Dr. Miriam Feldmann-Kaye is Assistant Professor on the Faculty of the Department of Jewish Philosophy at Bar Ilan University, and visiting professor at Jewish Theological Seminary. She was a co-organizer of the Bar-Ilan University conference on Rabbi Sacks.

A winner of the Cambridge University Theological Studies Prize, she is Editor-in-Chief of the St Andrews University Encyclopaedia of Jewish Theology. Her first book "Jewish Theology for a Postmodern Age," was published by Liverpool University Press in association with the Littman Library of Jewish Civilization. Her second book, a co-edited volume on the philosophy of Rav Shagar: "Illuminated Fragments: The New Jewish Philosophy of Rav Shagar" was published in 2025. Feldmann-Kaye was listed in the "Top 70 British People Shaping the Modern State of Israel" by the UJIA and Jewish News, and appears on the "Aliya 100 List." Her articles can be viewed here.

Dr. Feldmann-Kaye will be teaching the following course related to Rabbi Sacks: Interfaith dialogue and Countering Religious Extremism: The Perspective of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

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Selected relevant publications:

Miriam Feldmann-Kaye, Jonathan Rynhold and Hanoch Ben-Pazi (editors), The Political and Religious Philosophy of Jonathan Sacks (edited volume), forthcoming 2027. 

Miriam Feldmann-Kaye, The “Failure of Success”: Rabbi Jonathan Sacks and Enlightenment Philosophy, Modern Judaism, Oxford University Press.

Miriam Feldmann-Kaye, In God's Name: Interreligious Hermeneutics in Rabbi Jonathan Sacks and the Controversy of Abrahamic Religions, in Hanoch Ben Pazi (ed) Life as a Dialogue: The Jubilee Book in Honour of Ephraim Meir, Idra Press, 2025, E156-180.

Miriam Feldmann-Kaye, Ethical Infinity and the Phenomenology of the Scroll: Levinasian Dimensions in the Philosophy of Rabbi Sacks, Tradition, 2025. 

Miriam Feldmann-Kaye, New Horizons of Revelation on the Axis of Twenty-First Century Jewish Theology, in Routledge Handbook for Judaism in the Twenty-First Century, Routledge, 2023, 345-35.

Miriam Feldmann-Kaye, Alterity, Alacrity, Excess: Soren Kierkegaard, Franz Rosenzweig, Jacques Levinas, Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Marion on the Biblical Character of Abraham, Religions, 2022.

Miriam Feldmann-Kaye, The Continental Philosophy of “Anatheism”:  A Study of Richard Kearney’s Critique of Post-Metaphysical Theology in the Burning Bush Narrative”, Journal of Religion and Theology, Brill, 2021, 125-152.

Miriam Feldmann-Kaye, Deconstructionist Philosophy and Multiple Truth Theory in the Tower of Babel, Tradition, 52:4, 37-43, 2020. 

Miriam Feldmann-Kaye, ‘Jewish Theology for a Postmodern Age’, Liverpool University Press and Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2019