A panel discussion with Professors Asher Biemann (UVA), Willis Jenkins (UVA), Hava Samuelson (Arizona State) and Yuval Jobani (Tel Aviv U.)

Is there a Jewish religious tradition of environmentalism? How does the field of Jewish Studies intersect with the environmental turn in the humanities? A panel discussion of these and other questions about Jewish environmental thought featuring UVA Professor Asher Biemann, UVA Professor and Religious Studies Chair Willis Jenkins, Professor Hava Samuelson, Director of Jewish Studies and Irving and Miriam Lowe Professor of Modern Judaism and Professor of History at Arizona State University, and Professor Yuval Jobani, Assistant Professor in Jewish Philosophy and Education and head of the Interdisciplinary Studies Section in the Department of Hebrew Culture Studies, at Tel Aviv University.