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January 2021
Ruth Tsoffar (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) will give an online talk exploring the sublime space of milk and honey in the Bible and the way it has been mythologized in Israeli discourse
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How has the story of Sodom and Gomorrah as related in the Qur'an and Hebrew Bible shaped the ways Jews, Muslims and Christians thought and continue to think about same sex relationships. Explore this question with Cole Fellow Dr. Brendan Goldman.
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This event is part of the Jackson School of International Studies and its African Studies Program Winter 2021 Lecture Series "Protest, Race and Citizenship across African Worlds."
Find out moreBernadette Brooten (Brandeis University) will give a virtual talk on the ways early Christian authors sought theologically to form gender and other relationships.
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Join Benaroya Fellow Smadar Ben-Natan as she analyzes Israeli protests and their relations to Covid emergency management, civil rights, and political divides in Israeli society.
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Brendan Goldman (Cole Fellow) will give three short talks on Jewish history based on primary sources from the Cairo geniza, a cache of ancient discarded documents.
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Bryan Roby (University of Michigan – Ann Arbor) will give a virtual talk on the works of Black writers who examined Ashkenazi-Mizrahi relations within Israel.
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Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach and Luisa Muradyan discuss their poetry with faculty member Sasha Senderovich.
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Hillary Kaell discusses the modern phenomenon of American Christian pilgrimage trips to Israel/Palestine and how American Christians make sense of these experiences.
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Daniel Schwartz (George Washington University) will give a talk on the history of the word "ghetto" from 16th-century Venice until today.
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Dina Danon (Binghamton University) will discuss her new book, "The Jews of Ottoman Izmir: A Modern History." Books will be available for sale at the talk.
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Julia Watts Belser uses rabbinic Jewish texts on political violence, imperialism, and disaster to grapple with pressing contemporary questions about climate change and environmental justice.
Find out moreJulia Watts Belser uses rabbinic Jewish texts on political violence, imperialism, and disaster to grapple with pressing contemporary questions about climate change and environmental justice.
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