Lunchtime Learning: “The Myth of the Khazar Conversion” by Shaul Stampfer of Hebrew University in Jerusalem
Monday, October 15, 2012 “The Myth of the Khazar Conversion” by Shaul Stampfer 12:30-1:30pm in Thomson 317 Shaul Stampfer of Hebrew University in Jerusalem will
“Rabbi Judah and the Caesar: Unlikely Stories about an Unlikely Friendship.”
Lunchtime talk in the Classics Dept by Rabbi Oren Hayon, Director of Hillel at UW.
The Invisible Men
The Invisible Men is an award-winning 2012 documentary that tells the story of gay Palestinian men who flee the West Bank.
Stroum Lectures: Prof. David Ruderman
Behind a Best Seller: Kabbalah, Science, and Universal Ethics in Phineas Hurwitz’s Sefer Ha-Brit – Introduction to the Book and its Author
Stroum Lectures by Prof. David Ruderman
Behind a Best Seller: Kabbalah, Science, and Universal Ethics in Phineas Hurwitz’s Sefer Ha-Brit – Introduction to the Book and its Author
Lunchtime Learning: Amelia Glaser, “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Fair: Jewish-Slavic Relations through Literary History”
The stories that Jewish, Russian, and Ukrainian writers tell about their marketplace encounters help us to understand a complex history of coexistence and antagonism in the nineteenth century and after.
JewDUB Talks Premiere!
One room. Four talks. Endless possibilities.
Lunchtime Learning: Leah Garrett of Monash University in Australia, “Jewish American War Novels”
Leah Garrett of Monash University in Australia, expert in Yiddish and Jewish-American literature, will speak on “Jewish American War Novels”
Global Rhythms: Gerard Edery Trio in Concert at Town Hall
SJSP is pleased to offer tickets to this Sephardic music concert at the Town Hall member rate. Click here to buy your discounted ticket!
New Voices in World Jewish Music: Sarah Aroeste
Sarah Aroeste, inspired by her family's Sephardic roots in Greece and Macedonia, has spent the last 10 years bringing her contemporary style of original and traditional Ladino music to audiences around the world.
The 2013 Israeli Elections: Domestic Dynamics, the Peace Process, and Prospects for the Future
A wide-ranging consideration of the 2013 elections in Israel and their impact on the region.
New Voices in World Jewish Music: Galeet Dardashti
As the granddaughter of Yona Dardashti, the most renowned singer of Persian classical music in Iran in his day, and daughter of highly esteemed cantor Farid Dardashti, Middle Eastern vocalist and composer Galeet Dardashti is the first woman in her family to continue her family tradition of distinguished Persian and Jewish musicianship.
Lunchtime Learning: Hannah Mayne of University of Florida, “Making it Normal, Making it Safe: Women’s Voices from a West Bank Settlement”
Hannah will share several ethnographic vignettes and summarize some of the deeper issues that these conversations and stories reveal.
Discovering Seattle’s Sephardic Treasures
Temple De Hirsch Sinai Libraries presents Discovering Seattle's Sephardic Treasures. Professor Devin Naar will offer a glimpse into Seattle's Sephardic heritage
From Paganism to Christianity: Cultural Identities in Horbat Beit Loya, Israel
In this talk Professor Gutfeld discusses a new and unknown site, Beit Loya, that he has been digging since 2005 and that has revealed new