Semi-Annual Speaker Series on Diversity of Jewish Identities

Spring 2023

The Jews of Iran
Sunday, March 5, 2023

🌟 Acclaimed scholar Lior B. Sternfeld will offer an interactive presentation on the Jews of contemporary Iran, the largest population of Jews in a Muslim-majority country in the world. A professor of history and Jewish studies at Penn State University, Sternfeld is the author of Between Iran and Zion: Jewish Histories of Twentieth Century Iran (2018) and co-author of Jews of Iran: A Photographic Chronicle (2022), along with Hassan Sarbakhshian and Parvaneh Vahidmanesh.

Fall 2021

Feeling Jewish: Nostalgia and American Jewish Religion  – Rachel B Gross

Fall 2020

“White and Jewish on the Way to Racial Justice” – Rabbi Amy Eilberg

“Other, Together: A Black Jewish Perspective on Fighting Racism and Antisemitism” –  Rebecca Pierce

Spring 2020

“On Arab Music and Jewish History in North Africa” – Dr. Chris Silver

Fall 2019

“Refugees in America” – Rabbi Lee Bycel

“Uprooted: A Memoir of a Marriage” – Professor Esti Skloot

 

“Hard Core Jews: Woody Allen’s Religious Women and Men” – Dr. Shaina Hammerman

 

“Jews of Uganda” – Rabbi Gershom Sizomu

Fall 2018

“Black Power, Jewish Politics” – (book) Dr. Marc Dollinger in conversation w/ Dr. Reggie Daniels and Dr. Shaina Hammerman

“Chinese and Jewish” – Rabbi Jacqueline Mates-Muchin

Fall 2017

“Jews of Color: In Color”  – Bryan Schwartz Photo Exhibit in Atrium of Kalmanovitz Hall (all semester)

Spring 2017

“Sexual Violence on Campus: From Hook-up Culture to Rape” – Leah Fessler

Fall 2016

“Living on Ohlone Land” – Corrina Gould and Ariel Luckey

 

“Judaisms Book Launch” – Dr. Aaron J. Hahn Tapper 

 

“Torah Told Different Book Launch” – Maggid Andrew Ramer

Fall 2015

“The Hebrew Mamita: Slam Poetry and the Complexity of Jewish Identity” – Vanessa Hidary

 

“Amnesia: A Play about Race and Immigration” – Ariel Luckey

 

“‘Little White Lie’: Movie about the Complexity of African American Jewish Woman’s Social Identities” – Moderated by Be’chol Lashon

 

“‘Saved by Language’: Movie about the Survival and the Dying Language of Ladino” – Moderated by filmmaker Susanna Zaraysky

Fall 2014

“Jews, Blacks, and the Politics of Identity” – Rebecca Walker

 

“The Genesis of Gender” – Dr. Joy Ladin

Fall 2012

“A Jewish Journey between Genders” – Dr. Joy Ladin

 

“Jews, Blacks, and the Politics of Identity” – Yavilah McCoy

 

“The Jews of Africa” – Rabbi Gershom Sizomu

Spring 2012

“Will the ‘Real’ Jew Please Stand Up! Karaites, Samaritans, and Messianic Jews” – Dr. Aaron J. Hahn Tapper

Spring 2011

“Social Justice Shavuot Program: Jews, Gender, and Sexuality” – Noach Dzmura

Fall 2011

“God, Gender, and I: A Jewish Journey between Genders” – Dr. Joy Ladin

Spring 2010

“Jews of Color in Color” – Bryan Schwartz

Fall 2009

“The Jews of Africa” – Rabbi Gershom Sizomu