"Levinas: Four Readings," Beit Avichai, Jerusalem, December, 2, 9, 16, 23, 2008.

Emmanuel Levinas—one of the leading philosophers of the twentieth century—paved a unique, highly impressive road that drew on the major texts of western philosophy as well as the treasures of Jewish tradition. The series will trace Levinas’s thinking as reflected in four different aspects of his philosophy. Series organizer and moderator: Dr Joëlle Hansel, chair of the Raissa and Emmanuel Levinas Center, Jerusalem IN HEBREW Admission: NIS 30 per session; students: NIS 20; NIS 100 for the series Tuesday, December 2, at 8PM : For the Sake of a Just Society: Responsability for the Other Yair Tsaban, former Knesset member and government minister Prof. Shalom Rosenberg, Department of Jewish Thought, Hebrew University The session will include the screening of an interview that Levinas gave in 1985. Tuesday, December 9, at 8PM: To the Jewish Bookshelf Muki Tzur, scholar of rural settlement and a member of Kibbutz Ein Gev Dr. Shmuel Wygoda, head of the Department of Jewish Philosophy, Yaacov Herzog College, and a research fellow at the Van Leer Institute The session will include the screening of a 1986 film in which Levinas explains his statement "We thank You for our thanking You." Tuesday, December 16: The State of Israel and the Religion of Israel Dr. Zvia Walden, head of the Institute for Initiatives, Language, and Computers at Beit Berl Academic College Rabbi David Bigman, head of Yeshivat Maale Gilboa The session will include the screening of a 1976 film in which Levinas discusses his book /Difficult Freedom: Essays on Judaism/. Tuesday, December 23 (second night of Hannukah) 8PM: Between Light and Darkness: Particularistic Universalism in Levinas' Thought Salomon Malka, author, journalist, and Emmanuel Levinas’s biographer Ada Paldor reading excerpts from "The Light and the Dark," Levinas’s essay on Hanukkah. Joelle Hansel, Raissa and Emmanuel Levinas Center All events will take place at King George Street, 44, Jerusalem, Israel.