Click Here to Read: A Talmudist and a Psychoanalyst Walk into a Bar… Dr. Ruth Calderon will give the 2018 Jewish Thought and Psychoanalysis lecture was held on May 14th at Beth Zion-Beth Israel in Philadelphia.

Photo of Dr. Ruth Calderon by en:Yesh Atid political party. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

This year’s public Jewish Thought and Psychoanalysis lecture was a conversation between Dr. Ruth Calderon, a Talmud scholar from Israel, and Harvey Schwartz discussing the similarities and differences between rabbinic and a psychoanalytic understandings of the human condition.

The video of our introductory statements and our discussion of one of her talmudic tales is now available on the website JewishThoughtandPsychoanalysis.com