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- Professor Thomas Pegelow Kaplan recently published a piece in a special issue of the Leo Baeck Institute Year Book.AbstractBy late 1941, some 1,300 Jews had escaped from National Socialist-controlled Europe to the
- Professor Brian Catlos received a Guggenheim fellowship to support his work on his project An Age of Convergence: Christians, Muslims and Jews in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean, a culmination of his
- Professor Mehta's latest piece in The Forward talks about how a major Jewish denomination鈥檚 main seminary will admit and ordain students in interfaith relationships."The majority of new Jewish marriages are interfaith;
- Most ideas about Jewish culture in the United States come from Ashkenazi traditions, but there鈥檚 a vast landscape of Jewish cultures around the world鈥攁nd represented in the U.S. The diversity of American Jews is a major focus
- Professor Samira K. Mehta discusses how words like 鈥渟acred,鈥 鈥渆nsoulment,鈥 鈥渕other,鈥 and 鈥渂aby鈥 have been used by both sides of the culture war over reproductive rights and how they have changed our perception of pregnancy.
- "May is both Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month and Jewish American Heritage Month. Two entirely separate commemorations for two entirely separate communities, right? Think again
- The Know Your Nosh exhibit: Exploring the significance of food in Jewish identityAs part of the university鈥檚 Embodied Judaism Series, the exhibit explores the role of food and agriculture within Jewish cultural, national
- Prof. Pegelow Kaplan's latest book entitled Taking the Transnational Turn: The German-Jewish Press and Journalism Beyond Borders, 1933-1943 recently appeared (in Hebrew) with Yad Vashem Publications in Jerusalem. In
- Eyal Rivlin received the Best Should Teach Gold Award. With this award, Professor Rivlin joins an elite group of dedicated scholars who demonstrate exceptional teaching and academic leadership, exemplifying award
- Thomas Pegelow Kaplan was interviewed by 蜜桃传媒破解版下载 Today for International Holocaust Remembrance Day.You can read the article here.