Here are some of the topics that are typically explored during the fellowship term:
- What is leadership anyway?
- Human happiness and pleasure
- Finding the leader in you
- Love and marriage and relationships
- Shabbat and holidays
- Women and Social Activism
- Is there a God and what difference does it make?
- Understanding various forms of activism
- The Arab Israeli conflict
- Skill development in leadership training
- Understanding the problems facing the Jewish people today
- Wonders of Jewish History
- Why do good things happen to bad people?
- Opportunities to make a difference on campus and beyond
- A Theory of Making Ethical Decisions in Medicine (Abortion, Euthenasia, Brain Stem Research): When do we go to a doctor and when do we go to a rabbi? How do we decide from whom to seek advice?
- Terms for Détente: What can science teach us and what can it not?
- The Mind vs. Brain Debate: A Case Study of Science and Philosophical Insights.
- A Historical Look at Dostoyevsky’s Famous Question: “Can civilized men believe? Can Unbelieving men be civilized?
- Let There be Light: Modern Scientific Discoveries Reveal the Biblical Metaphor.