Shabbat on the Hill – 14 February – Shabbat on the Hill – Dr Lea Taragin Zeller – Mishpatim:  Some Anthropological Reflections on Rules and Ethics

Please join us on Shabbat, 14 February, to hear from our Guest Speaker, Dr Lea Taragin Zeller – more information below.  Please then stay for a traditional Shabbat on the Hill Cholent and Kugel Kiddush.

Background:
Lea Taragin-Zeller is Assistant Professor in the Federmann School of Public Policy and Program in Cultural Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is also an affiliated researcher at the Reproductive Sociology Research Group (ReproSoc) at the University of Cambridge.

Over the years, she has developed a comparative and interdisciplinary research method to examine state-minority politics on different scalar levels. Her book “The State of Desire: Religion and Reproductive Politics in the Promised Land” (NYU Press, 2023) ethnographically analyzes the ways Orthodox Jews reorient conflicting social, religious, and national desires amidst shifting forms in Israel’s reproductive governance. More recently, she has been studying Jewish-Muslim interfaith initiatives to analyse how female migrants and minorities come together vis-à-vis political and social transformations in a growing Islamaphobic and antisemitic Britain.