Adjudicating the Spiritual World in Israeli Courts: Dilemmas of Equality of Justice with Erica Weiss moderated by Guy Priver

Erica Weiss is Visiting Professor in the Department of Judaic Studies at Brown University for 2025–26. An anthropologist of religion and ethics, her work traces how Jewish communities, navigate responsibility for others in contexts of conflict and diversity. She has conducted research on conscientious objection in Israel, Jewish–Muslim reconciliation, and the role of political theology in shaping Jewish-non-Jewish relations. Currently, she is Principal Investigator of the ERC project The Praxis of Coexistence, a multi-sited ethnographic study in six countries that investigates how everyday Jewish, Muslim, and other communities practice coexistence in ways that challenge nationalist, xenophobic, and ethnically exclusionary paradigms. Weiss brings ethnography to bear on debates often dominated by philosophy and political theory, offering alternative moral and political grammars for thinking about pluralism, responsibility, and Jewish life in diverse societies.