Hevrutah: Zer­heilen– Healing to Peaces. Homeland/Diaspora

Panelists

• Akiva Weingarten is a New York-born, liberal Chassidic rabbi. He is active in the Jewish communities of Dresden and Basel, Switzerland.
• Sonia Simmenauer grew up in France. In 1989, she founded Impressariat Simmenauer, which is now one of the world’s most important agencies representing chamber music ensembles. In addition, as a lecturer, author, and speaker, she engages with foundational questions of the cultural world in Germany and Europe.
• Elad Lapidot, born in Jerusalem in 1976, is a professor at the Faculty of Languages, Cultures, and Societies at the University of Lille. He also teaches at the University of Bern, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, and Freie Universität Berlin. He researches political epistemology in contemporary philosophy and the Talmudic intellectual tradition. His most recent book, Anti-Anti-Semitismus: Eine philosophische Kritik (Anti-Antisemitism: A Philosophical Critique), was published this year.
• Aviva Ronnefeld is a visual artist and painter. Born in 1957 in Salzburg, Austria, she moved to Italy in 1975, where she studied political science until 1984. Later she lived in Paris and Vienna. Today she lives and works in the Kreuzberg neighborhood of Berlin.
• Daniel Schönpflug is a professor of contemporary history at the Freie Universität Berlin and the academic coordinator at the Wissenschaftskollegs zu Berlin (Berlin Institute for Advanced Study).