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Thursday, April 8, 2021
For the Public

Funny—You Don't Look Jewish! >

Featuring: Helen Kim and Noah Leavitt

Explore facets of Jewish identity among mixed-race American families.

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Thursday, March 25, 2021
For the Public

“We are the Ethiopian Hebrews, Brothers to the Fair White Jew”: Race, Religion, and Jewish Identity in Harlem >

Featuring: Judith Weisenfeld

How did early twentieth-century Ethiopian Hebrew congregations navigate race and religion?

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Thursday, March 18, 2021
For the Public

Race, Class and Privilege: How Latino Jews Navigate Life in the United States >

Featuring: Laura Limonic

Learn about the lived experience of Latino Jewish immigrants as they work to attain upward mobility.

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Thursday, March 4, 2021
For the Public

Limpieza de Sangre and the “Clash of Civilizations”; Or, What Hath the Soul to Do with Racialized Bodies? >

Featuring: Sylvester A. Johnson

How racialized religion has been central to the West’s targeting of Islam, Judaism, and so-called animism

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Thursday, February 25, 2021
For the Public

Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s >

Featuring: Marc Dollinger

How the Jewish ethnic and religious revival of the 1970s was influenced by the civil rights and Black Power movements that came before

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Thursday, February 18, 2021
For the Public

Religion and White Supremacy in the United States >

Featuring: Sophie Bjork-James

Explore the relationship between religion and white supremacy in the United States.

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Thursday, February 11, 2021
For the Public

Jews and the Religion of Whiteness >

Featuring: J. Kameron Carter

What is the nature of the entanglement of Jewishness with Whiteness?

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Thursday, February 4, 2021
For the Public

Zakhor: Alex Haley’s Roots, Scriptures, and the Race for America >

Featuring: Richard Newton

The politics of American identity are rooted in memory. What do Alex Haley’s Roots and the Jewish scriptural tradition teach us about the constitution of race in the USA?

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Thursday, January 28, 2021
For the Public

Is the Talmud Racist? >

Featuring: Mira Beth Wasserman, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College; Steven Weitzman, University of Pennsylvania

Introducing a series on Jews, Race, and Religion with an exploration of race and racism as they relate to the Talmud.

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Saturday, January 25, 2020
For the Public

Daedalus Quartet >

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