“The Book of Ruth and the Question of Migration” |
Ilana Pardes (author of Ruth: A Migrant's Tale, Yale 2022) |
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Lunch and Learn |
Dr. Dima Strakovsky |
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"Jewish Methods of Interpreting the Bible" Workshop |
Dr. Sheila Jelen |
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“The Jewish Study Bible: What Makes it Jewish?” |
Adele Berlin (co-editor of The Jewish Study Bible, Oxford 2014) |
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Lunch and Learn |
Dr. Jan Fernheimer |
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“Leaving the Hasidic Community: Reality Versus Popular Culture" |
Zalmen S. Newfield (City University of New York) |
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“Too Jewish? Imagining the Ultra-Orthodox and America" |
Nora Rubel (University of Rochester) |
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“Making Movies About Orthodox Jews" |
Rama Burshtein (Film Director) |
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"Headscarves and Hashtags: Orthodox Jewish Women Represent Themselves" |
Karen Skinazi |
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Praying with Lior (2008): Director Q&A |
Ilana Trachtman |
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Translating from Yiddish to English: Reclaiming Women's Voices |
Anita Norich & Jessica Kirzane |
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Beyond the Mother Tongue: Learning Yiddish in America |
Jeffery Shandler |
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Feeling Jewish: Nostalgia and American Jewish Religion |
Rachel B. Gross |
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‘Living on a Sort of Island’: Jewish Refugee Farmers in the American South |
Andrew Sperling |
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Claudia Roden "Gefilte Fish and Couscous" |
Claudia Roden |
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Katherine Bullock “Women and Islam” |
Katherine Bullock |
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Mina Yazdani “Religious Diversity in Iran” |
Mina Yazdani |
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“The Arab World and American Democracy” |
Dr. Jacob Berman |
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“The Arab Spring: The Youth Revolts of the Arab World Aren't Over |
Juan Cole |
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Yousif Sheronik “Percussion of the Middle East” |
Yousif Sheronik |
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Tanya Habjouqa, Palestinian Photography |
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Susannah Heschel: "Ohavay Zion" |
Susannah Heschel |
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"Religion, Identity and Competing Visions of Islam in Post-Soviet Central Asia" |
Devin Deweese |
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"The Israelite Samaritan Today: Past, Present and Looking to the Future." |
Benyamim (Benny) Tsedaka |
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"My Father’s Paradise: How a Jewish Kid from Los Angeles Traveled to Wartime Iraq in Search of Roots, Identity and His Father's Improbable Life Story " |
Ariel Sabar |
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