Elias Sacks, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Director of Graduate Studies for the Program in Jewish Studies, recently published two articles on Moses Mendelssohn, a leading Enlightenment philosopher generally seen as the founder of modern Jewish theology. The first article — "Anarchy and Law: Mendelssohn on Philosophy and Judaism" — appears in a new collection of essays entitled Moses Mendelssohn: Enlightenment, Religion, Politics, Nationalism (University Press of Maryland, 2016), and explores Mendelssohn’s views on the relationship between Judaism, philosophy, and science. The second article — "Civic Freedom out of the Sources of Judaism: Mendelssohn, Maimonides, and Law’s Promise” — appears in the most recent issue of the Journal of Jewish Ethics, and explores Mendelssohn’s engagement with medieval Judaism and relevance for contemporary democratic thought. In February 2016, Professor Sacks also gave a talk at Indiana University Bloomington entitled "Hebrew Philosophy Between East and West: Mendelssohn, Krochmal, and Jewish Modernity,” and in January 2016, he served as the co-chair of the annual meeting of the Society of Jewish Ethics, held concurrently with the annual meetings of the Society of Christian Ethics and the Society for the Study of Muslim Ethics.