishpatim 2007
Two Names for God: Alyth Gardens Va-Era 2007
2006
Burial Sites and Holiness: LJS Hayyei Sarah 2006
Jews at the Beginning of World War 1: Cambridge 11 November 2006
On Sharing a Common Ancestor: SWESRS Lekh Lekha 2006
On Warnings of Punishment: West London Ki Tavo 2006
Not By Bread Alone: (Lebanon): Cambridge Eqev 2006
ADDRESSES
2011
Rabbis as Preachers: 1800-1965: Regensburg Conference
John Rayner as Preacher: The Sermon in Response to Historical Events
Rabbinic Leadership in Time of Crisis: Rabbi Isaac Aboab II (1433-1493) : Bayfield Festschrift
HUC-JIR Graduation Address: Cincinnati 2011
Christian Doctrine and the Holocaust: The Ambiguities of Influence : Birmingham CCJ 2011
2010
Abraham Geiger as Historian of Medieval Judaism: Geiger College 2010
Theodor Hezl in Retrospect, 150th Anniversary of his Birth: NPLS 2010
Positions of Jewish Leadership: J-C-M 2010
Progressive Judaism at 200 Years: A Retrospective: ER Biennial, Paris 2010
Regeneration After Disaster: CCJ 27 January 2010
2009
Confronting Antisemitism and Islamophobia: Joseph Foundation 2009
2008
Bumps, Forks and Detours on the Road to God's Kingdom: ICCJ 2008
Rabbi Israel Mattuck: Sermons on the 'Great War': South London Progressive John Rich Lecture 2008
Jewish Preaching on Leviticus: Bible Week 2008
Is The Sermon On Its Death-Bed?: Graduates Day address 2008
Anglo-Jewish Preaching During World War II: JHSE London 2008
Anglo-Jewish Preaching During the Great War: Oxford 2008
2007
Attitudes Toward Christianity in Modern Jewish Preaching: Southampton University 2007
Literature in Modern Jewish Preaching: Edinburgh 2007
Traditional Jewish Preaching on Social Justice: New London Louis Jacobs Memorial Lecture 2007
"Ploughshares Into Swords": Marshalling the Jewish Heritage in Times of War 2007
2006
Preparing Rabbis for the Future: 50th Anniversary Conference Address
