The Annual Caroline and Joseph S. Gruss Lecture
Spring 2004: Moshe Halbertal
The Spring 2004 Annual Caroline and Joseph S. Gruss Lecture was presented by Moshe Halbertal, Gruss Professor of Talmudic Civil Law; Professor of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, Hebrew University; and Fellow, Shalom Hartman Institute. The Lecture was entitled, "Confession, Self-Incrimination, and Repentance in Jewish Law". Following the Lecture, there was a short cocktail reception.
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Moshe Halbertal Biographical Information
Moshe Halbertal is Professor of Jewish Thought and Philosophy at the Hebrew University and at NYU Law School. He is also a Fellow at the Shalom Hartmann Institute. He received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University in 1989. He was Fellow at the Society of Fellows at Harvard University, and has been a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School, University of Pennsylvania Law School, and a Visiting Professor at NYU Law School until he was appointed to the faculty. He is an author of many books, including Idolatry,People of the Book: Cannon, Meaning, and Authority. He is also the author of Interpretative Revolutions in the Making, Between Torah and Wisdom: Rabbi Menachem he-Meiri and the Maimonidean Halakhists and Concealment and Revelation: The Secret and Its Boundaries in Medieval Jewish Tradition.
Professor Halbertal is also the recipient of the Bruno Award of the Rothschild Foundation.
