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February 2021

'I See Your Eagles in the Beaks of Ravens': Reading Judah Halevi in the Harlem Renaissance
Monday, February 8, 2021
'I See Your Eagles in the Beaks of Ravens': Reading Judah Halevi in the Harlem Renaissance
Featuring: S. J. Pearce, New York University
Zakhor: Alex Haley’s Roots, Scriptures, and the Race for America
Thursday, February 4, 2021
Zakhor: Alex Haley’s Roots, Scriptures, and the Race for America
Featuring: Richard Newton
Revisiting 'An Episode in Wartime Censorship'
Wednesday, February 3, 2021
Revisiting 'An Episode in Wartime Censorship'
Featuring: Ayelet Brinn, Fordham University
A Question of Size: Exercises and Spectacles of Smallness among American Jewry
Monday, February 1, 2021
A Question of Size: Exercises and Spectacles of Smallness among American Jewry
Featuring: Michal Kravel-Tovi, Tel Aviv University

January 2021

Is the Talmud Racist?
Thursday, January 28, 2021
Is the Talmud Racist?
Featuring: Mira Beth Wasserman, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College; Steven Weitzman, University of Pennsylvania
Towards a Reconsideration of Tri-Faith America: Jews and the Limits of Dissent in Postwar America
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
Towards a Reconsideration of Tri-Faith America: Jews and the Limits of Dissent in Postwar America
Featuring: Kate Rosenblatt, Emory University
Star-Crossed: How Jewish Hospitals Ceded Power to Catholic Health Care in the United States
Monday, January 25, 2021
Star-Crossed: How Jewish Hospitals Ceded Power to Catholic Health Care in the United States
Featuring: Ronit Y. Stahl
America's Jewish Question: Citizenship and Liberalism Reconsidered
Thursday, January 21, 2021
America's Jewish Question: Citizenship and Liberalism Reconsidered
Featuring: Lila Corwin Berman, Temple University

December 2020

The Pathos of Chosenness: Who Are the Jews if Not Exceptional?
Wednesday, December 9, 2020
The Pathos of Chosenness: Who Are the Jews if Not Exceptional?
Featuring: Todd Gitlin
Street and Sanctuary: Jews and Visibility in American Public Spaces
Tuesday, December 8, 2020
Street and Sanctuary: Jews and Visibility in American Public Spaces
Sex in American Religious History
Monday, December 7, 2020
Sex in American Religious History
Featuring: Rebecca Davis
Incendiary Allegations: the Construction of Arson as a Jewish Crime in the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century United States
Wednesday, December 2, 2020
Incendiary Allegations: the Construction of Arson as a Jewish Crime in the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century United States
Featuring: Britt Tevis

November 2020

Jewish Responses to Pandemic
Monday, November 30, 2020
Jewish Responses to Pandemic
Featuring: Elazar Ben-Lulu, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Vanessa Ochs, University of Virginia; Gregg Drinkwater; Mike Moskowitz
The Questions We Ask and the Questions We Do Not Ask in National Jewish Population Surveys and Their Implications for Research
Monday, November 30, 2020
The Questions We Ask and the Questions We Do Not Ask in National Jewish Population Surveys and Their Implications for Research
Featuring: Uzi Rebhun, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Tracing the History of a Toxic Present: Antisemitism and Resurgent Ethnonationalism
Thursday, November 19, 2020
Tracing the History of a Toxic Present: Antisemitism and Resurgent Ethnonationalism
Featuring: Alexandra Minna Stern