Session 2 : The Jewish modern statehood challenge.

Since its establishment the Jewish state had a central position in regards to Jewish life. Inside the state, the relationship of state and religion stand in the center of a major socio-political divide. Outside of it, its existence as a worldly political actor raises many tensions with the religious and even messianic/moral expectations many have for the state of Israel. ‎

Yuval Katz-Wilfing

Yuval Katz is the CEO of the Austrian Committee for Christian-Jewish Co-operation and is regularly lecturing and writing about inter-religious dialogue from a Jewish perspective. He lives with his wife and three children in Vienna.

Academic interests: history of ideas, identity construction, development of the soul concept, conversion, Hebrew philology, Jewish history, rabbinics, interreligious phenomena, and interreligious dialogue.

Ph.D. (2020) in Jewish Studies
M.A. in Religious Studies (2013)
B.Sc. in Computer Science (2001)

James Moser

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Co-steward of the
trans-denominational Chavurah Vienna

BA in Judaic Studies from Dickinson College (Pennsylvania/USA). A recent graduate of the One-Year Program at Paideia: The European Institute for Jewish Studies in Stockholm, now pursuing an MA in Jewish Civilizations at the Hochschule für jüdische Studien in Heidelberg. He has worked in non-profit and higher education management before returning to graduate school.