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April 2025

Jews and Health: Bodies, Perceptions, Practices
April 28 - 29, 2025
Jews and Health: Bodies, Perceptions, Practices
Jewish Medical and Theological Conceptions of the Heart and Brain in the Long Eighteenth Century
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Jewish Medical and Theological Conceptions of the Heart and Brain in the Long Eighteenth Century
Featuring: Ahuvia Goren, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
"I am slow of speech and of tongue": Exploring Biblical Narratives through the Lens of Neuroscience and Disability Studies
Monday, April 7, 2025
"I am slow of speech and of tongue": Exploring Biblical Narratives through the Lens of Neuroscience and Disability Studies
Featuring: Naomi Ferziger
Seder Nashim: the Role of Sections on Women’s Conditions in Shaping the Medieval Hebrew Corpus of Gynecology
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Seder Nashim: the Role of Sections on Women’s Conditions in Shaping the Medieval Hebrew Corpus of Gynecology
Featuring: Carmen Caballero Navas, University of Granada

March 2025

The Scales of Suffering: Neo-Lachrymosity and the Writing of Jewish History
Monday, March 31, 2025
The Scales of Suffering: Neo-Lachrymosity and the Writing of Jewish History
Celebrating the Publication of Longing and Belonging: Jews in the Modern Islamic World (Penn Press, 2025)
Thursday, March 27, 2025
Celebrating the Publication of Longing and Belonging: Jews in the Modern Islamic World (Penn Press, 2025)
Featuring: Nancy E. Berg, Washington University St. Louis; Dina Danon, SUNY, Binghamton
Faith, Trust, and Records of Medical Advice in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Faith, Trust, and Records of Medical Advice in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
Featuring: Naama Cohen-Hanegbi
Magen David Adom: The Integration of Zionism into International Humanitarian Law
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Magen David Adom: The Integration of Zionism into International Humanitarian Law
Featuring: Y. Michael Barilan, Tel Aviv University
Jewish Bioethics in Theory and Practice
March 20, 2025 - April 3, 2025
Jewish Bioethics in Theory and Practice
Featuring: Molly Sinderbrand, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Medicine for the Jewish Nation: Pathologizing Jewish Orthodoxy in Maskilic Medical Discourse in the Late Eighteenth Century
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Medicine for the Jewish Nation: Pathologizing Jewish Orthodoxy in Maskilic Medical Discourse in the Late Eighteenth Century
Featuring: Christoph Schulte, University of Potsdam
The Future of Antisemitism Research
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
The Future of Antisemitism Research
Featuring: Anna Shternshis, University of Toronto; Steven Weitzman, University of Pennsylvania; Avinoam Patt , New York University ; Jeffrey Veidlinger, University of Michigan
Women’s Bodies and Public Health in Poland before and after the Holocaust
Thursday, March 6, 2025
Women’s Bodies and Public Health in Poland before and after the Holocaust
Featuring: Natalia Aleksiun, University of Florida

February 2025

A Jewish Tour of the Mütter Museum
Thursday, February 27, 2025
A Jewish Tour of the Mütter Museum
Featuring: Edward Reichman, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Yeshiva University
Elu v’Elu: Gendered Fictions of Illness by S.Y. Agnon and Devorah Baron
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
Elu v’Elu: Gendered Fictions of Illness by S.Y. Agnon and Devorah Baron
Featuring: Wendy Zierler, Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion
Resilience during War in Israel
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Resilience during War in Israel
Featuring: Bruria Adini, Tel Aviv University